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FLUX.1-schnell vs SD3.5: Watercolor paintings

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premi_ai
Dec 8, 2024
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FLUX.1-schnell vs SD3.5: Watercolor paintings

It is early days for me in the field of generative ai. So, I am experimenting on my local machine with RTX 4080 SUPER. Most of these experiments use stock workflows suggested/ provided by the models.

I am neither an artist or student of art. It is difficult to provide references to specific styles. I am mostly driven by what looks appealing as I browse the artwork here. Though, I have tried hands are few LoRAs over past couple of days.

Today, I came across this: https://civitai.com/images/24631665

So, I wanted to try a variation of this locally... and see where I get without the LoRA mentioned here. It so happened that I had a FLUX.1-schnell workflow opened. I pasted the prompt and the image was just not what I expected. Repeated attempts gave similar (disappointing) results... So, tried on SD3.5 Medium. This time I wasn't disappointed.

Prompt

This is the prompt that I started with:

magnificent watercolor painting, high quality image of a beautiful peasant girl in india that wears a scarf around her hair, luminous eyes light her face. her mood is joyful, dynamic camera angle

Images from FLUX.1-schnell

Here are 2 images generated - that don't appear to be watercolor painting - but for (possibly) the background:

Assuming that word "magnificent" in the prompt could be misleading, I removed and tried again. But there was no difference.

Images from SD3.5 Medium

With original prompt, this is what I got:

These are definitely watercolor, but the overall mood is warm, but not necessarily cheerful.

So, changed the prompt to:

magnificent watercolor painting, high quality image of a beautiful peasant girl in india that wears a scarf around her hair, luminous eyes light her face. she is cheerful, dynamic camera angle

...and tried again - to get this:

Conclusion

Even though I have uploaded handful images here, overall analysis is based on about 100 images across both models.

  • FLUX.1-schnell just didn't follow 2 keywords watercolor and painting in the prompt. The overall mood of the images was definitely joyous.

    • As additional step, I substituted watercolor with oil. But, this didn't seem to make much difference.

  • SD3.5 Medium was true to spirit for for both keywords watercolor and painting. The mood in images is warm, but not necessarily joyous.

    • Perception of mood is quite subjective. But, the expressions here were mostly subdued. (While creating the images above for this article, I got much better results with cheerful than original attempts.)

It is also quite possible that I missed something quite obvious when working with FLUX.1-schnell.

Thoughts?

and/or

Tricks to get better paintings off the stock FLUX.1-schnell model..

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