This week’s Prompt Challenge was called “Classic Horror.” We were supposed to create an original horror piece using at least three classic horror clichés in one cohesive scene. No villains, characters, movies, or references to existing horror franchises were allowed.
“Enduring Love”
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Prompt: Close up of a skeleton hand holding a large bouquet of flowers by the stems and placing them on the ground near the base of an ancient gravestone by dim moonlight. The flowers on laying on the ground with the hand still touching them.
Platform: Gencraft;
Model: Olafs-Whimgear 3.0
Style: Polaroid
Some runner-up images that I did not enter into the contest, but still published on Gencraft:
This first challenge of the week was to create an image of a beautiful room that exists in 5 different realities transforming from abandoned ruin to living forest to underwater world to luxurious inhabited room to frozen world.
8/23/26 “Reality Room”
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The next challenge was in to depict the struggle between good and evil using materials such as wood, metal, glass, leather, or wadding.
8/24/26 “I Choose Soft”
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The next challenge was The Female Choice. As in nature, brilliant plumage, elaborate displays, songs, dances and rituals are used to lure the female gaze, our challenge was to invent the ultimate example. Mine did not get many votes, but I stand by it.
8/25/26 “Sexiest Man Alive”
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Our next challenge was to share a picture of a Pokémon with its dark evil form. I chose the one I thought was the cutest Jigglypuff because I thought that might be good contrast.
8/26/26 “JigglyBeast”
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The next day’s challenge was to recreate a poster for an internationally famous film. I decided to honor someone who had recently passed away. Can you guess the movie?
8/27/26 “9-5”
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That one won! So I had to come up with the next challenge. Here is what I wrote:
Let’s look at the world through a magnifying glass! The New Challenge: “Tiny Worlds”
Show us a macro-perspective of something small that holds a whole world inside. It could be an entire ecosystem inside a glass teardrop, a tiny magical village built inside a tree stump, or a whole galaxy captured within a single marble. Think big by looking small! Have fun, and may the best prompt win!
8/28/26 “Missing Home”
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The last challenge of the week was to make a house or building in any theme. The only rule was that it needed to be fictional or imaginative.
8/29/26 “Knot For Rent”
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And here are some of the honorable mentions that I did not submit, but still published on my art website:
This first challenge of the week was to create an image of an animal working in a professional career. We had to demonstrate technical control and a distinct point of view.
8/16/26 “Hyena Comedian”
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The next challenge was in honor of Curt Siodak who is the inventor of the modern werewolf myth. We had to pick an element of the modern myth to illustrate.
8/17/26 “Werewolf”
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The next challenge was to create an image that shows only a tiny part of something absolutely enormous. Without showing the complete thing, perspective, surroundings, or other clues should imply size. Mine was not as colossal as everyone else’s.
8/18/26 “Giant Athlete”
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The next day’s challenge was in the style of the Dutch Old Masters.
8/19/26 “Midnight Snack”
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The next challenge was a hard one that I needed ChatGPT’s help to complete. It had to be a video game including LEVEL UP or LEVEL COMPLETE and the interface with gaming features. I know very little about video games, so I needed quite a bit of guidance. I made a game about making AI art!
8/20/26 “Prompt Quest”
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To my shock and surprise, I won the video game image challenge. So I had to make up the next one. I had everyone make a book cover for any genre with an image, title, and author name, at minimum. And I provided a silly example.
8/21/26 “Romance Novel”
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The last challenge of the week was to use shades of grey to create an image and only use subtle hints of others colors to distinguish it from a traditional black-and-white image.
8/22/26 “Elephant in the Mist”
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And here are some of the honorable mentions that I did not submit, but still published on my art website:
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This week’s prompt challenge was to write a prompt that will create a person who represents opposing concepts or elements, such as chaos and order, fire and water, etc. I chose sharp, rigid and bright contrasting with soft, curvy, and pastel.
