The “self-portraits” I’ve posted recently were all done with prompts starting with “slightly-cartoonish illustration” to set the style. I also used this phrasing for the Diablo 4 barbarian illustration below them, which isn’t cartoonish at all.

So why is it that the moment I start to describe them in detail, to add variety, my pinup gals go full-bore big-eye anime style? Either 2D or Frozen-style 3D?

TL/DR: mentioning eyes at all, even just their color, is enough to do it. The expressive LLM-generated mood descriptions I’ve been experimenting with were also contributing (and creating some contradictory pose instructions, which I’d already made a note to fix), but all it takes to turn “slightly-cartoonish illustration of a woman cooking” into pop-eyed anime is adding “with blue eyes”.

The following images were all done with the same settings (Qwen Image, CFG 6.5, 42 steps, seed 1019441477):

A slightly-cartoonish illustration of a woman cooking:

A slightly-cartoonish illustration of a woman with blue eyes cooking:

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A highly-detailed slightly-cartoonish illustration of a woman cooking:

A highly-detailed slightly-cartoonish illustration of a woman with blue eyes cooking:

A highly-detailed, intricate, slightly-cartoonish illustration of a woman cooking:

A highly-detailed, intricate, slightly-cartoonish illustration of a woman with blue eyes cooking:

The change in framing and angle are interesting, but not relevant to the style shift. Pretty much any change to a prompt will affect seemingly-unrelated parts of the resulting image; the surprise is that the change is consistent across the three pairs, which is a Qwen thing.

Interestingly, rephrasing that last one as “…woman cooking. She has blue eyes.” produces an image that differs only very slightly, changing the color of her dress and the position of the utensil handles. Even a completely different seed produces a very similar result. This is why I started producing highly-randomized prompts for Qwen Image in the first place.

Going back to my barbarian gal…

Slightly-cartoonish illustration of a sexy, muscular female barbarian warrior in a fur bikini:

Slightly-cartoonish illustration of a sexy, muscular female barbarian warrior in a fur bikini. She has blue eyes:

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