Issues with Draw Things
Hi,
I have been playing a bit with Draw Things, and I am a bit confused. I am new to this app (and image generation as well), so sorry if this is a basic question. What I want is pretty simple: I want to generate a quick, semi decent image to use as a reference for a quick sketch (I am not very good at drawing and I kind of need to have a reference). A website like craiyon is great as I can generate a 180kb image in around 5 secs; as a matter of fact it gives me that image and like 20 more to choose from. With DT the whole thing is completely different. I have downloaded some models based on what I have read online, and they all take ages compared to craiyon (2-3 minutes). The images are heavier (~1.8 Mb), which is to expected, but this does not seem to reflect too much on the final quality of the image.
Examples:
I tried the following prompt on all the examples that follow, just as an experiment:
A realistic, high-resolution image of a man playing an acoustic guitar while sitting next to a large oak tree at dusk. Behind him, a rustic wooden cabin with a warm, faintly lit window. The scene is illuminated by the soft, golden-purple light of twilight, with long shadows and a calm, serene atmosphere. The man is dressed casually in plaid or denim. Detailed textures: bark on the oak tree, wood grain on the cabin, and stubble or expression on the man’s face. Shot from a slight low angle, cinematic composition, natural colors.
This is craiyon (178kb; 1344X768, and as I mentioned before, it took like 5 seconds)
This is Juggernaut XL v9 (Steps:16, Text Guidance:5, Strength 100, shift 1, batch 1):
Which is good, (except for weird left shoe, I suppose) but it took 3 minutes (!) to complete (1024X1024, 1.8MB)
Stable diffusion v2.1 took also 3 minutes for this image, completely messing up the face:
I tried Stable diffusion again, giving it a guidance of 50 instead of 5, resulting in this: (?!?!?!)
And last, I tried SDXL Base v1.0 (8 bit). Just like Stable Diffusion, it decided that realistic images are a thing of the past and that real beauty is in the abstract:
Note: If I reduced the number of steps on Juggernaut XLv9 I get a gray image, not too different from the one above.
Am I doing something wrong? Is is possible to achieve what I see in craiyon e.g. a decent picture given to me in 5 seconds, in Draw Things?
Thanks for the help