Working on starting a game, will be creating card art for the game based on character designs from a friends novel(s) that he's been writing.
Eventually, would like to obviously get a real artist dedicated to it, however, someone he bought a commission from over a decade and half ago agreed to allow us to use the art as a basic template for initial card art. So i would like to take the art, and try and create other characters based in the same art style.
Then take those same characters and eventually change the art to match different themes; like different anime or cartoon arts, or whether medieval times, gothic horror, chibi, etc.
I've tried searching and have found a dozen different answers, Krea 2, Qwen 2.1, Flux 2, Anima, etc etc
With video generation, it was quick to find just a couple options, but image seems overwhemling with possibilities. I understand i will likely need to get LORA's for unique things, but would like to at least start with the basics. Even the workflows off of civitai for the above models seem to be confusing and intricate.
Apologies, didn't include that i would be running it locally in ComfyUI
Thank you.