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Pro tip: I stopped fighting AI art generators and started feeding them my own old scans
I kept getting that same smooth plastic look every time I tried to make a piece, so last month I ran 30 of my own pencil sketches through a free tool called ControlNet instead of a text prompt. The trick was lowering the strength to about 0.4 so the AI traced my actual lines instead of redrawing everything its own way, and the output finally looked like mine. It still takes me an hour of tweaking per image, but that beats the 15 minutes of rage every time it gave me ten fingers on one hand. Has anyone else tried laying their own roughs underneath instead of just typing what they want?
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henrywest4d ago
My buddy does something close to this with his old ink drawings. He dropped the strength even lower, around 0.25, and fed in shots where the lines were real rough and messy on purpose. The AI ended up keeping his wobble and shading habits instead of smoothing it all out. He said the weird part was it copied mistakes he usually fixes, like a little hook on his letter E, which made him laugh.
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