I have written a book and would like to add pictures. I am also poor and can't easily pay a bunch of money, especially when I expect this book to make no money at all. It is an adult themed horror book and I want pictures like in The Wizard of Oz. Some of the characters, who are mostly women, are bi, one is possibly trans, it's a book that a conservative would never want to illustrate for many reasons. There are LGBT themes and also offensive shocking and strange themes. I would be fine if AI helped generate them, but I need the characters to look consistent across the book. I almost wish I could use AI to draw the pictures, and tried experimenting, but could not get AI to generate the faces to look consistently the same. (AI sort of did whatever it felt like doing, instead of drawing as requested.) I also want color images. I'd like them to look realistic. I have ideas about what the characters look like. This isn't a comic book... although it could become one someday.
I have no idea where to look. My hatred for Facebook and Reddit is EXTREME. I hate fucking shit where it's some centralized asshole blocking everyone forever and/or requiring all sorts of bullshit.
Does anyone at lemmy have any ideas?
Yeah, perhaps I should just release the book without pictures. :-(
I am poor, I can't waste money, and statistically books sell barely anything. I doubt I would recoup.