If there was a board for digital art artists, James Doane would be in the top ten. Can classified his art in figurative or portraitist. However, the special characteristic of his art is that he doesnt do the details, smoothness, fine skin to draw the portrait. In fact, James Doane drew everything with large size of brushes, thick colour and loose rough strokes.
What James Doane did, cannot put into the beautiful group, because there is nothing he drew is beautiful. If there must is a word for it, then it would be wonderful. There is no doubt that James Doane is a master in concept art. He is obviously a master in portrait. However, he also is a magician. Many artists can do painterly, but no one can do the way he did. It is James Doane, the one and only, the magician.
Noted that there will never be the AI model can replace the artist. This is merely at scratch on the surface of the original artworks. Please consider go to his website to buy the print. https://doanedrawings.artstation.com/
Dataset at 400x400 attached.
This is long training and strong model with 9600 steps. Suggested weight .4 to .7.
Model used in gen images https://civitai.com/models/21616/neurogen-v11
Kohya_ss config: 50 repeats, 1 batch, 3 epoch, net dim, alpha, conv dim, alpha 16,16, 8,1.
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