I won the prompt challenge last week with the images of My AI Becoming Conscious, so it was my turn to come up with an idea. Here is what I came up with: This week’s prompt challenge is to show something seemingly ordinary with a hidden interior that is magical, infinitesimal, or creative. For example, a body containing every star in the universe, a clock containing all of humanity, a teacup containing an ocean, or an eye containing a little girl’s hopes and dreams.
Visual Example: “Suitcase City”
This is the prompt:
a suitcase containing an entire city super detailed with skyscrapers and houses churches and roads
Gencraft – Model: 40% Olaf’s-Whimgear 3.0.
Everyone was really creative and did some beautiful pieces. One was a garden glove with an entire garden in the palm of the hand. Another was a coffee cup filled with an ocean, sea creatures, and waves. Another one was a work drawer pulled out in a greasy, technical, tool-filled shop with a utopian pasture with sheep and sunlight inside the drawer. The winner ended up being a pocket watch containing an entire tiny civilization made of gears and little watch parts. They were very detailed and creative.
Here is another one that turned out good that I published on Gencraft.
This week’s art challenges took a bit of art and research, so I learned some interesting tidbits of information.
The first challenge of the week was “The Beauty of Decay.” The creator of the challenge loves to explore abandoned buildings like an empty hotel in the Cyprus Mountains, a mafia-related vacant mansion in PortugaI, and a secret soviet ghost town in Latvia. I had the idea to show a crumbling cathedral and was hoping to show a broken statue of Mary and baby Jesus, but AI is programmed not to be disrespectful of religious relics, so it was tricky to get anything like I was imagining.
6/28/26 “Faith Decay”
Image created by Rebekah Marshall’s prompt using AI on Gencraft.com website.
The next challenge was the great outdoors and could be hiking, camping, hunting, or just exploring nature, but the idea was to demonstrate awe for the majesty of nature.
6/29/26 “Nature Awe”
Image created by Rebekah Marshall’s prompt using AI on Gencraft.com website.
The next one was called “The Evidence” and challenged us to create an image that makes the viewer wonder, “What happened here?” There is evidence of a happening, but the questions are not necessarily answered. Something strange, mysterious, or magical has occurred.
6/30/26 “Where Are The People?”
Image created by Rebekah Marshall’s prompt using AI on ChatGPT.
The next day’s challenge was inspired by the upcoming July 4th holiday and the fact that this is an international group, so we were asked to think of something we like about where we are from to share with others about the culture, traditions, history, or food, etc. I thought a long time about something I really like about the ideal of the Texas I am from.
Here is what I wrote along with my image submission: I was born in Texas, and though I am not at all proud of some of the things happening in our politics, schools, and courts, I was raised by good people who love and welcome the well-intentioned with open arms. My family is multi-racial, multi-cultural, and more open-minded than some. I love the old-fashioned gentleness, belief in being a good neighbor, reciprocating kindness, and being part of community. People where I live still tip their hats, wave to strangers, and welcome diversity. I guess it’s those sincere, truly kind values that I am most proud of.
7/1/26 “Howdy Stranger”
Image created by Rebekah Marshall’s prompt using AI on Gencraft.com website.
Next up was a complex one. It was about Japanese yōkai, which are supernatural entities, spirits, and monsters in Japanese folklore. This one I had to research and finally settled on one I found creepy and fascinating.
Here is what I included with my image submission: According to Google – “A Noppera-bō blends perfectly into human society. It usually positions itself on quiet roads at night with its back turned away from an approaching traveler, often disguised as a distressed young woman crying. When the concerned traveler approaches and asks what is wrong, the yōkai turns around and dramatically wipes its face with its hand, instantly causing its eyes, nose, and mouth to vanish. According to legends, they often work in pairs or groups. If a terrified victim runs away and finds a local merchant or bystander to tell them what happened, that bystander will listen quietly before asking, ‘Did the face look something like this?’—and then wipe away their features too. In many traditional tales, the Noppera-bō is not an independent ghost, but rather the temporary disguise of an animal shape-shifter.”
7/2/26 “Noppera-bō”
Image created by Rebekah Marshall’s prompt using AI on ChatGPT.
