Rumor has it that a mysterious man suddenly descended upon Gensokyo. He quickly made a name for himself in the Fairy Forest, and soon gathered a band of human ruffians to form a brigand-like gang that plundered the surrounding areas. Some even say that Hong Meiling herself has already faced danger because of them…Naturally, our mistress of the Scarlet Devil Mansion would never tolerate such lawless noise occurring in her neighborhood! And so, our brave and stylish head maid, Sakuya-chan, once again received her mistress’s command and set out. However, this time the gang’s leader turned out to be far stronger than Sakuya had expected. It seems that our “Perfectly Elegant Servant” may find it difficult to remain as elegant as usual…
This illustration set took a full week to complete, and it was also my first attempt at creating with a hybrid method: half hand-drawing and half AI assistance. The Sketch and Inpaint features of SD WebUI were incredibly useful, achieving a level of accuracy in raw outputs that would have been unimaginable in the past. But the cost was an exponential increase in production time, because the base composition and color blocks need to be manually drawn. If possible, I’d really like to avoid using this time-devouring sorcery again…(Though the results are undeniably excellent.)