hushpiper

...I have a problem: I'm spending far too much time on Artbreeder.

I can't help it! I keep fiddling with sliders, and it just keeps spitting out these faces that look like they could be actual people. Like, check out this girl! Where did she come from? I wasn't looking for her, but here she is!

Or this girl here, who looks strangely familiar:

Or Mr. Fascinating Coloration over here:

I also figured out that if you put the "face" slider all the way one direction and the "style" slider the other way, you can essentially copy skin/wrinkles/coloration onto another facial structure--which comes out especially cool with some of the more realistic skin tones. I ended up making an entire family of blue-eyed freckled redheads that way (down near the bottom of my profile), and several iterations of "smiling girl with tied back hair". (And their younger cousin, "young smiling girl with long hair".)

I spent a lot of time trying to fiddle around and make some characters I know--I started out with Historia (my fave from Attack on Titan), who actually wasn't that hard to get:

And then I spent a really excessive amount of time trying to create my CritRole-adjacent D&D character, Solène, an Aasimar sorcerer-cleric. She is supposed to have "coppery blond" hair in voluminous curls, speckled with so many freckles it looks like she got spattered with paint, and a general look as though she just came in out of the sun, even in winter. Well, the freckles aren't quite right, and I went back and forth on the exact hair color, but I settled on this for that little quirk in the corner of her mouth: