AI Art: Reforging Tutorial

People have been asking, so I wanted to walk through how I create my artwork with AI.

First I start with a pose. This can come from anywhere really. This is from a pack I purchased online. Then a rough Photoshop sketch is created. Then I use control net and SDXL, which I run out of ComfyUI and Stable Diffusion. I generate a lot of images in this phase, often bringing them back into Photoshop to edit and refine. Then I use Z-Image and an image to image technique to add realism, improve backgrounds.

This gets me pretty close, but I go after an anime art style. I have created a custom Lora from my image cbring ollections takes images and converts them to comic line art. Here also are a lot of revisions, comping and tweaking in Photoshop.

Everything up to this point is done locally on my gaming laptop. For a final tweak, I bring the artwork into Nano Banana to fix shadows, imrprove backgorounds and to upscale.