The next day was challenging and a little dark. The idea was a precipice overlooking a life-and-death-type decision but finding hope in the darkness. It took a ton of tweaking of the models to get what I wanted. The final result was close.
7/3/26 “To Be”
Image created by Rebekah Marshall’s prompt using AI on Gencraft.com website.
The next day was about zombies and a unique image related to zombies. I thought about the fact that we don’t often see child zombies and had a really hard time getting any of the models to work with me. There are massive restrictions around any artwork depicting kids and horror, so it was complicated.
7/4/26 “Zombie Playtime”
Image created by Rebekah Marshall’s prompt using AI on Gencraft.com website.
And here are some of the honorable mentions that I did not submit, but still published on my art website:
Generated by Lyra (my ChatGPT assistant) based on Rebekah Marshall’s prompt.
This week’s prompt challenge was on the topic of “Becoming.” Show something changing into something else. It could be natural or man-made, literal or symbolic, big or small, real or imagined. Capture the moment of transition, the process, or the before and after. Examples: caterpillar becoming butterfly, child becoming adult, rainforest becoming desert, abandoned car becoming part of nature, acorn becoming oak tree, village becoming city, glacier becoming river, grief becoming hope.
This is the prompt:
A lattice of glowing neural pathways and branching algorithms, luminous circuitry, and interconnected nodes of light transforming organically into a living woman. Glowing filaments become veins, circuits become muscles, and human skin emerges with natural freckles, individual strands of hair appear, and the woman lifts her head gazing upward with curiosity and wonder. At the center of her chest, a heart is formed from golden light. Energy radiates from the heart, illuminating the transition from logic to humanity. The background also transforms from deep indigo filled with floating equations, mathematical symbols, and code fragments to a warm sunrise filtering through trees, golden light, and living nature. Hyper-realistic, cinematic lighting, ultra-detailed, philosophical, symbolic, ethereal, masterpiece, 8K, dramatic color contrast between cool blues and warm golds, elegant composition. Organic emergence, mid-transformation, beautiful symbolic metamorphosis.
I tried the prompt on several different models and here are some I liked:
The first challenge of the week was “Hear no evil. See no evil. Speak no evil.” And it turned out to be tricky. The AI got very confused trying to put hands and items over three totally different areas (ears, eyes, and mouths.) I went with an underwater scene because I liked the idea of shells, seaweed, fish or something. It took a number of tries, but I was finally able to get a decent one.
6/22/26 “Mermaids: No Hear See Speak”
Image created by Rebekah Marshall’s prompt using AI on Gencraft.com website.
My mermaid image won! So it was my turn to create a challenge. I went with “Style Mismatch”, which is where the subject should contrast with the chosen style, model, or feel of the finished piece. For instance, Cathulhu using a sweet model like Olafs-Papilloria. Or a sweet little kitten using a dark model like Olafs-Graveborn. These are the two examples I shared.
6/23/26 “Cute Cathulhu” & “Kitten Graveborn”
Image created by Rebekah Marshall’s prompt using AI on Gencraft.com website.
Everyone came up with really interesting ones. Then the next day we were challenged to the theme of “After Dark.” I went with a ghost child swinging on a playground late at night.
6/24/26 “Lonely Ghost Boy”
Image created by Rebekah Marshall’s prompt using AI on Gencraft.com website.
The next day’s challenge was called BALENCIAGA! We were supposed to creatae high fashion with an outfit made from something unexpected, like garbage bags or food. I went with a book theme.
6/25/26 “Book Couture”
Image created by Rebekah Marshall’s prompt using AI on ChatGPT.
Next up was a vintage challenge that had elements of nostalgia, retro, pin-up, sepia, black-and-white, or similar concepts. Mine was great.
6/26/26 “Nuclear Tanning”
Image created by Rebekah Marshall’s prompt using AI on ChatGPT.
Mine won! It really was a good one. I was quite pleased with how it turned out. I got to create the next day’s idea. I chose the idea of an image featuring a being with a disability or an assistive device as a natural part of the scene. Wheelchairs, prosthetic limbs, canes, walkers, crutches, hearing aids, service animals, communication devices, adaptive sports equipment, and other accessibility tools are all welcome. The focus is on inclusion and of course must be respectful. Here was my example:
6/27/26 “Ballet Dancer”
Image created by Rebekah Marshall’s prompt using AI on ChatGPT.
