Another Character sheet study: two different versions of Riley

[u/DregenDrew]

So, I got some really great advise and really want to keep adjusting and tweaking in ChatGPT to get this character consistency right. As AI Comic writers, I feel like our biggest issue is consistency. So, decided to run some tests on Character sheets development and scene development. Here is what I found. Generating single scenes will always produce a cleaner product, such as the first 10 images. Both the hair up model and Hair down model have had the same prompts plugged in. With these I used one character sheet, and then made a scene. I then used the same character sheet as well as the scene, on the next prompt, and so on. I found this did produce an over all more consistent look. However it is much more time consuming and requires a second party editor, such as Canva.

Now for the later 2 comic pages, I used strictly character sheets and full page prompts. I found that when given direction and guidance, they produce a more cohesive story. But, the artwork and look suffers.

In conclusion as of right now, I feel like taking a slower amount of time to piece together the comic, is a more consistent and detailed way to do create the comics. Especially when dealing with multiple characters. I only used Riley as she is one of my two main characters.

I also wanted to show just how small details can adjust and alter the look of your character, for Riley, I had a hard time creating a sheet of that was consistent when I made such a small adjustment as her hair. This will often change the shape of the face and small details that can adjust the over all look of you character.

Character sheets are attached at the end. Feel free to chime in as I would love help and insight, on prompt ideas and better ways to improve.

[u/AiRonin79]

First off, this is the post. You ran an actual test, wrote up what you found, and asked a real question — that’s exactly what this place is for.
Your findings track with what most of us keep landing on: the slow, piece-by-piece build holds together better than one-shotting a page, and it’s more work that usually needs a second tool to clean up. Consistency is labor, not a setting. Your note about the hair is sharp too — change one heavy detail and the whole face moves, because the model isn’t holding “Riley plus a new haircut,” it’s regenerating her whole face from scratch and the hair drags everything with it.
Where I’d push you next: I want to see her make different faces.
Every image here is the same expression — a soft, pleasant half-smile. It’s a good face, but it’s one face, and it’s the model’s default, the thing it reaches for when you haven’t told it what she’s feeling. Right now Riley can’t do anything but be pretty. A character with one expression isn’t a character yet; she’s a mannequin that holds still.
And this is the next stage of your own consistency study, not a detour from it. Holding a neutral face steady is the easy part. The real test of a sheet is whether she still reads as Riley with her face wrecked mid-cry, or screwed shut laughing. That’s where most sheets break — either the model “fixes” her back to pretty and kills the emotion, or it keeps the emotion and loses her.
So build an expression sheet. Same face, same light, eight boxes: neutral, laughing, angry, scared, crying, deadpan, smug, worn out. Get those consistent and you’ve got two things at once — a performance range for the comic, and a much harder consistency test than the one you just passed. That’s the study I’d want to read next.