The Dragon Ball Wiki describes Android 18 as a cool and confident character with a sarcastic and biting sense of humor. Attractive, but bulky. Will it be possible to put a smile on her face? Let us start with a first try (Image 1):
Android 18 flying through the sky, in the style of high dynamic range, spiritual posing, erokawaii art, animated illustrations, daz3d, exotic realism, Dragon Ball, vibrant manga, close-up intensity, japanese-inspired –ar 9:16 –style raw –stylize 1000 –niji 6
Another question emerges: is it possible to make her pose sensually, like Bulma? In a nutshell: posing is possible, but it often looks like it’s your very last second, when she’s after you. Very fierce and angry. Let’s try to work on that, too.
Same prompt as before, very nice posing, and even a slight hint of a smile: a rare exception. Most of the time Android 18 remained grumpy with that prompt.
But wait! Something happened here: Andoid 18 smiles, albeit wickedly. I tried to add some tokens that imply notes of sensuality and humor, like “smiling trance spirituality and satisfaction, erokawaii art” (Image 4). The prompt is now:
Android 18 flying through the sky, in the style of high dynamic range, smiling trance spirituality and satisfaction, erokawaii art, animated illustrations, daz3d, exotic realism, Dragon Ball, vibrant manga, close-up intensity, japanese-inspired –ar 9:16 –style raw –stylize 1000 –niji 6
Lo and behold, you sometimes even get a decent smile with Android 18. Same prompt as above (Image 5).
Very high or very low values for the stylization factor (here: 50, previous posts: 1000) emphasize a doll-like appearance of our Android 18 character. So let us tweak that prompt a little more (Image 6).
A stylize value of 250 seems appropriate. Let’s focus on ‘posing’ and do without ‘flying’ for now. This all looks pretty good and would pass on Instagram. Posing comes with photographers, so let us introduce a famous one: Ellen von Unwerth (Images 7-9). The prompt reads now:
[editorial fashion shot, bottom view, full body] + [Android 18 posing] in the style of high dynamic range, smiling trance, spirituality and satisfaction, erokawaii art, animated illustrations, daz3d, exotic realism, Dragon Ball, vibrant manga, close-up intensity, japanese-inspired, toycore, realistic chiaroscuro, leather/hide, high quality, style of fantasy characters + Ellen von Unwerth –ar 9:16 –style raw –stylize 250 –niji 6
Her appearance is still a bit too much 3D for me. Here I tried stylize with a stylize value of 150 and swapped ‘shot’ with ‘illustration’. Now she looks much more cartoonish. I like that much better. Note that a photographer’s name doesn’t necessarily mean that you’ll get a ‘photo’: Ellen adds to the posing and Android’s appearance, and that’s just right. (Images 10 and 11)
[editorial fashion illustration, bottom view, full body] + [Android 18 posing] in the style of high dynamic range, smiling trance, spirituality and satisfaction, erokawaii art, Dragon Ball, vibrant manga, intensity, japanese-inspired, toycore, realistic chiaroscuro, high quality, style of fantasy characters + Ellen von Unwerth –ar 9:16 –style raw –stylize 150 –niji 6
Our prompt has gotten a bit fat. I reduced some parts and increased stylize to 200. This results in a more expressive drawing style (Images 12 and 13).
[editorial fashion illustration, bottom view, full body] + [Android 18 posing] in the style of high dynamic range, smiling trance, spirituality and satisfaction, erokawaii art, Dragon Ball, vibrant manga, intensity, toycore, realistic chiaroscuro, high quality, style of fantasy characters + Ellen von Unwerth –ar 9:16 –style raw –stylize 200 –niji 6
So, back to posing while flying. If we want to make Android 18 look really sexy we again have to alter the prompt. Tokens “editorial fashion glamour shot, bottom view, full body” help a lot here (Images 14-16).
Very nice! But how about Android 18’s smile? She still looks like a supermodel back from the 1990s. Sexy, cool, but no smile.
To make Android 18 smile, we have to pull out the last stop. We take a smiling blonde as an image prompt (find one yourself!) and the magic happens!
[image url] [editorial fashion glamour shot, top view, full body] + [Android 18 posing while flying] + smiling trance, spirituality and satisfaction, erokawaii, Dragon Ball, vibrant anime, intensity, maidencore, realistic chiaroscuro, high quality, style of fantasy characters + Ellen von Unwerth, hyper-realistic illustrations, colorfield –ar 9:16 –style raw –stylize 200 –iw 0.25 –niji 6
Many thanks to @Artedeingenio, @javilopen and @KIAI4RT whose knowledge and tokens came together here.
