The first step is to gather some sketches and “play around” a bit. ComfyUI stood out as having the most tutorials, videos and Reddit help, so I choose it over ForgeUI or SwarmUI. As for diffusion models, I played around with SD (and dreamshaper, Juggernaut) but FLUX DEV came out and had some great distilled models that run well on my hardware. I mainly run Flux now with a mix of LoRAs I’ve been playing around with.
Original Artwork
The first image is a sketch I did on paper and sharpie, then coloured in Photoshop.
Abe stands with Kabli (a sentient “Tree” who becomes his friend). he is holding the flower that fell through the vortex with him. I wanted to try a realistic fantasy style or a refined “comic” style to get an idea of the direction for the final look I wanted (and why not a Claymation as well?).
Redrawn Artwork Using Flux
