What to expect when using Ai for Comics. I tackle a very hard comic page.

but for far too long I've been letting the AI art engines dictate at least a little bit of the comic story I was writing let's face it it's easier just to go into mid-journey generate a bunch of images around a theme an idea or a character and then pick the ones you want and try to build a story around that well I say no more at least not for this video after this video it's anybody's guess what I will do but today I decided I'm gonna be in charge and so I sat down and not only did I write the whole comic thing myself and not even look at the AI art first I came up with the hardest panels I could think of for AI art to generate greetings my name is Aaron and this is Camp peculiar a channel dedicated to visual storytelling using air all right so we are going to do a standard comic book page today 11 by 17 I crammed 13 panels in there and I tried to make all of those 13 panels challenging for AI art in some way so what I thought we would do is go panel by panel I'll show you what I sketched out and then talk about the process of generating the art for that particular panel how difficult it was I'm gonna give it a grade too and I thought the grading system that I would use would be a ski resort it's raining outside right now means it's probably snowing up in the mountains so I thought we would go with a skiing rating of difficulty green circle is an easy AI art sort of feat or thing to accomplish a blue square is intermediate it's a little more challenging to do with AI art and then you got your black diamond that's like expert that's like Advanced and the rare but not unheard of to put right under the ski lift so that everybody can watch you fall Double Black Diamond all right let's dive in and take a look at what I'm dubbing the hardest one page comic AI has had to generate so far it's not a bad title let's take a look so I just went through here and laid out way too many panels for a one-page comic this is realistically probably three or four pages all shoved onto a page we're going to start with somebody uh sort of sleep in bed and then there's like an alarm clock over to the right and then that alarm clock is going to change time and then he's going to reach over she's going to reach over and smash that alarm clock and then kind of still be you know sleeping or thinking was kind of the idea then the person uh you know is sitting on the side of the bed so we have a perspective change so it's the same room same environments got to be the same bed and then they're standing up and walking so same character standing up walking towards the room then I thought we'd have a lot of fun and we would actually put the character um in the bathroom looking at themselves in the mirror so like a silhouetted over the shoulder looking at them in the mirror brushing their teeth which might be actually the hardest AI art comic prompt that you can have a care looking over a character's shoulder in the mirror while they brush their teeth and then do a close-up of them brushing their teeth going into a closet getting some clothes putting on a suit or some sort of business attire go out and wait for the elevator that's it it's it's a getting up sequence so step two I opened Photoshop and created some Vector sort of panels here that I could move around easily and then kind of uh roughed in those ideas using just the brush tool so there you go that's what I'm considering the hardest comic for air to draw let's see how it went we'll go ahead and bring up the first image over the bed there so we ended up with a guy sleeping and I'll be honest with you I made him I did bald-headed guy or a guy with a bald head so I didn't have to worry about drifting hair color drifting hair length and all that kind of stuff like I was like I'm already doing some challenging stuff let's make this guy bald to try to make that easier a couple things that were difficult here I'm using mid Journey 4 which at the current time can only do squares so getting a rectangular like image like this uh is not possible also the square aspect ratio sort of shrunk everything down so my workflow for this image because because of the square problems was to just generate a bunch of stuff till I got a room that I liked and then I took that image into Dolly and then I used Dolly's canvas editing frame extension stuff to extend the bedroom and then in Photoshop I did some cleanup work to add the hardwood floors or make the hardwood floors come down so three different processes to get what I'm calling a blue square or Black Diamond frame uh generated a mid-journey extend the canvas in Dolly and then generate uh you know a sleeping head until I get something that I like and then cut it out and put there next up we have the two alarm clocks switching from 529 to 5 30. uh it was mid-journey was able to give both of these it always wants to start off with the antique sort of like analog alarm clock with the Bells on it and make it much more elaborate than it really needs to be but once I put in just digital alarm clock that was as easy as it was the time wasn't on there so I added that in Photoshop afterwards so now I think a solid black diamond which is him turning the alarm call block off smashing it with his hand that was this sort of frame here so this panel is constructed from this alarm clock brought in here and then this hand was really hard to generate in the way that I ended up getting it was searching for hand positions that have nothing to do with sleeping or hitting alarm clock I did like catching a football reaching towards something I'm giving that a black diamond next up we have a blue square I guess getting a guy sleeping in bed underneath the covers uh that's not what this is a picture of this is it's just a picture of a guy with his eyes closed and it's the same picture as panel one just shrunken down in panel one and it's an important picture because it sets the tone of what your character is going to look like for the rest of the page and you'll see we get some model drift in here that's pretty pretty bad but this face is you know it's not detailed it is a pretty simple face but it's detailed enough where mid-journey over the course of 13 panels is going to have trouble you're gonna have trouble keeping it on model and keeping those those edges and all that kind of stuff the next panel is this guy supposed to be sitting on the side of the bed just like a normal sitting you know just out right after you've gotten up you sort of got your hands