cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/7524114
I won’t say I can’t draw (anyone can put a pencil on paper), but I will say I have no practiced skills.
I’ve never done character art before, but I want to for this game. What alternative ways do you have to represent your character visually?
I’ve considered AI generators, but I don’t want to spend money and time tuning the prompt to match what I want vs what the AI thinks I want.
I’ve also thought about a collage to represent different aspects of my character, then mashing some elements together with GIMP.
I would still think that AI generator are the easiest. Stable diffusion is free (as in free speech, and as in free beer) and runs on your own PC provided you have a GPU. You can check the !imageai@sh.itjust.works community to get some ideas on prompts and the kind of result you can get.
Then there is learning to draw, but expect a couple of years of classes, but someone who went from “can’t draw to can draw a character” know betters how much time is needed