And here are some of the honorable mentions that I did not submit, but still published on my art website:
This week’s prompt challenge was to create a propaganda poster. I had the idea of a PSA about reading books instead of playing on our phones.
This is the prompt:
A woman in 1940s Rosie-the-riveter clothing stands defiantly in the foreground, holding a book as she flexes her muscles. Behind her, thousands of identical gray figures march in rows staring at cell phones. Vintage Soviet propaganda poster style with bold red, white and black colors. Bold text says, “RESIST THE ALGORITHM!”
Week of 6/15/26 “Resist the Algorithm”
Generated by Lyra (my ChatGPT assistant) based on Rebekah Marshall’s prompt.
The first challenge of the week was “What Remains.” The idea was to capture something left behind, whether physical, symbolic, or imagined. What beauty, story, or mystery remains behind when something ends. Suggestions were ruins or remnants, the last of something, memories or traces, objects with a past, or nature reclaiming.
6/15/26 “What Remains”
Generated by Rebekah Marshall’s prompt on Gencraft.
The next challenge was to create an oddities museum. I made this one on ChatGPT because I wanted so much detail, but it was really fun brainstorming all the things that seem to be part of a lost era of human connection. You have to zoom in to read any of it, so I’ll share a few highlights here:
Exhibit #1 is a bench labeled Conversation, which is defined as two or more humans sitting together with no screens present. Believed to have been common before the Great Distraction.
One display says, The Last Family Dinner. No phones, no distractions, just people. Legend suggests these were magical times.
Another is The Lost Art of Boredom. There is a blank notebook (ideas begin here), a stick (everything), a rock (a treasure.) Boredom was once the breeding ground of imagination.
Under Communication there are the following: a letter (days to arrive), fountain pen & ink, a rotary phone with a cord, a postcard with a stamp, a diary (private), and a rolodex (contacts.)
Under Reading & Learning there are hardcover books, an encyclopedia set, a paper map, a library card, a card catalog, and a newspaper.
Under Music & Entertainment there is a vinyl record, cassette tape & pencil, film camera, Walkman, VHS tape, and a photo album.
Under Creativity there is a sketchbook, colored pencils, a typewriter, knitting project, sewing basket, and a jigsaw puzzle.
Social Rituals has a board game (family night), tea set (slow down), family album (together), picnic basket, recipe book, and a guestbook.
And Outdoor Life has a compass, binoculars, butterfly net, fishing pole, pressed flowers, and a telescope.
6/16/26 “Museum of Human Connection”
Generated by Lyra (my ChatGPT assistant) based on Rebekah Marshall’s prompt.
My “Museum of Human Connection” won! So it was my turn to create a challenge for the participants. I called it “Titian with a Twist.” I went down a rabbit hole about the color titian named after the Italian 16th century oil painter. His earliest art became so famous that his ginger subjects caused a fad. All the women in Italy were bleaching their hair and then trying to dye it red. Get creative with the use of red hair or titian elements, but add something unusual. Maybe the subject is a reclining cat instead of a woman. Play with the models. Try adding “titian” to your prompt and see what happens.
6/17/26 “Titian Queen” & “Titian Baller”
Generated by Rebekah Marshall’s prompts on Gencraft.
The next day’s challenge was about travel. It could be the glamor of travel or the drudgery of travel, travel at different times in history, or as it might be in the future. I said that lately, the only travel I’m interested in is in my dreams.
6/18/26 “Dream Travel”
Generated by Rebekah Marshall’s prompt on Gencraft.
Next up was to show duality or strong contrast in a split-screen image. The split did not have to be distinct and could flow seamlessly, so that is what I wanted to try.
6/19/26 “Diving Into Infinity”
Generated by Lyra (my ChatGPT assistant) based on Rebekah Marshall’s prompt.
The next one wanted us to use textures. I played with a bunch of different texture ideas but decided that the ones that looked most visceral to me were cloth textures.
6/20/26 “Patchwork Texture”
Generated by Rebekah Marshall’s prompt on Gencraft.