and your palms on the side of the bed and you're thinking about getting out of bed but you're also thinking like why do my feet hurt my feet shouldn't hurt I haven't been walking all night so why do my feet hurt and then and then you stand up and you're like all right this seems like it's going away that's what this this panel is supposed to be of him sitting on the bed uh with just the end of the bed shown there really hard black diamond for sure to generate that particular image the problems with it are many um one is it's really hard to get somebody sitting on a bed facing the camera with their legs kind of draped over Barefoot on the floor the bare feet thing presents a problem the position prints a problem the camera angle presents a problem getting the model that you want in there presents a problem so then I abandoned the idea of having him sitting on a bed all together I'm like I'll do that in Photoshop and I just started thinking like how can I get him in a position where he just looks like he's sitting on a bed so I tried a couch I was sure couch was going to be at like couches you know perfect it's squishy like a bed but then mid Journey was doing this thing where it was making all the couches like one inch off the ground so he was still in this very odd position and then I tried bar stool which always put like a cafe table in front of them so I tried no table I tried chairs so there you go this panel definitely a black diamond and it is two different images the bedroom and the character are separate and they don't like the tone of them don't match very well either so then we have him walking to the bathroom and uh initially this was supposed to be just a side profile shot I think that would have been kind of a blue intermediate a blue square thing to get the side panel shot but in my very initial prompting with this I just got a bunch of these over the shoulder which with this thing that looks like a bathroom and I decided that that is a probably a better shot than just a side profile walking in a room like where you don't know where he's going but it did present a better suggestion to me which I took next up was the brushing the teeth sequence I mean really it was kind of a blue square but it's only a blue square because I sort of abandoned the actual shots that I was looking for getting the character looking like they're brushing their teeth over the shoulder plus the same pose in the mirror is a double black diamond for sure mid-journey which it's like to its credit I guess or it's at least interesting it almost always treats that as like some kind of artistic prompt it's like what do we think about ourselves when we look in the mirror like I look in the mirror brushing my teeth but I see a man who's been beaten down by the the grind of every day like there was always some kind of like artistic thing that I'm like no I just I want an actual mere reflection of whatever's going on and so you can see even what we ended up using not a mere reflection this guy's got his hands up and the other guy doesn't have his hand up but I like the sink in the lower left hand corner I was hoping that was sold it this guy's looks like he's rubbing a marshmallow on his chin which is how they do brush their teeth in a lot of summer camp cultures of which I'm an expert uh but it's really hard I'm taking it as like foam I'm hoping it reads as like you know as like toothpaste foam or whatever so it wasn't hard to get a general idea and then crop in and sort of make something believable but I'm not sure like is he going is this like the beginning of the day of clown school or he's getting ready to shave his head and shave here and this is shaving cream again this is the thing with air it is it is unclear and you're hoping there's enough sort of like immediate mental connection that somebody draws the connection to what's going on then our character enters the Wardrobe still in the white shirt the the sleeves here got a little bit different colored and this is actually sort of an easy transition because we get to get our character a new suit so just a bald head guy in a suit prom whatever you get is what'll get the job done there so him leaving the closet or leaving the apartment or whatever's happening this panel definitely green circle the closet there were a lot of options for that this wasn't the only one the eyes are the eyes of the character brushing their teeth with the marshmallow so I put those eyes over the top just to sort of like prevent the model creep that was happening um here so I don't know Blue Square green circle sort of frames pushing the button for the elevator the 12th panel here I'm going to give it a blue square I think there are lots of options for a hand pushing something you know straight on like that like that doesn't seem difficult to capture but what the button is and and does it reflect like the building this character is in and the elevator that he would likely to be used and this looks as much like he's pressing an intercom Button as anything else I think we all see the the sort of rectangular panel with the two very like you know the circles on top of each other elevator button and when it's really important that that shape that we all sort of know that that are elevator buttons this is sort of where AI art where you have challenges with it is you can get a character pressing a button but to to make sure that the viewer of your comic knows that he's waiting for an elevator it's really important to get those two buttons on stacked on top of each other and that was difficult last but not least a green circle lots of options now for the back side of or watching a bald head guy leave a building or the back side of or something like that pretty easy green circle prom the last thing I did was duplicate the image layer there that has all the images and then put sort of a color treatment on them or like color grading on top of them to have it sort of move from them early morning and then into the closet and then as he's sort of leaving the tone of the image has changed as we get set up for the next page where he would you know run into some Shenanigans in the lobby of this apartment that he lives in so there you go that's my take on the hardest one page comic for AI art to generate if you would have approached some of the prompts differently let me know in the comments below or let me know what you're working on just say Hi also if 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Length: 12min 13sec (733 seconds)

Published: Fri Dec 02 2022