In 1957 the newspaper Daily Express did a series of James Bond comic strips, one of the first visual depictions of the character (and likely the first design for the MI6 secret agent with double digit pictures), and one of the few ever to be not based on any actor’s likeness. Bond’s appearance in these strips was based on a private sketch commissioned and directed by Fleming himself, the design was then made less “outdated” and more masculine by the strip’s artist John McLusky. Until AI progresses to the point the original sketch alone is a sufficient dataset* I think this will be the nearest to Fleming’s vision of the character one can get.
Prompt: DE007, black hair, asymmetrical hair, asymmetrical bangs, single bang, mature male
Won't work but trained: scar on cheek, scar under eye
Not in data, but authentic to books: aqua eyes (“blue-grey”)
Native style (use as negative for anything else): Comic, traditional media, monochrome, greyscale, hatching (texture), halftone,
So far I think this works better than the PDXL version by far. Not sure if it's the extra tagging (plus curly hair purge) or, of if PDXL just makes men soft by default. If you're wondering: He changes clothing enough throughout the training data (it adapted multiple books) and is so rarely seen from below the belt there is no default outfit built in (there's some training on suit and formal, but nothing much).
*I think there probably already is an option to make a full 3D bust from the sketch.