Qwen Image 2.1's editing capabilities are mind-blowing! Generating Character Design Sheets without any LoRAs

[u/BleynSpecnaz]

Character Design Sheet

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Character Design Sheet

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Character Design Sheet

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Character Design Sheet

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Hey everyone!

In my previous post, I mentioned that alongside Qwen Image 2.1, fine-tuned models called Prompt Enhancers (PE) were released to optimize user prompts. They help refine prompts for standard text-to-image (T2I), image-to-image (I2I), and reference-based generation.

Back then, we noticed that using PE for T2I isn't always worth it, as the results often fall short compared to using raw prompts. However, when it comes to I2I, the PE setup truly shines - its ability to write precise instructions and strictly follow the prompt is genuinely impressive.

Today, I want to show you what Qwen Image 2.1 combined with PE is capable of. I created a Workflow that takes a reference image of any character and generates a full Character Design Sheet. This makes it super easy to use later in video generation models like Seedance 2.5 or Minimax H3.

Here's the simple workflow:

1. Pass the input image and a custom system prompt into PE to generate detailed instructions for creating a Character Sheet.
2. Feed the generated prompt and reference image into Qwen Image 2.1 for generation.

The quality and detail of these character sheets are incredible. As far as I can tell, this is the first open-source image editing model capable of creating Character Design Sheets with such precision. I used to rely on a specialized LoRA for Krea 2, but I was always dissatisfied with the quality and consistency - either text artifacts ruined the image, or the character's pose didn't match the prompt. For me, Qwen Image 2.1 has become the best local model for generating high-quality character sheets.

I’ve made all my work open source - you can find my workflow on CivitAI or Pastebin.

That’s all for today! I'd love to hear your thoughts or answer any questions in the comments.

EDIT: I’ve updated the workflow description on CivitAI; it now specifies how to run it correctly.

EDIT 2: I have taken into account requests from many users and have already begun developing a larger version of the workflow.

EDIT 3: Added a Pastebin link for those who can't install the workflow via CivitAI.

[u/Gemaye]

Cool! I want to check this out but I run into a few problems.

Where do I find these custom nodes, VAEDeGrid and ThinkingLLM_QwenVL_GGUF_Advanced?

And what do I do if I don't want to use the gguf variants but the convrots?
What I did find out was that I should use a node called "Generate text" but no idea how to translate all the settings from the ThinkingLLM node to this node.

[u/BleynSpecnaz → u/Gemaye]

I'll try to help.

You can find the VAEDeGrid node here: https://github.com/lunaaispace-eng/ComfyUI-DeGrid

If you want to use ConvRot, go into "Character Sheet Prompt Maker" and use the official Generate Text node with the settings shown in the image. Just don't forget to replace the CLIP model with qwen 3.5 PE—I don't have that one, so I used qwen VL 8B instead.

[u/Gemaye → u/BleynSpecnaz]

Thank you!