Artist Experiments
Causing science to happen while generating non-garbabe waifus
Ground truth, generated without any artist in the prompt.
Preamble
I wanted to test the abilities of what NovelAI can do in terms of reproducing different art styles. Both in terms of how names of games influence the final result as well as other prompts such as artists, effects and the like. In this experiment I tried out different artists, in total 252 different artists have been tried with the exact same prompt and the exact same settings in terms of seed, scale, steps, options and output size. I’ve gathered names from a multitude of sources: artists I know, anime/manga, top lists of artists online, random artists from huge lists from Wikipedia.
Generation
These have been created in two batches, the first batch only containing Japanese artists and mangaka (japanese cartoonist). The second batch with random artists from all around the world and from all kinds of different genres and eras. This have lead to a heavy bias towards Japanese artists in these results, which is in large part due to me wanting to test the Anime/Manga styles NovelAI’s image generator creates.
portrait of a beautiful teenager, small breasts, intricate dress, soft smile, red lips, ginger hair, green eyes, realism, {{{{drawn by ______}}}}
Model used is NAI Diffusion Anime (Full), Steps 28, Scale 11, Quality Tags On, Seed 1631491872, Undesired Content Low Quality + Bad Anatomy.
You may notice that a lot of these images are very similar to one another. My understanding is that this is because there is no entry in the AI model for that specific artist. This can also be due to the fact that the influence of the entry in the AI model is very weak in the final result.
In total I've identified around 50 artists that are represented by more or less the exact same image.
Accents and spelling
Some names have different accents and ways of spelling them and I've chosen to select the output that influenced the end result the most. For instance, I've used Giger instead of H. R. Gieger and Zdzisław Beksiński instead of Zdzislaw Beksinski.
Additional input
I've recieved additional input from other people in the r/NovelAI subreddit, I've marked those with an 🛈. Hovering the 🛈 will show the name of the person who supplied the image. These are genereated using the exact same settings as I've used.
u/Abstract_Albatross
Diffusion image generators use CLIP models. And this site -- now only available as a google drive archive -- lists a huge number of artists, and how strongly these different models recognize them. So u/Abstract_Albatross stripped out the numbers for the ViT-L/14 CLIP model (the one Stable Diffusion uses) and produced a list of all the artists with a 50% or better recognition score.
Using my original prompt and seed u/Abstract_Albatross generated images for 555 artists, although there are some duplications and overlaps. u/Abstract_Albatross's original generations can be accessed here.
u/Abstract_Albatross mentioned in their original post that I'm welcome to use the images for this page, so I did just that.
Aaron Douglas Abstract_Albatross
Adam Martinakis Abstract_Albatross
Adolph Gottlieb Abstract_Albatross
Agnes Bernice Martin Abstract_Albatross
Agnes Lawrence Pelton Abstract_Albatross
Albert Bierstadt Abstract_Albatross
Alberto Giacometti Abstract_Albatross
Alberto Vargas Abstract_Albatross
Albrecht Dürer Abstract_Albatross
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