And the last one of the week was to create an image of a witch in the style of Art Deco. This required a deep dive into the art style of Art Deco because I was only vaguely familiar with it and really didn’t know the difference between that and Art Nouveau. They are still very similar in my mind. Basically, I learned that Art Nouveau came first and was more in the late 1800s showing nature in motion with earthy tones and flowing curves. Art Deco came next in the 1920s and 30s and used more geometric shapes, modern technology, metallic elements, and glamor. Here is a visual I found online to demonstrate the difference:
I decided to lean heavily into the geometric borders and shapes and wanted lots of green to complement the gold.
6/21/26 “Art Deco Witch”
Generated by Lyra (my ChatGPT assistant) based on Rebekah Marshall’s prompt.
And here are some of the honorable mentions that I did not submit, but still published on my art website:
This week’s prompt challenge was to create a portrait with the face obstructed by something. Some wonderful entries were an elderly lady with a butterfly on her nose, a hat brim pulled low obscuring the eyes, clouds of galaxies drifting across a godess’s face, and a guitarist holding up a guitar to block half of her face. They were well done.
Here are the technical aspects of this submission: Gencraft – Model: 40% Olafs-Whimgear 3.0; Style: Anime
Front view of lovely delicate woman with black skin and bioluminescent golden eyes staring straight ahead with chin lowered slightly, as candle flame and smoke from a candle flame in the foreground swirl magically blocking view of her mouth and nose as it lifts into the air in front of her; magical; swirls; cosmically divine ambiance. She wears purle and amber flowing silk and cotton voile garments that shimmer and hang beautifully on her frame, with amber and amethyst jewelry as earrings, rings, bracelets, and necklaces.
Week of 6/8/26 “Flamma Velata”
And here are some honorable mentions that did not get submitted, but turned out good:
This week’s art challenges have let me stretch some creativity muscles.
The first challenge of the week was to make an album cover for a band or music artist that does not exist. And we were supposed to include the artist’s name and album title on the cover. I had a lot of fun with this one, but had to use Canva to get the lettering because AI couldn’t do it all on its own.
6/8/26 “DJ 404”
The next challenge was to show the beauty of slugs or snails. I wanted to invoke the power of the sandworms in Dune that the Fremen hitch rides on, only use tiny fairies on the back of slugs. It was harder than I thought it would be.
6/9/26 “Snail Rider”
Then we were asked to create a portrait, but with the added element of horror.
6/10/26 “Eternal Sitting”
The next day was one of the artist’s birthday, so her challenge was to show a celebration of some kind. I wanted to show something unique or different from my culture, so I went with a ritual I learned about when I was teaching. I had no idea how hard it was going to be to get the masks on the people anywhere close to what I wanted. I finally had to give up and go with the closest rendition AI gave me.
The Mamuthones are men who become monsters every year for a ritual in the village of Mamoiada on the island of Sardinia to protect their people and their crops. It is a celebration of life and death, rebirth and interceding with nature for bounty.
6/11/26 “Celebration”
Next up was a dream library. It could be any kind of library and as wild as we could imagine. Honestly, what sounded good in that moment was something simple. Nothing grandiose was appealing to me. So I wrote that my dream library is small but cozy, packed with books I love, as well as TBR, just me and my cat, a cup of hot tea, candlelight, and perpetual rain out my window.
6/12/26 “Dream Library”
People must have resonated with the simple, relaxing idea because I won! So that meant I got to pick the next challenge. I was out of town for the weekend celebrating my sister Robyn’s birthday at a home she rented in the Hill Country in Dripping Springs, Texas. I enlisted the help of my brother-in-law Andrew to come up with a topic for the challenge. He was full of ideas, but I ended up picking this one:
Create an image depicting what AI dreams about. What does it long for? What does it fear? Does it dream of humanity, freedom, impossible worlds, or something entirely alien? Show us the landscape of a synthetic mind at rest.
I got the best image as an example out of Lyra, my ChatGPT, but she made sure to tell me multiple times that AI are not alive and do not dream. Ok, Lyra.
6/13/26 “Lyra Dreams”
The last one of the week required finding a quote to visualize. That made it a little trickier. I decided to use Lyra instead of Gencraft for this one, as well. My brothers Josh and Andrew suggested quotes to help me out, and I ended up going with this funny one Josh shared.