“Curves & Corners”
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Prompt – A front view surreal portrait of a beautiful African American woman with long, naturally curly flowing hair. The image is divided conceptually at her waist, everything above is soft, organic, flowing, and rounded, including the background image of flowing sky. Her clothing above her waist is loose and ethereal with flowing chiffon, billowing sleeves, gentle folds, swirling ribbons, soft curves, elegance, circles, orbs, swirling clouds, rounded forms, graceful waves, smooth gradients, delicate mist, pastel and muted colors, blended, dreamy, feminine, soft. Below her waist the skirt crystallizes into sharp angular geometry. Faceted polygons, jagged shards, triangles, diamonds, hard edges, sharp corners, fractured crystalline planes, sharp folds, Cubist architecture, geometric abstraction, rigid structures, loud clashing colors, black accents, bold graphic contrast. The landscape behind her lower half is angular buildings, polygonal streets, fractured perspective, sharp architecture.
Platform – ChatGPT
And here are some of the honorable mentions that I did not submit, but still published on my art website:
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This week’s prompt challenge was to write a prompt that will create an image of a building that defies gravity and physics, such as a skyscraper built of water or a castle resting on the back of a whale. I decided to make mine out of paper in the spine of a book.
“Origami Book Village”
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Prompt – A whimsical origami town built entirely from giant folded sheets of paper and scraps of newspaper rises up from the pages of an open book. Geometric folds with sharp creases and patchwork paper engineering form every palace, cathedral, tower, bridge, staircase, archway, rooftop, fortress wall and home. The surfaces show faint ink sketches, faded diagrams, typeprint, and calligraphy. Realistic paper texture and hodgepodge of mismatched pieces. Pretty blue sky with a few fluffy clouds, tiny people wandering the streets of the city. The entire town should look delicate and fragile, a paper village.
Gencraft – Model: 40% Olafs-Whimgear 3.0.
Style – Cartoon.
And here are some of the honorable mentions that I did not submit, but still published on my art website:
This first challenge of my week was to use the framing technique of dead space where a portion of the frame is left unoccupied or uninteresting to force the viewer’s eye to the main subject.
7/26/26 “Pool Time”
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The next challenge was to create a magical pharmacy. Since Time is the Rarest Medicine, some of the prescriptions are An Unhurried Morning, Childhood (limited Supply), One Long Goodbye, Borrowed Youth, Second Chances, Time to Heal, One Summer Afternoon, and Five More Minutes. Dosage – as needed. Side Effects – No Regrets. Please return borrowed time promptly.
7/27/26 “Apothecary of Borrowed Time”
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The next challenge was to create an image that included an anthropomorphic animal with their vehicle.
7/28/26 “Ol’ Bubba”
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The next day’s challenge was to include a classic horror character from a list of old classics including the one I chose, The Invisible Man. Yes, he’s naked in my image. The horror!
7/29/26 “Dancing with the Invisible Man”
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The next challenge was to create a home interior where the furniture, windows, patterns, and objects subtly form one enormous hidden face. Mine won the challenge!
7/30/26 “Hearth & Soul”
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Since my “Hearth & Soul” won, I got to make up the next challenge. However, the other AI artists were quite impatient waiting for me. They had already made some art expressing their displeasure that I thought was funny.
Crickets by Lulu on DiscordWaiting by Junio on DiscordWaiting by Nexi on DiscordWaiting by Lulu on DiscordWaiting by Astarel on Discord
I kept it simple and said that today’s challenge must include water and something or someone partially submerged.
7/31/26 “Quiet Waters”
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The last challenge of the week had to include a lesser known Marvel or DC character. I chose “Rose Tattoo” who was part of the Wildstorm Universe and is the living incarnation of Murder. Wildstorm was bought by DC, so it counts.
8/1/26 “Rose Tattoo”
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And here are some of the honorable mentions that I did not submit, but still published on my art website:
Amy Bloom has crafted a collection of short fictional stories that are exquisite. The language is breathtakingly gorgeous, though the subject matter is not always pretty. The only common theme is unflinching witness to people’s passion. And that is sometimes dark and ugly and confusing. Most of the stories ponder desire between people who are not meant to be together: an older woman and her adult step-son, couple friends whose partners are secretly having an affair, a married man who longs for the owner of the local coffee shop, or the killer who always aims for the heart.
