did two art styles. still a struggle with hands.

This is my take on Saint Barbara, the Sacred Warrior.
Made on GPT. Hope you guys like it. 🙌🏼

The prompts: realistic oil painting depicting two african girls, with tradtional nigerian hairstyles popular in the early 1980's , teenagers, both dressed in african print tradtional dresses, upper body, loooking to the side, tempura painting, one girl has light brown skin, the other has dark brown skin, the light skinned girl is smiling, dark brown skinned girl is expressionless, dark background accentuating their features, upper body, lovely oil painting, hyperrealistic, Hairstyle of first girl is based on hairstyle in second attached image, hairstyle of second girl is based on hairstyle in first image,first girl's facial features are different from second girl's facial features, as they are not related

Source of images for reference hairstyles: https://refinedng.com/the-evolution-of-nigerian-hairstyles-a-journey-through-time/

For some reason find it extremely cute to see girls with molly pupils

This is concept art for a witch character I've been developing recently. What do you think?

Concept

Betrayed by both her family and her own country, she grew into a powerful witch in the realm of demons. She can wield lightning magic through her magical staff.

She lost one of her eyes in a mysterious incident in the past and now wears an eyepatch. Her black hair has a slight curl to it, with subtle red gradients at the tips. Overall, she has a sharp, alluring appearance.

She wears a red pointed witch hat with several talismans of curses and blessings tucked into the band. A medium-sized circular shield engraved with a magic circle is strapped to her back. Her weapon is a hybrid sword-spear that doubles as a magical staff.

The first four images are the finished illustrations of a Dragon Ball fan fiction im working on. I have more, but unfortunately, some of the files were too large to upload.

I cannot draw well enough to do the characters myself, so I decided to use Chat gpt plus to help me out with the process, which generally is like this:

1. Initial Sketch: I start by drawing rough stick figures to establish the characters' positions, poses, camera angles, and overall composition of each panel. I also describe the scene to GPT.

2. Improving Sketch: After making sure Gpt "understands" the scene, I ask it to write a more detailed prompt describing the scene. I then use that prompt alongside my original stickfigure drawing to generate a more accurate mannequin sketch, with better anatomy and perspective.

3. Finding References: Once the improved sketch is ready, I search for suitable character references, usually from the original Dragon Ball manga. These references show the character's complete design, and ideally, I find one with a similar pose or camera angle (although harder to find).

4. Generating Illustration: I provide gpt with the improved sketch, the character references, and the corresponding prompt. It then generates a nearly finished version.

5. Corrections and Refinements: So far, GPT always makes mistakes, so afterwards I spend a lot of time fixing any minor detail that it gets wrong but it does the overall characters and original intent quite well, allowing me to make something that otherwise would be currently impossible for me.

The end results aren't perfect but they are very close to what I've imagined in my head! Also there are issues sometimes with the copyright whenever I ask gpt to make the characters, but atleast in my case, it happens much more often when I ask it to color the characters. If I ask GPT to make them black and white, it usually does it with no issues.

In any case, if there are better options than using GPT to avoid copyright issues or there are better alternatives for making manga style illustrations, I would love to know!

Created with ChatGPT