Self-Portrait

So, the finished self portrait actually looks like me. That’s particularly impressive as I didn’t use any actual images of me in the prompts. The reason for that is I haven’t figured out how to do that. I’ve played around with some image prompts but I don’t think I’m doing it right and need to study up a bit on best practices. Meanwhile, I achieved this likeness just by asking for variants and upscaling the images that had the strongest resemblance, i.e. the shape of the nose, the shape of the face. And since I figured the eyes might be the toughest, I wrote “sunglasses” into the prompt. I was getting close but he was too young. Adding “wrinkles” did the trick.

"wrinkles, iridescent chromatic colour-shifting, dynamic lighting, 40-year-old filipino man, futuristic cyberpunk, purple rim light, neon green rimmed sunglasses, in the style of takehiko inoue, foggy, futuristic cyberpunk, insane amount of detail, b

"wrinkles, iridescent chromatic colour-shifting, dynamic lighting, 40-year-old filipino man, futuristic cyberpunk, purple rim light, neon green rimmed sunglasses, in the style of takehiko inoue, foggy, futuristic cyberpunk, insane amount of detail, bladerunner background, octane render, 8k, hyper detailed, studio lighting, 3d render, hyper realism, photo realistic man"

"iridescent chromatic colour-shifting, dynamic lighting, 40-year-old filipino man, futuristic cyberpunk, purple rim light, neon green rimmed sunglasses, in the style of takehiko inoue, foggy, futuristic cyberpunk, insane amount of detail, bladerunner

"iridescent chromatic colour-shifting, dynamic lighting, 40-year-old filipino man, futuristic cyberpunk, purple rim light, neon green rimmed sunglasses, in the style of takehiko inoue, foggy, futuristic cyberpunk, insane amount of detail, bladerunner background, octane render, 8k, hyper detailed, studio lighting, 3d render, hyper realism, photo realistic man"

"iridescent chromatic colour-shifting, dynamic lighting, 40-year-old filipino man, futuristic cyberpunk, purple rim light, neon green rimmed sunglasses, in the style of takehiko inoue, foggy, futuristic cyberpunk, insane amount of detail, bladerunner

"iridescent chromatic colour-shifting, dynamic lighting, 40-year-old filipino man, futuristic cyberpunk, purple rim light, neon green rimmed sunglasses, in the style of takehiko inoue, foggy, futuristic cyberpunk, insane amount of detail, bladerunner background, octane render, 8k, hyper detailed, studio lighting, 3d render, hyper realism, photo realistic man"

"foggy, close-up portrait, photography, 40-year-old filipino man, futuristic cyberpunk, insane amount of detail, bladerunner background, iridescent chromatic colour-shifting, dynamic lighting, octane render, 8k, hyper detailed, studio lighting, 3d re

"foggy, close-up portrait, photography, 40-year-old filipino man, futuristic cyberpunk, insane amount of detail, bladerunner background, iridescent chromatic colour-shifting, dynamic lighting, octane render, 8k, hyper detailed, studio lighting, 3d render, hyper realism, photo realistic man"

The Variants

"hyper realism, photography, iridescent chromatic colour-shifting, dynamic lighting, 40-year-old filipino man, futuristic cyberpunk, purple rim light, neon green rimmed sunglasses, in the style of takehiko inoue, foggy, futuristic cyberpunk, insane a

"hyper realism, photography, iridescent chromatic colour-shifting, dynamic lighting, 40-year-old filipino man, futuristic cyberpunk, purple rim light, neon green rimmed sunglasses, in the style of takehiko inoue, foggy, futuristic cyberpunk, insane amount of detail, bladerunner background, octane render, 8k, hyper detailed, studio lighting, 3d render, hyper realism, photo realistic man"

"in the style of takehiko inoue, foggy, close-up portrait, photography, 40-year-old filipino man, futuristic cyberpunk, insane amount of detail, bladerunner background, iridescent chromatic colour-shifting, dynamic lighting, octane render, 8k, hyper

"in the style of takehiko inoue, foggy, close-up portrait, photography, 40-year-old filipino man, futuristic cyberpunk, insane amount of detail, bladerunner background, iridescent chromatic colour-shifting, dynamic lighting, octane render, 8k, hyper detailed, studio lighting, 3d render, hyper realism, photo realistic man"