One of the top questions we get asked is “how do I get niji to draw my original character?”

After all, as we had briefly touched on in 🌹 The Study of Aesthetics, there are many ways to answer the same text prompt: This is fine if we’re just thinking of ideas, but how do we give niji more guidance if we already have a character in mind? How do we keep drawing the same character repeatedly?

The solution is simple: in order to keep drawing the same character, we must not only TELL niji who the character is, but also SHOW niji who the character is.

In niji, a character identification consists of 2 parts.

For best results, keep the description simple. The description we picked here is “girl pink hair twintails knight armor.” Notice that it’s shorter than the prompt that originally generated the image.

We can test how well the description performs by putting it back through niji, with the following command.

Where the red is the url of the picture of the character, the blue is the description of the character.

The easiest way to get a url of a character is to post the image to a channel in discord. click through to expand the image into the web browser, and then copy the url from the address bar.

Notice that we don’t have to specify the curly hair, the pink ribbon, or the blue eyes: niji is reading that from the image and keeping it consistent through many generations.

(For more information on how to use image prompts, see Midjourney’s documentation) https://docs.midjourney.com/docs/image-prompts

Once we have the description and picture, it’s time to pose this character. Our prompt needs to consist of 3 parts: the url of the picture, the description, and the pose

For example,

The yellow that we have added to the above prompt is the pose.

You can put more than one image link at a time: this is especially useful when you want to put a character into a background. Just like characters, we need an id image and a description for the background.

We have added the url link to the background id image, and the description of the background to the prompt. We also took the extra step of turning her outfit into a ballroom gown.

This easy solution works on both midjourney and niji・journey! For best results, we recommend keeping the prompt simple and let the id images do the talking. (The saying “a picture is worth 1000 words” truly applies here)

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