Character Studies is a project that reimagines the faces of some our most beloved fictional protagonists as a collaboration with the authors who once created them. 

By introducing original character descriptions into AI and combining them with paintings, these speculative portraits embed the author’s voice as a core conceit, approaching the “prompt” as an opportunity to dramatize and humanize, rather than simply optimize a visual outcome. 

This first series—The Heroines—includes descriptions of characters drawn from novels by Jane Austen, Henry James, D. H. Lawrence, Marcel Proust, Leo Tolstoy, and Edith Wharton, among others.

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