I decided for this post I'd peel back the curtain just a little bit on some of what my workflow looks like for what I would consider a lower difficulty image. Still requiring some work due to having multiple characters, but not anything overly complex or out of the norm (the more complex/out of the norm, the more Pony hates it and makes you torture yourself to get it to work).
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So I took an image, usually these days I render my own initial image in Illustrious because it can do anything I want more tailor made pose wise, but I loved the pose here so I wanted to try it out.
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I then reconstruct the parts of the image as required and give Pony general direction in other areas.
We get a product that is nearly there after using controlnets... but touchup is required... I'm not going to post every in between iteration though, but you know obviously I tweak things as necessary
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Now there are actually various things I'd still love to correct, but considering it's just fan art I'mnot going to spend any more time on it than I already have. Hope people enjoy.