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<blockquote data-quote="Composer99" data-source="post: 9151978" data-attributes="member: 7030042"><p>Bringing a conception of a character I've had rattling around in my head for years.</p><p></p><p><strong>The Prompt</strong></p><p><em>A red-haired human woman wearing chainmail armour, brown boots and cloak, and a backpack, and wielding a sword and torch, stands in a dungeon corridor, looking around nervously. Dark shapes loom menacingly at the edge of the torchlight. </em></p><p></p><p>I ran this prompt with different art styles. One thing the image creator frequently did was give the woman a sword sheathed to her backpack, even through she is already wielding one. Also, I feel like the comic art styles did a really good job of capturing expression and emotion.</p><p></p><p><strong>Colour comic book style art</strong></p><p>[ATTACH]300802[/ATTACH][ATTACH]300803[/ATTACH][ATTACH]300804[/ATTACH][ATTACH]300805[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>The first picture is probably my favourite. Picture 4 does a great job of the looming, but has a weird backpack. Picture 2 has IMO the best-looking backpack but sword weirdness. The third picture is decent, but makes the woman an elf and there's some Rob Liefield pouch action going on there.</p><p></p><p><strong>Anime style art</strong></p><p>[ATTACH]300806[/ATTACH][ATTACH]300807[/ATTACH][ATTACH]300808[/ATTACH][ATTACH]300809[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Pretty well done, IMO, apart from the odd angle on the backpack in the second picture.</p><p></p><p><strong>Impressionist painting style</strong></p><p>I don't think this really ended up being very "Impressionist" as I understand the term, but painting isn't my forte.</p><p>[ATTACH]300810[/ATTACH][ATTACH]300811[/ATTACH][ATTACH]300812[/ATTACH][ATTACH]300813[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p><strong>High resolution digital fantasy art style</strong></p><p>Here I added the word "indistinct" before "dark shapes" to try and make them less well-defined (and especially less humanoid). Did it work?</p><p>[ATTACH]300819[/ATTACH][ATTACH]300820[/ATTACH][ATTACH]300821[/ATTACH][ATTACH]300822[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p><strong>High detail colour photography style </strong>and <strong>black and white photography style</strong></p><p>The photograph styles definitely didn't like non-human "indistinct dark shapes". Funnily, the black-and-white style rendered the woman's hair in colour once, and a little bit of it in colour (as if it was starting with colour and then remembered it was supposed to be black and white).</p><p>[ATTACH]300823[/ATTACH][ATTACH]300824[/ATTACH][ATTACH]300825[/ATTACH][ATTACH]300826[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH]300827[/ATTACH][ATTACH]300828[/ATTACH][ATTACH]300829[/ATTACH][ATTACH]300830[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p><strong>Chiaroscuro black and white line art</strong></p><p>The comic book art styles really liked making the woman an elf despite the prompt - usually one out of every four images had pointed ears. Interestingly, adding this style to the prompt made her hair red in all versions of the image despite the black and white instruction.</p><p>[ATTACH]300831[/ATTACH][ATTACH]300832[/ATTACH][ATTACH]300833[/ATTACH][ATTACH]300834[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p><strong>High resolution fantasy painting</strong></p><p>Okay, <s>last art</s> another style, with a slight change to the prompt.</p><p><em>A red-haired human woman wearing chainmail armour, brown boots and cloak, and a backpack, and wielding a sword and torch, stands in a dungeon corridor, looking around nervously. The ground is littered with debris and bones, and indistinct, dark shapes loom menacingly at the edge of the torchlight. High resolution fantasy painting</em></p><p>[ATTACH]300836[/ATTACH][ATTACH]300837[/ATTACH][ATTACH]300838[/ATTACH][ATTACH]300839[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>This version really gives the surroundings some pizzazz (although it goes overboard with the bones IMO) but has some of my least favourite renderings of the character. I'm especially not a fan of the hood.