I started this one off with an idea of a green slime dripping down from a cave ceiling and dissolving clothes. I first attempted to create this directly from a prompt. In general, I would call it a complete failure.

1woman, dark cave, holding a torch, dark lighting, vibrant colors, green slime dripping onto body, slime dissolving clothes and leaving skin untouch, transparent green goo, naked, adventurers outfit.

Steps: 20, Sampler: Euler a, CFG scale: 7, Seed: 1785065266, Size: 512x512, Model hash: ed989d673d, Model: dreamshaper_7, Version: v1.4.0

For the next prompt I tried starting with a female adventurer in full gear with the hope that I could selectively remove or add detail later on. I focused on getting a pose, body, and background that would act as a template. The idea seemed to work.

1woman, dark cave, holding a torch, dark lighting, adventurers outfit, leather straps, gold buckles

Steps: 20, Sampler: Euler a, CFG scale: 7, Seed: 2415456623, Size: 512x512, Model hash: ed989d673d, Model: dreamshaper_7, Version: v1.4.0

Working off the last prompt, I added some options for looking upwards and a scared expression. There is a threat hanging from the ceiling, act like it! I just kept generating images until something hit for me. In this case, it was the third image in the third set of 16. 1 good image out of 48, yikes.

1woman, dark cave, holding a torch, dark lighting, adventurers outfit, leather straps, gold buckles, glancing upward, looking scared

Steps: 20, Sampler: Euler a, CFG scale: 7, Seed: 3439610034, Size: 512x512, Model hash: ed989d673d, Model: dreamshaper_7, Version: v1.4.0

Next I moved to img2img and started revising. The first idea was to improve the general pose and increase chest size since it was going to be a main focal point, (Also, boobs.) After 3 images, I added “busty” as a parameter.

1woman, dark cave, holding a torch, dark lighting, adventurers outfit, leather straps, gold buckles, looking upward, scared, busty

Steps: 150, Sampler: Euler a, CFG scale: 7, Seed: 4154182464, Size: 512x512, Model hash: ed989d673d, Model: dreamshaper_7, Denoising strength: 0.53, Version: v1.4.0

The next round of revisions moved to inpainting to try and target the areas I wanted to improve. The first was the breasts and the straps across the chest. I wanted these to be visually interesting both intact and when dissolved.

After that, I moved to the shoulder and breast area and finally added the green slime in. I changed the prompt and played with new images and areas to improve the translucence and green goop clusters. I also added areas such as the side of her head and a few drips onto her arm, pouch, and backpack.

After that, I moved onto improving the face. I used the original prompt on her face, but instantly changed it because WOW is that bad.

green translucent slime dripping from above and dissolving clothes. Naked woman.

Steps: 20, Sampler: Euler a, CFG scale: 7, Seed: 3687944271, Size: 512x512, Model hash: ed989d673d, Model: dreamshaper_7, Denoising strength: 0.53, Mask blur: 4, Version: v1.4.0

The last round of revisions involved fixing the face to have some normal looking eyes and an expression of concern. This wasn’t suppose to be life-threatening, but she is not in for a good adventure at this rate.

I also finally adding some drips from the ceiling to show where the slime came from. I like to imagine the slime is nearly translucent until it detaches and starts dissolving things. Perhaps the heat from her torch caused it to attack and that is why she is holding it low now?

There were two images that just… didn’t change anything really? Whatever, I eventually got some very nice drips that really helped to tell the story here.

a beautiful woman with normal eyes looking upward, dark lighting, holding a torch, looking scared

Steps: 20, Sampler: Euler a, CFG scale: 7, Seed: 2803977051, Size: 512x512, Model hash: ed989d673d, Model: dreamshaper_7, Denoising strength: 0.61, Mask blur: 4, Version: v1.4.0

transparent green slime clinging to the ceiling and dripping downwards

Steps: 20, Sampler: Euler a, CFG scale: 7, Seed: 1384636159, Size: 512x512, Model hash: ed989d673d, Model: dreamshaper_7, Denoising strength: 0.61, Mask blur: 4, Version: v1.4.0

The last set was to scale it up a bit. The first upscaler I used was Lanczos which worked, but made it feel more blurry.

The second upscaler I used was R-ESRGAN 4x+ Anime6B which gave the whole thing a more painterly look I quite like.

If you made it here, I hope this was informative for my process. The final image really was exactly what I wanted, minus some dramatic camera angles but those can be real pain to achieve.