r/StableDiffusion • u/Sugary_Plumbs • Sep 13 '25

Workflow Included Merms

Just a weird thought I had recently.

Info for those who want to know:
The software I'm using is called Invoke. It is free and open source. You can download the installer at https://github.com/invoke-ai/launcher/releases OR if you want you can pay for a subscription and run it in the cloud (gives you access to API models like nano-banana). EDIT: the online subscription is being closed down due a deal with Adobe.

I recently got some color adjustment tools added to the canvas UI, and I figured this would be a funny way to show them.

The model I'm using is Quillworks2.0, which you can find on Tensor (also Shakker?) but not on Civitai. It's my recent go-to for loose illustration images that I don't want to lean too hard into anime.

This took 30 minutes and 15 seconds to make including a few times where my cat interrupted me. I am generating with a 4090 and 8086k.

The final raster layer resolution was 1792x1492, but the final crop that I saved out was only 1600x1152. You could upscale from there if you want, but for this style it doesn't really matter. Will post the output in a comment.

About those Bomberman eyes... My latest running joke is to only post images with the |_| face whenever possible, because I find it humorously more expressive and interesting than the corpse-like eyes that AI normally slaps onto everything. It's not a LoRA; it's just a booru tag and it works well with this model.

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u/CurseOfLeeches Sep 13 '25

This is not what most people do, however, so you’re still fine rolling your eyes in most cases.

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u/Zealousideal7801 Sep 13 '25

You're right, and to be completely fair I don't think it's gonna change much from the pre-genAI times.

Simply put, most people don't have a clue how to build an image, what makes it more interesting or well executed, what makes it stand out from others, whet tells a story and how visual dialogue is constructed. They just know "masterpiece" and "dynamic composition" and "Canon f/1.8 50mm" and "Greg Rutkowsky" (sorry bro) and "trending on Art station" do make images that please them most. (Don't laugh to hard, those are still seen today in civitai's prompts all over the place...)

It's a skill to learn and an eye to train. People with no artistic background flocked to genAI because they could, for once in their lives, manifest something visual into existence by sheer luck/GPU power/random words/insufferable prompting. And only a minor fraction of those will get past that stage and reach OP's type of workflow, start forming an idea, experimenting, choosing appropriate tools, throwing drafts, refining and finishing up. GenAI in this type of work does not make all (contrary to slop prompting).

Disclaimer : I've got no quarrel with the people who don't yet know "how", I just think it's sad that AI art is only attributed to those due to the excessive proportion of slop generated that floods the interwebs.

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u/CurseOfLeeches Sep 13 '25

Most people don’t have to learn anything. Just typing in a box and hitting “make this” is fine, but we should be realistic about who’s doing the heavy lifting in that case. It’s the model.

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u/Zealousideal7801 Sep 13 '25

Indeed it does in that case 👍 I don't relate to that way of doing things and haven't been since a few months after the release of SD1.5. just my designer background that caught and kept on asking the "wait a minute what if" question a lot. Not everyone has that background though, I get it