</p><p></p><p><strong>Edit to add more styles</strong></p><p>Inspired by some of the discussion that cropped up while I was assembling this post.</p><p></p><p><strong>Gritty line art and watercolour.</strong></p><p>Some great work on the floor littering - it's there but not overboard.</p><p>[ATTACH]300875[/ATTACH][ATTACH]300876[/ATTACH][ATTACH]300877[/ATTACH][ATTACH]300878[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p><strong>Pixar animation style.</strong></p><p>Not entirely to my taste, although I <em>love </em>the claymation look in the third photo (it's adorable!). The torch-sword thing is kind of weird, and the character is, like... ten years younger than I would envision her. (She puts me in mind of Violet from <em>The Incredibles</em>, or Anna from <em>Frozen</em>.)</p><p>[ATTACH]300879[/ATTACH][ATTACH]300880[/ATTACH][ATTACH]300881[/ATTACH][ATTACH]300882[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p><strong>1960s cartoon style</strong></p><p>The image generator didn't really capture the style all that well; I was thinking stuff like the old Spider-Man cartoon or Scooby-Doo. Also... again with the torch-sword?</p><p>[ATTACH]300888[/ATTACH][ATTACH]300889[/ATTACH][ATTACH]300890[/ATTACH][ATTACH]300891[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p><strong>Live-action wide angle television shot</strong></p><p>[ATTACH]300892[/ATTACH][ATTACH]300893[/ATTACH][ATTACH]300894[/ATTACH][ATTACH]300895[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p></p><p><strong>Painting in the style of Salvador Dali.</strong></p><p>Two versions, the prompt as written above, and the prompt with "Surrealistic" added at the start. The characters are some of the worst, but I do like what it did with the corridor and looming shapes.</p><p>[ATTACH]300896[/ATTACH][ATTACH]300897[/ATTACH][ATTACH]300898[/ATTACH][ATTACH]300899[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH]300900[/ATTACH][ATTACH]300901[/ATTACH][ATTACH]300902[/ATTACH][ATTACH]300903[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>... and okay, <em>this time </em>it's the last prompt:</p><p><strong>Art in the style of Jack Kirby.</strong></p><p>Some great stuff here, although definitely not what comes to mind when I think of Jack Kirby's style.</p><p>[ATTACH]300904[/ATTACH][ATTACH]300905[/ATTACH][ATTACH]300906[/ATTACH][ATTACH]300907[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Composer99, post: 9151978, member: 7030042"] Bringing a conception of a character I've had rattling around in my head for years. [B]The Prompt[/B] [I]A red-haired human woman wearing chainmail armour, brown boots and cloak, and a backpack, and wielding a sword and torch, stands in a dungeon corridor, looking around nervously. Dark shapes loom menacingly at the edge of the torchlight. [/I] I ran this prompt with different art styles. One thing the image creator frequently did was give the woman a sword sheathed to her backpack, even through she is already wielding one. Also, I feel like the comic art styles did a really good job of capturing expression and emotion. [B]Colour comic book style art[/B] [ATTACH alt="robyn 1.jpeg"]300802[/ATTACH][ATTACH alt="robyn 2.jpeg"]300803[/ATTACH][ATTACH alt="robyn 3.jpeg"]300804[/ATTACH][ATTACH alt="robyn 4.jpeg"]300805[/ATTACH] The first picture is probably my favourite. Picture 4 does a great job of the looming, but has a weird backpack. Picture 2 has IMO the best-looking backpack but sword weirdness. The third picture is decent, but makes the woman an elf and there's some Rob Liefield pouch action going on there. [B]Anime style art[/B] [ATTACH alt="robyn 5.jpeg"]300806[/ATTACH][ATTACH alt="robyn 6.jpeg"]300807[/ATTACH][ATTACH alt="robyn 7.jpeg"]300808[/ATTACH][ATTACH alt="robyn 8.jpeg"]300809[/ATTACH] Pretty well done, IMO, apart from the odd angle on the backpack in the second picture. [B]Impressionist painting style[/B] I don't think this really ended up being very "Impressionist" as I understand the term, but painting isn't my forte. [ATTACH alt="robyn 9.jpeg"]300810[/ATTACH][ATTACH alt="robyn 10.jpeg"]300811[/ATTACH][ATTACH alt="robyn 11.jpeg"]300812[/ATTACH][ATTACH alt="robyn 12.jpeg"]300813[/ATTACH] [B]High resolution digital fantasy art style[/B] Here I added the word "indistinct" before "dark shapes" to try and make them less well-defined (and