Comment by TeMPOraL
8 hours ago
It's novel if you never played with img2img, including especially several forms of (text+img)2img. Or, if you never tried editing images by text prompt in recent multimodal LLMs.
That said, I spent plenty of time doing both, and yet it would probably take me a while to arrive at this approach. For some reason, the "draw a sketch, have a model flesh it out" approach got bucketed with Stable Diffusion in my mind, and multimodal LLMs with "take detailed content, make targeted edits to it". So I'm glad the OP posted it.
They’re actually quite good at it. I’ve had a number of situations where I’ve wanted to re-render some of my older comics. You can basically tell any SOTA multimodal model (NB, GPT-Image-X) to treat them as storyboards and prompt for a specific style: newprint, crosshatching, monochromatic ink sketch, etc.
Another thing I’ve gotten very used to doing is avoiding the “one-shot” approach. If I generate something and don’t like the results, I bring it into Krita, move things around, redraw some elements, and then send it back in with instructions to just clean it up (remove any smudges or imperfections). The state-of-the-art models can do an astonishing job with that workflow.
https://imgpb.com/eGDJIb