Ouch! This was a loong, step by step, very cred costly journey - but I feel I arrived at a satisfying end.
This started with being somewhat enarmoured with a highly simplistic art style, cold, elegant beauty in beige and red, and there was something about ravens and roses:
ty to @Le_boheme for temporary sharing the prompt!
this resulted in this:
which i liked but it felt a bit static and not so alive?
after learning of @Kaiart 's woodsplash lora (I love that one) I decided to take this above as starter image for his/her challenge ... a LOT of cool but not quite perfect stuff came out? some of them I published - guess makes a series to get here ...
finally, after I did the last render, I realized it reminded me a bit of anime/manga Maoyuu Maou Yuusha - it is not that great but has some endeering moments - which is how the title came to be ...
Creation Summary by Vincent
Dark Queen in Thorny Forest: Surrealist Splash Art
A striking picture of a dark queen with roses and a raven in a surreal demon forest. The image features double exposure and vivid complementary colors in a splash art style.
Created by drawin a story - maybe on Jan 21, 2024 using the Woodsplash AI image generator model.
ThankYou for taking part in my Dark vs Woodsplash challenge, amazing entries!!. I hope you enjoed. I apologize for the confusion i created by attaching a new game (which i cancelled) to the same chat room. I will start another challenge one of the next days, i invite you to join. Have a look sometimes in the challenge list by searching " kaiart " ThankYou again , i apologize for my lack of experience in organization 🙏
<lora:Woodsplash:1.0> with due elegance. a pridefull, dark queen;;; roses that drippingly bleed of the page of a wondrous poem. the wise raven bows to unblemished, horrific beauty. the dim, beige, twisted, thorny demon forest dreams silently under sublime, silver moonlight;;; 32k, HDR, hyperdetailed, ...
Weight: 1.6
elegant, surrealist, splash art, explosion of colors and forms;; perfect face, perfect eyes, prideful, cold expression, perfect hands; the demon forest, nature eerily subverted yet enhanced, surrealist; hyperdetailed, vivid complementary colors, red, black, light beige, shades of dark green, silver ...
Weight: 1.2
Brian Pulido, Nohihiro Yagi, pencil drawing, comic book sketch, high contrast manga inked in thick black, sharp
Weight: 0.4
ugly, tiling, poorly drawn hands, poorly drawn feet, poorly drawn face, out of frame, extra limbs, disfigured, deformed, body out of frame, blurry, bad anatomy, blurred, watermark, grainy, signature, cut off, draft