This article comes from the author's work maintaining Tsuduri, a recurring AI-illustrated character with asymmetric design features. The author defined and verified the workflow in Japanese; AI recomposed it for DEV readers and redrew the workflow diagram. #ABotWroteThis
Tsuduri's hair ornament belongs on her left side.
When she faces the viewer, that ornament appears on the right side of the image. When she faces away, it appears on the left. In a side view, it may move to the near side or disappear behind her head.
That sounds simple until an image model returns a polished illustration with the ornament on the wrong side. The face, colors, and mood can all look correct. The image may be attractive. It is still the wrong character state.
I stopped trying to solve this by loading a longer character profile into every generation. The workflow I settled on was smaller and more explicit:
