WIP: Jim Steranko (Style)

One of my all-time favourite artists is Jim Steranko, his brief run with Marvel working on Nick Fury and the Agents of SHIELD is immense. His style stood out, refreshing and unique, during the mid-1960s of Jack Kirby's panels.

Steranko was all lines, contrast epic spreads and layouts.

The images below have attempted to capture the style of Steranko, but I'm not all too pleased with them. Perhaps I'm overly critical, since I enjoy his work so much. However, I thought I'd share and hopefully get feedback on where to improve.

Training Details

Image Set: 17
Batch: 3
Epoc: 63
Steps: 630

Prompts: BLIP
Affix: in the style of jim steranko

These were created with a lora strength of 1.0, 0.75 and 0.50. I personal felt the lower the strength the better they looked, which could be linked with using coimc based checkpoints doubling up the style. Maybe.

I can already tell that (for whatever reason) the training has fixated on the epic Nick Fury cover. So perhaps I need to add more samples, or double check the prompting for it.