AI synthetic Touhou fan-art: Aya Shameimaru, Megumu Iizunamaru, Hatate Himekaidou water-playing at the river of Yokai mountain - Tool: ChatGPT plus

The heatwave effect still prolongs here, and I have been too tired of my main research task to anything productive other than very essential now. 

Yet, I still want to keep posting my Touhou Project fan-art as the Touhou Project popularity poll is going to be open from 21 to 28 August this year.

Then, I have asked ChatGPT plus to redraw one of my old illustration following the prompt shown below. 

Aya Shameimaru, Megumu Iizunamaru & Hatate Himekaidou

 

Click the image to enlarge.

The image is posted on my pixiv page:https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/148487348

Original image:
Pixiv — Artwork 121317998
Aya Shameimaru, Megumu Iizunamaru & Hatate — Original Blogger Post

 

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Mountain Stream Tengu Illustration Prompt

Overall Art Direction

Redraw and refine the supplied illustration as a highly polished contemporary Japanese anime illustration with luminous, richly rendered colouring, delicate linework, soft dimensional shading, and an exceptionally refined digital-painting finish.

Use the attached image as the main visual basis and preserve its:

• overall mountain-stream setting

• three-character arrangement

• left-to-right storytelling

• pose relationships

• facial expressions

• colour atmosphere

• water rendering

• lighting direction

• dynamic energy

• humorous mood

• camera distance

• approximate character scale

• overall spatial staging

Keep the image as close as possible to the attached version while correcting the remaining anatomical and design issues described below.

Render all three figures clearly as adult winged mountain-spirit women with mature proportions and a clean, polished contemporary anime finish.

Their designs should remain originalised folklore-inspired fantasy designs rather than explicitly named copyrighted characters.

Maintain the original visual concept and humorous character interaction while improving:

• anatomy

• proportions

• facial construction

• hands

• limbs

• hair flow

• wings

• swimwear construction

• accessories

• lighting

• skin rendering

• water effects

• environmental detail

wherever necessary for a more natural, balanced, and professionally illustrated result.

Allow small adjustments to posture, limb placement, hair, wings, clothing, and accessories where necessary to correct anatomy or strengthen visual balance, but do not fundamentally alter:

• the original scene

• left-to-right character arrangement

• storytelling

• camera placement

• pose relationships

• existing figure-size relationships

Do not introduce exaggerated perspective, dramatic wide-angle distortion, or major character repositioning simply to create additional depth.

Preserve the source image's moderate perspective and character-scale balance:

left reporter slightly closer → centre commander at the primary middle distance → right photographer modestly farther back

The differences in apparent scale should remain restrained and consistent with the reference.

Use smooth and sophisticated contemporary anime rendering with:

• carefully controlled line weight

• thin-to-medium tapered outlines

• subtle painterly gradients

• clean colour transitions

• soft ambient occlusion

• delicate reflected colour

• finely layered highlights

• softly dimensional form modelling

• controlled environmental reflections

• luminous warm skin tones

• transparent water droplets

• damp hair highlights

• warm sunlight interacting with cool stream reflections

Avoid excessively flat cel shading.

Avoid heavy photorealism.

The characters should possess a gentle three-dimensional presence while remaining unmistakably anime in design.

A major visual priority should be the interaction between:

soft luminous skin + transparent water droplets + bright summer sunlight + damp hair + reflected blue-green stream light