How to keep characters consistent across every page
Character sheets, location sheets and prop sheets give the image model an anchor — so your cast stops drifting between panels.
What it is. Every named character in your series gets a character sheet with a style profile: hair length, colour and parting; eye colour and shape; build; distinguishing marks; the default outfit. Locations and recurring props get sheets of their own.
Why it matters. An image model has no memory of your last page. Without an anchor it redraws your protagonist with new hair, ages her five years, or hands her a different phone in every panel. The sheet is the anchor — it is injected automatically whenever the character's name appears in a scene you generate.
How to do it.
- In your series, create a character sheet for each named character before you generate pages with them.
- Write the style profile like a description for an artist who has never seen your character — concrete and visual. "Short silver bob parted left, amber eyes, thin scar through the right eyebrow, wears a navy pilot jacket" beats "cool-looking woman" every time.
- Do the same for places and objects that recur: a location sheet for the shop your story keeps returning to, a prop sheet for the phone your lead never puts down. Give each one appearance notes and hard continuity rules.
- When you write a beat, use the exact names from your sheets. That reference is what triggers the injection.
- If a character drifts anyway, tighten the sheet — add the detail the model got wrong as an explicit constraint — and regenerate.
Consistency is written down, not remembered. The sheets are where you write it down.