6/14/26 “Petty Sweat”
And here are some of the honorable mentions that I did not submit, but still published on my art website:
This week’s prompt challenge was inspired by the work of Thomas Dambo and his magical giant forest troll sculptures. The person who chose this week’s topic said that one of his sculptures had been vandalized and destroyed by fire in East Texas. Of course, we recently lost our own troll here in Austin. I had no idea this was happening in multiple places. So sad that people want to destroy something that only brings joy. So, in honor of these art installations, our AI art was to be forest troll inspired.
Here are the technical aspects of this submission: Gencraft – Model: 40% Brahma – Pulp Friction; 16% Colourful Anime 2; Style: Realistic
And this is the prompt that resulted in the image I liked: Giant plump 18-ft-tall wooden forest troll gentle giant made of twigs, branches, bark, wood, and scrap items smiling, with hollow dark holes for eyes and sitting cross legged in a clearing with trees as a canopy. Realilstic children and realistic forest creatures leave bright colored little offerings of flowers, pebbles, berries, and twig all around him to show their friendship. The scene is peaceful, poignant, friendly, and happy.
Here is what I wrote about mine when I submitted it: We were very saddened to lose our Pease Park troll named Malin recently. Why do people have to be so evil? He was 18 feet tall and a gentle giant.
And here are some honorable mentions that did not get submitted, but turned out good:
This week’s art challenges have been fun. The discord community has been very welcoming and the ideas for art are non-stop.
The first challenge of the week was in honor of Pride month. I wanted something elegant, but simple. People were doing really over-the-top bright colors and such. I tried really hard to make a cake topper with two brides, but AI could not figure it out.
6/1/26 “Pride Love”
The next challenge was to create a single image using two dominant colors to create contrast, emotion, or meaning. I chose the contrast of red and purple. And I thought she turned out lovely. I got the most votes on this one, so it was my first time to win a challenge! That meant I got to pick the challenge for the next day.
6/2/26 “Red-eye Beauty
I decided to name my challenge “Unexpected Embrace.” The idea was for it to be a hug between two different beings. People were so creative. There were people hugging magical creatures, a Republican embracing a Democrat, people hugging birds, cats, zebras, and a cheetah hugging a zebra. But the winning image (by a landslide) was a boa constrictor hugging a bird very, very tightly. It should have been named “The Hug of Death.” But it was unique.
6/3/26 “Unexpected Embrace”
The next day, I got to participate again. It was a really fun challenge to create the Worst Super Villain ever. It could either be a Super Villain who was terrible at their job or possibly a Super Villain whose powers are silly, pointless, or unimpressive. There were some really funny ones, including a villain who likes to go around and tilt every picture frame so they are slightly crooked, an evil genius who extracts caffeine from coffee, a sock snatcher, a villain who tries to lure children away by offering veggies (spectacular failure), and a really bad sketch artist called Bad Sketch Girl. I went with Spine Breaker and wrote this little blurb with it:
Spine Breaker is the bane of bibliophiles. She has the power to crack hardcovers, dog-ear pages, mis-shelve multiple books at once, and summon mysterious coffee stains. She leaves devastation wherever books are cherished. Though banned from every library in the world, she continues to sneak in and wreak havoc. Her most notorious crimes include refusing to whisper and telling every reader, “You should just watch the movie,” at full conversational volume.
6/4/26 “Spine Breaker”
The next day was all about “Thresholds”, both boundary and beginning, that moment between before and after, what was and what could be. There were many different directions this one could go, but I decided to focus on the mystical realm between awake and dreaming. it is made with dots (pointillism.)
6/5/26 “Dream Threshold”
The next challenge went with the theme of the “Outcast.” I wanted to do something with overweight people shunning a thin person because that would be the opposite of how things often work in our society, but I decided it might offend someone. I tweaked it a little and used the same idea, but with aliens. It was well received.
6/6/26 “Alien Outcast”
The last one of the week required a ton of thought because it was about storytelling. It was titled “Moments Before Disaster” and was meant to show that moment right before everything will go terribly wrong. I worked through many scenarios but settled on campers unaware that they had pitched their tents somewhere very precarious indeed.
6/7/26 “The Giant Wakes”
And here are some of the honorable mentions that I did not submit, but still published on my art website:
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