Mostly because I thought of it more as an art project than a technical accuracy project. However, the honest answer to your question, is because I have a ridiculous amount of photos of my dog on my phone . Getting training data is hard work.

But this is totally true, I found that maybe 30% of the images I generated did not look like my dog at all. However the rest do a good job at capturing his eyes and facial expressions that he actually makes. I thought that the chosen image I worked from captured the look of his eyes super well.

But yeah, nobody but me would really appreciate that.