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by neonnoodle 84 days ago
- Your example of "consistent characters" has a highly noticeable deviation between the first illustration and the other two (one knee patch on the first drawing, two on the subsequent).

- If you're writing picturebooks, which are usually aimed at younger children, you should have a grasp of the appropriate reading level and audience for each book. Browsing through the example books on the site:

- "The Unscripted Symphony" has a writing style and vocabulary completely unsuited to the target audience. Bizarre things start happening in the illustrations toward the end. There's also no real narrative coherence. It's just not a good story.

- "The Gilded Reckoning of Havenwood" is aesthetically very uneven. What time period is this supposed to be taking place? Clothing is all over the place. On page 6, the text says "a grizzled farmer rose," but the illustration shows the character previously identified as the protagonist's mother. As the pages go on, the illustrations actually become funny for how incongruous they are.

Only the last example, "Puddle Play" would pass the most cursory editorial muster for a children's book.

The illustration generation has a lot of the same problems that most AI-generated artwork does, but the text is truly dreadful and only detracts from whatever "value" might be created by the art.