Thanks for 5,000 follows
Well, once again this isn’t really about me, but about the people I’ve met along the way. Shoutout to the 4,400 or so bots that help make up this figure, but in particular I want to highlight creators who’ve helped me get to this point- as last time, I am particularly indebted to @ArtifyAI for including so many of my images early on in his OUTSTANDING ART COLLECTION and @Castr0 for his Fantastic AI-Art Collection (links to both at the top of my homepage), plus @vircat for his Strange, scary and creepy collection.
I referenced @ArsMachina, @HailoKnight and @AIDigitalMediaAgency in my “thanks for 2,000” post for taking the time to notice me in my early stages, and more recently @Ethanar and particularly @ChronoKnight have helped me, the latter even taking the time to talk to me on Discord, share his pre-release LoRA images, and donate buzz he didn’t really need to give me to help me.
For the 2,000 people who aren’t bots that follow my alt-account, I’m sorry- feel free to unsubscribe, or at least set your viewing preferences accordingly. It was made for two reasons, firstly because I couldn’t quite scratch the itch of wanting to make reasonably (a very subjective term) high-quality X and XXX images, and also as somewhere to post images I wanted to keep but didn’t think they were quite up to my best- roll forward to now and my most popular image by a country mile is sat on Stu43 rather than this account, I can’t get near 7,000 reactions on my main account. I also thought it would be easier for collection curators like Artify and Castr0 to not have to wade through the stuff on Stu43, but that backfired as they both picked up those images anyway.
As no one in their right mind will read this far anyway, I’d also like to share some of my favourite creators and LoRAs:
Favourite Creators: @zeronwo7829, @aihonobono2023, @DoreenAI, @doc_team; as of now I follow 761 creators on this account and probably a couple of hundred other accounts on my alt
People who’ve had the most influence helping me and to whom I’m most indebted: @ArtifyAI, @Castr0, @ChronoKnight, @ArsMachina, @Ethanar
Best detailers (Flux):
There are a lot of these on Flux, and most work pretty well, so it’s down to personal choice
KFT's HLA Image Enhancer [FLUX] (@kftiger- (ChronoKnight recommended it to me, it’s fantastic)
Velvet's Mythic Fantasy Styles @VelvetS (works for pretty much anything despite the fantasy bit in the title)
Coolest Flux LoRAs (VERY subjective):
OB半写实肖像画 Semi-realistic portrait painting @1jiliguala1, damn this is good
Luminous Shadowscape @andreac75- most of you will know this already, it’s unbelievably awesome
Any of the ink-sketch type LoRAs: InkSketch Flux @Flashfiring, InkPunk Anime Flux @Flashfiring, Ink-style @Flyway, I use them all extensively
Skynet Cyberdyne Systems - by ChronoKnight - [FLUX]- my introduction to ChronoKnight and still one of the most amazing LoRAs out there, crazy that it was trained on one image. It does have issues with the floor in some images but you can work round that.
Sorry to spam people who haven’t switched off notifications for pointless articles, this will be the last from me. A sincere thankyou to anyone who’s responded positively to me or my work, helped me along the way, responded to my images, tipped me, or just been a positive influence on the site and inspired me to make images. It still seems crazy that before Flux came out I was averaging less than 5 reactions per image, so to get 10 featured images seems insane.