(barack obama:.5),running,blue,orange,red, by Frank Miller,style of sin city

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This is really to showcase another neat phenomenon I’ve run into – I didn’t spend time trying to find the coolest image I could find.

I really like hard-light, black-and-white pen-and-ink drawings (as, with the above example, Frank Miller did with Sin City). And Stable Diffusion can do a pretty good job of imitating those styles. However, those can be a little intense, very high-contrast, be a bit overwhelming to the viewer.

It looks like, if one adds a few color names to an image, Stable Diffusion winds up starting with the black-and-white art style, but will then fill in limited amounts of color…and does so in reasonable places.

Here’s the same prompt without the color terms:

(barack obama:.5),running, by Frank Miller,style of sin city

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A few other examples, starting with black-and-white styles, and using the same prompt:

(barack obama:.5),running,blue,orange,red, by Alex Toth

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(barack obama:.5),running,blue,orange,red, by Steve Ditko

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These aren’t ideal images – it’d probably be better to reduce the “barack obama” weight further so that the more-detailed, photographic appearance doesn’t noticeably come out in the final image on the face, something I’ve observed happening with a number of images of politicians. But they do a pretty good job of demonstrating the effect.