[woolion]

I didn't go very far with my own benchmarks because my results were just so bad. But for example, here's a line art with the instruction to color it (I can't remember the prompt, I didn't take notes).

https://woolion.art/assets/img/ai/ai_editing.webp

It's original, ChatGPT, Flux.

Still, you can see that ChatGPT just throw everything out and does not do a minimal attempt at respecting style. Flux is quite bad, but it follows the design much more (although it gets completely confused by it) that it seems that with a whole lot of work you could get something out of it.

[vunderba]

Yeah so NOVEL style transfer without the use of a trained LoRA is, to my knowledge, still a relatively unsolved problem. Even in SOTA models like Nano Banana Pro, if you attach several images with a distinct artistic style that is outside of its training data and use a prompt such as:

"Using the attached images as stylistic references, create an image of X"

It's fall down pretty hard.

https://imgur.com/a/o3htsKn

[woolion]

I'm pretty sure that some model at least advertised that it would work. I also think your example was in the training data at some point least, but I suspect these styles are kind of pruned when the models are steered towards "aesthetically pleasing" outputs which are often used as benchmarks. Thanks for the replies, it's quite informative.