I thought I’d do a bit of creative artwork with the image above. I’ve been experimenting with different settings for the sunflower, & decided this time to go with enchanted elements. For this prompt, I imagined a scene of a sunflower on a hillside surrounded by spring flowers & fairies. It overlooks a valley with a distant hilltop city next to a river. Dragons soar across the skies against a mountainous backdrop & large moon.
I thought I’d do a bit of creative artwork with the image above. I’ve been experimenting with different settings for the sunflower, & decided this time to go with a fusion of enchanted elements & futuristic cityscape. My main points were to have a sunflower growing out of an old helmet in the foreground, alongside a mystical tower on a hillside overlooking a valley in which sits a futuristic city alongside a river. The image was also to feature fairies & dragons. This was the first image generated.
I love the effect of the plume on the helmet being made of sunflower petals & grass, but I wanted the tower to be more of a feature & so I re-engineered the prompt.
Sunflower & futuristic cityscape
This time the AI made the old helmet the remnants of a futuristic statue; a good look but still not what I intended, so back to the prompt.
Again, the AI melded the tower & helmet prompt, so I needed to separate them.Sunflower & futuristic cityscape
I finally got the tower & helmet separated, but now they have also been separated spatially, whereas I had envisioned them on the same hillside. Back to the prompt!!!
Sunflower & futuristic cityscape
Okay, I’ve got to admit, I like this image; it’s not what I intended, but all the aspects are there. I like the half sunflower, half helmet effect & that on one side is a pristine natural landscape, & on the other, a futuristic world, echo’d by the sunflower/helmet. This is an image that requires more work & will feature again in a future post.
I thought I’d do a bit of creative artwork with the image above. I’ve been experimenting with different settings for the sunflower, & decided this time to go with a moonscape. For once, my prompt engineering gave the result I was aiming for first timeEnjoy
I thought I’d do a bit of creative artwork with the image above. I’ve a trio of re-imagined shots today. I decided to have the sunflower in a post-apocalyptic setting for today. The first image has the sunflower lit by a sunbeam, growing out of a crack in a highway running through a post-apocalyptic cityscape. I added in cars littering the highway as if a mass-exodus had taken place.
Sunflower in post-apocalyptic cityscape
I wanted the cityscape to be more futuristic, & the sunflower more of a feature in the picture. When I re-engineered the prompt, I told it to make the sunflower larger; this was the result: Mutant Sunflower
Mutant Sunflower
Although not what I intended, I do like the idea of a giant mutant sunflower; who knows what calamity befell the city & led to this giant flower. I also like the futuristic cityscape in this one.
To get the desired effect, I re-engineered the prompt again to make the sunflower more of a feature (not larger — it’s all about learning the AI’s language), and this was the result. I’m happy with how it came out; the sunflower stands tall & proud & the skies are clearing & becoming more blue again, perhaps a symbol of hope & recovery
I thought I’d do a bit of creative artwork with the image above. I’ve a couple of re-imagined shots today. The first was a very basic prompt using the sunflower picture; the sunflower is growing out of a camel skull in a barren desert with sand dunes & distant mountains.
Sunflower in a barren desert
For the second image, I’ve added a mystical ruin by an oasis, & a couple of scorpions for interest.
I thought I’d do a bit of creative artwork with the image above. I’ve re-imagined the original shot to put the sunflower in a wintry wooded glade tended by fairies. I like the contrast between the warmth of the sunflower & the cold of snow covered trees.
I thought I’d do a bit of creative artwork with the image above; below are two different outcomes.
The first is a very basic enhancement by the AI with minimal input from me.
Hot Mod enhancement of my sunflower picture
For the next, I manipulated the AI to draw up a background scene of grassland with distant mountains, put the sunflower over to one side, & the addition of magical fairies.
I am delving into my archives for warm, sunny shots during these frosty days.
I had a comment from LadySighs on my last peony post that the pinks weren’t quite doing it for warmth & that sunflowers may work; never one to turn down a challenge, my FOTD posts for the next few days will be bright & cheerful sunflowers