Creating consistent characters throughout your children's book is essential for keeping readers engaged and immersed in your story. While AI technology may not be perfect yet, with descriptive and consistent image prompts you can significantly improve the likelihood of generating consistent storybook illustrations of your characters.
AI Image Generator Text Prompts
Step 1: Detailed character descriptions
The first step is to develop a detailed character description that you will use in the AI image generator tool to produce an image of your storybook character. Consider aspects such as physical appearance, clothing style, facial expressions, and any unique features that make your character stand out.
Step 2: Use the AI Image Generator 'Revised Prompt' feature
The second step is to use the Revised Prompt feature. After you create an image with StoryBookWriter's AI Image Generator tool, you will see a revised prompt at the bottom of every image generated. This revised prompt offers a more detailed description of your storybook character. You can then reuse this revised prompt in your next image prompt to create another consistent image of your storybook character. You can change the prompt slightly to show your character in a different scene or doing a different action.
AI Image Generator Example
For example, you may write the following image prompt "Create a storybook character of a guy with dark hair and brown eyes. He wears jeans and a button down shirt with a tie" and click Generate Image.
StoryBookWriter's AI image generator tool produced the above image and the following revised prompt that offers a lot more detail: "Create a highly detailed storybook illustration of a Caucasian adult male character with dark hair and brown eyes. This character is casually dressed in jeans and a button-down shirt, complemented by a tie. His overall appearance suggests an everyday working man, exuding a friendly energy.."
Then for the next image, you can copy and paste the revised prompt into the AI Image Generator tool's image prompt and add this to it "Create a highly detailed storybook illustration of a Caucasian adult male character with dark hair and brown eyes. This character is casually dressed in jeans and a button-down shirt, complemented by a tie. His overall appearance suggests an everyday working man, exuding a friendly energy. Show the character jogging in a residential neighborhood."
StoryBookWriter's AI Image Generator tool produced the above image using the revised image prompt and the additional action text. As you can see, the character in this image closely resembles the character from the first image. While it's not perfect, slight variations can be understandable depending on the character's expression and activity the character is engaging in. Also, by continuing to fine tune the image prompt, you can continue to improve the character consistency that the AI image generator tool produces.
With a little bit of patience, you will be on your way to creating captivating illustrations that bring your story to life and engage readers. And as a reminder, if you have an image that is almost perfect, try editing it with photo editing software instead of discarding it. Here is a guide on easy ways you can edit your AI images to make them perfect.