especially less humanoid). Did it work? [ATTACH alt="robyn 13.jpeg"]300819[/ATTACH][ATTACH alt="robyn 14.jpeg"]300820[/ATTACH][ATTACH alt="robyn 15.jpeg"]300821[/ATTACH][ATTACH alt="robyn 16.jpeg"]300822[/ATTACH] [B]High detail colour photography style [/B]and [B]black and white photography style[/B] The photograph styles definitely didn't like non-human "indistinct dark shapes". Funnily, the black-and-white style rendered the woman's hair in colour once, and a little bit of it in colour (as if it was starting with colour and then remembered it was supposed to be black and white). [ATTACH alt="robyn 17.jpeg"]300823[/ATTACH][ATTACH alt="robyn 18.jpeg"]300824[/ATTACH][ATTACH alt="robyn 19.jpeg"]300825[/ATTACH][ATTACH alt="robyn 20.jpeg"]300826[/ATTACH] [ATTACH alt="robyn 21.jpeg"]300827[/ATTACH][ATTACH alt="robyn 22.jpeg"]300828[/ATTACH][ATTACH alt="robyn 23.jpeg"]300829[/ATTACH][ATTACH alt="robyn 24.jpeg"]300830[/ATTACH] [B]Chiaroscuro black and white line art[/B] The comic book art styles really liked making the woman an elf despite the prompt - usually one out of every four images had pointed ears. Interestingly, adding this style to the prompt made her hair red in all versions of the image despite the black and white instruction. [ATTACH alt="robyn 25.jpeg"]300831[/ATTACH][ATTACH alt="robyn 26.jpeg"]300832[/ATTACH][ATTACH alt="robyn 27.jpeg"]300833[/ATTACH][ATTACH alt="robyn 28.jpeg"]300834[/ATTACH] [B]High resolution fantasy painting[/B] Okay, [S]last art[/S] another style, with a slight change to the prompt. [I]A red-haired human woman wearing chainmail armour, brown boots and cloak, and a backpack, and wielding a sword and torch, stands in a dungeon corridor, looking around nervously. The ground is littered with debris and bones, and indistinct, dark shapes loom menacingly at the edge of the torchlight. High resolution fantasy painting[/I] [ATTACH alt="robyn 29.jpeg"]300836[/ATTACH][ATTACH alt="robyn 30.jpeg"]300837[/ATTACH][ATTACH alt="robyn 31.jpeg"]300838[/ATTACH][ATTACH alt="robyn 32.jpeg"]300839[/ATTACH] This version really gives the surroundings some pizzazz (although it goes overboard with the bones IMO) but has some of my least favourite renderings of the character. I'm especially not a fan of the hood. [B]Edit to add more styles[/B] Inspired by some of the discussion that cropped up while I was assembling this post. [B]Gritty line art and watercolour.[/B] Some great work on the floor littering - it's there but not overboard. [ATTACH]300875[/ATTACH][ATTACH]300876[/ATTACH][ATTACH]300877[/ATTACH][ATTACH]300878[/ATTACH] [B]Pixar animation style.[/B] Not entirely to my taste, although I [I]love [/I]the claymation look in the third photo (it's adorable!). The torch-sword thing is kind of weird, and the character is, like... ten years younger than I would envision her. (She puts me in mind of Violet from [I]The Incredibles[/I], or Anna from [I]Frozen[/I].) [ATTACH]300879[/ATTACH][ATTACH]300880[/ATTACH][ATTACH]300881[/ATTACH][ATTACH]300882[/ATTACH] [B]1960s cartoon style[/B] The image generator didn't really capture the style all that well; I was thinking stuff like the old Spider-Man cartoon or Scooby-Doo. Also... again with the torch-sword? [ATTACH]300888[/ATTACH][ATTACH]300889[/ATTACH][ATTACH]300890[/ATTACH][ATTACH]300891[/ATTACH] [B]Live-action wide angle television shot[/B] [ATTACH]300892[/ATTACH][ATTACH]300893[/ATTACH][ATTACH]300894[/ATTACH][ATTACH]300895[/ATTACH] [B]Painting in the style of Salvador Dali.[/B] Two versions, the prompt as written above, and the prompt with "Surrealistic" added at the start. The characters are some of the worst, but I do like what it did with the corridor and looming shapes. [ATTACH]300896[/ATTACH][ATTACH]300897[/ATTACH][ATTACH]300898[/ATTACH][ATTACH]300899[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]300900[/ATTACH][ATTACH]300901[/ATTACH][ATTACH]300902[/ATTACH][ATTACH]300903[/ATTACH] ... and okay, [I]this time [/I]it's the last prompt: [B]Art in the style of Jack Kirby.[/B] Some great stuff here, although definitely not what comes to mind when I think of Jack Kirby's style. [ATTACH]300904[/ATTACH][ATTACH]300905[/ATTACH][ATTACH]300906[/ATTACH][ATTACH]300907[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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