Tag: SLDSart

Breaking Through — Spies, Lies & Digital Skies & CWWC

Hi All 👋 My latest post for Susan’s Digital Art Challenge: Ambush in a Shadowy Forest.

As this involves an ambush on a track through a forest, this is also my post for Cee’s Which Way Challenge.

This was quite a simple one & required only one baseline photo to base my prompt on in Hot Mods.

Wooded path

This first attempt came out really well. It shows a dispatch rider breaking through an ambush in a forest.

Breaking through an ambush

I decided to also winterise the scene & added a sidecar to the bike.

Wintery forest ambush

As usual, I could have stopped here, but where’s the fun in thatNext up is a cyberpunk-style image, as seen through the scope of a sniper following the action; this one’s my definite favourite.

Cyberpunk ambush

My next favourite is this abstract-style re-imagining of the scene.

Abstract-style ambush

As usual, there were many different runs in different styles, including the ambush being viewed from a command centre. Enjoy these in the carousel below

One other picture I really liked was this Baroque-style one; the bike looks really ornate & cool.

Baroque ambush

April 26, 2024
Hidden in the Woods — Spies, Lies & Digital Skies

Hi All 👋 My latest post for Susan’s Digital Art Challenge: Hidden Safe House.

Okay, so this one became a bit of an epic as one idea led to another. I ended up with three different scenarios, & thus, three different baseline images.

I’m starting out with the safe house in a wood scenario. The following is a photo from an old WWII military site at Elie, Fife.

Old guard house
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April 25, 2024
Mystery Caller — Spies, Lies & Digital Skies
Hi All 👋 My latest post for Susan’s Digital Art Challenge: Tracing a mysterious phone call.

I thought I’d go a bit old-school with this one & had a good couple of pictures to use as a baseline.

Read on for a wee bit of art history as well!!!
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April 12, 2024
Faking It — Spies, Lies & Digital Skies
Hi All 👋 My latest post for Susan’s Digital Art Challenge: Crafting a False Identity.

I used the same baseline picture I’ve previously used for the cryptography prompt.
The first image from my prompt looked a bit too old world.

Hard at work
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April 5, 2024
Disguised Rendezvous — Spies, Lies & Digital Skies
Hi All 👋 My latest post for Susan’s Digital Art Challenge: Disguised Rendezvous In A Foreign City.

I don’t have many foreign city pictures, so I went with a shot of Santa Monica Pier as my baseline.

Santa Monica Pier

I was running a wee bit short on time for this, so I went straight for uncomplicated fun (when Susan was working on this earlier, I thought she was about to throw her MacBook at something).

Disguised rendezvous

There weren’t enough elements of the Santa Monica Pier in this, so I added some other pictures to the prompt & re-ran it.
This is the re-run using a combination of 4 original pictures.

Disguised rendezvous at the Pier

I like the fun of this & this is my main picture for this week’s challenge, but I also decided to have it viewed by a real wizard using a crystal ball.

That was not quite what I wanted, so I rewrote the prompt with the real wizard viewing the rendezvous using a giant crystal ball in a steampunk room.
March 29, 2024
Craziness At The Border — Spies, Lies & Digital Skies

Hi All 👋 My latest post for Susan’s Digital Art Challenge.

There are two images that I’m going with for this week’s challenge. Both came from the same baseline picture.

Snowy Field

The first is an action-packed, chaotic scene at a snowy border crossing.

Attack on the border

For the second, I re-imagined the scene as a standoff between Roman Soldiers & Pictish Warriors at a Gate on Hadrian’s Wall. Which do you prefer?

Attack on the gate
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March 27, 2024
Hacks The Way To Do It– Spies, Lies & Digital Skies

Hi All 👋 My latest post for Susan’s Digital Art Challenge: Hacking.

I used a couple of baseline photos for this challenge.

So over to Hot Mods & away we go. The very first prompt came out pretty well.

Hacking the server

I wanted the guy to be more sneaky-looking, so I told the AI to put his hood up to hide his face; this came out really well.

Shadowy figure hacking the servers

So basically, job doneBut why stop there; let’s steampunk it!

Steampunk hacker

Now, that’s cool, but whilst we’re at it, let’s try cyber-punk.

Cyber-punk hack

Again, love the outcome, particularly the control orb he’s using to do the hack. Now, let’s blend steampunk & cyber-punk.

Steampunk/Cyber-Punk hack

Awesome, but where nextI know, how about mythical, with a wizard doing the hack

Wizard hacker

It’s a bit nicey-nicey, so let’s darken it a wee bit.

Dark wizard hacker

This was the look I was going for.

March 15, 2024
Chaotic Escape — Spies, Lies & Digital Skies

Hi All 👋 My latest post for Susan’s Digital Art Challenge: Escape from a high-security facility.

This is the picture I’m going with for the challenge, but there were a few others on the way to this one. To me, it perfectly encapsulates a daring escape from a high-security facility.

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March 8, 2024
Decryption — Spies, Lies & Digital Skies
Hi All 👋 My latest post for Susan’s Digital Art Challenge: Deciphering a Cryptic Message.

I used two baseline images for this week’s challenge…
…and then wrote a prompt to include the deciphering of a message. I was very happy with the first image created.

Deciphering a cryptic message

Never one to leave well enough alone, I had to re-imagine this in a steampunk world.

Steampunk decryption

This was a cool outcome, but I wanted to go one step further. I’ve been playing around with a fusion of steampunk & futuristic settings, so that’s what I’ve gone with for this final image.

Steampunk/futuristic decryption
February 16, 2024