80's Style Valentine's

Valentine's themed work focusing on getting an 80's anime aesthetic.

I took a rough 512x512 image and did my best to fix flaws left by the AI such as the hands, some of the shading on the neck, the fingers, and some lip/teeth detail. After upscaling, I used a script to take an alpha crop of the image and added color and lighting effects on a separate layer for the heart border. A duplicate of the image was placed on another layer at low opacity and Gaussian blur was added.

Time from inception to realization: 1 hour
Tools used: AUTOMATIC1111 WebUI, Depth aware img2img mask by Extraltodeus, GIMP
Artist prompts called: Rumiko Takahashi along with generic 1980's anime prompts

After discussions with the artist community I will not sell this image anywhere since an artist is directly called in the prompt. For promotional purpose only and to mark my progress as my drawing and editing improve.