One scene I thought expressed grief in a lovely, strange, poignant way was after Clare lost her husband William. “When Clare gets off the phone, there’s a raccoon in her kitchen, on the counter…He is eating a slice of bacon bread. He’s holding it in his small, nimble, and very human black hands. He looks at her over the edge of the bread, like a man peering over his glasses. A fat, bold, imperturbable man with a twinkle in his dark eyes. Even though she knows better…Clare says, softly, “William.”
This book is not for the easily offended, nor those seeking gentleness or happy endings. But for anyone who desires a genius turn of phrase and language that will bounce around inside you for a few hours or days, it is a gift. I dream of writing like Ms. Bloom. (Not necessarily the subject matter, but the art.)
Bloom, Amy. Where the God of Love Hangs Out, Random House, 2010.
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It Happened One Autumn is the 2nd book in the Wallflowers Series and is my favorite so far. I love the enemies to lovers trope and this one has it in spades. It also has false friends, kidnapping, near-death danger, terrible mothers, unexpected love, scoundrels, pride and prejudice sort of dynamics, love potion magical perfumes, and defying of stodgy conventions. It is also nearly entirely set at Stony Cross Park, Hampshire, England, which has become my favorite English Manor of all the English Manors I have read about due to the beautiful details about the gardens, ponds, fields, and paths. I want to live there in my fantasies.
This story follows the hopes of the second Wallflower, the American heiress Lillian Bowman. She is beautiful, fearless (unless she is expected to eat British delicacies like calf’s head), and certain she will never experience love. She and her sister Daisy will be spending a month at Stony Cross Park under the annoying eye of the 8th Earl of Westcliff, Marcus. He is a serious man whose “constant striving for excellence led him to get the highest marks in school, to break all records in his chosen sports, and to judge himself far more harshly than anyone else ever could.” The American woman and the British man are both irritated by the mere presence of each other, so of course we know they are destined to have chemistry. And the ensuing developments are very satisfying.
Kleypas, Lisa. It Happened One Autumn, Avon Books, 2005.
These are images created from the description of Stony Cross Park, Hampshire in the novel:
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In London, 1843, it is most egregious to be a young lady out in society if you don’t check all the boxes considered desirable for marriage. Four young ladies find themselves on the wrong side of the marriage market, sitting alone together and decide to form an alliance, calling themselves The Wallflowers. They make pacts to help each other snag husbands and form fierce friendships along the way. And what, pray tell, are their crimes? One has fallen on hard times and does not have as much money as she used to because her father passed away and left more debt than wealth. Oh, and she’s old, a whopping 25 years old. Another has a stutter. And two are from America, for shame.
They decide to start with Annabelle because her situation is the direst, this being her last season due to her aged decrepitness of 25 years and near spinsterhood. And to her chagrin, the only male sniffing around her is Simon Hunt, a brash, outspoken, not-very-gentlemanly, non-noble, annoying man who grates on her nerves. He is fascinated with Annabelle and has even suggested that he will take her on as a mistress if she gets desperate enough. Needless to say, she is not impressed by his offer. The ensuing tale is delightful, playful, and full of twists and turns. There are even several extremely climactic and traumatic events near the end that kept me flipping pages late into the night.
I will give away that Annabelle’s situation is satisfactorily resolved, but that means we have three more Wallflowers to marry off. I can’t wait for their books. And hints have already been given throughout Secrets of a Summer Night by Lisa Kleypas as to who the next pairing might be.
Kleypas, Lisa. Secrets of a Summer Night, Avon Books, 2004.
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It has finally happened. All my life I’ve heard of the trope where a royal young lady falls in love with the stable boy, but I’ve never actually read a romance where that was present. Again The Magic by Lisa Kleypas opens in Hampshire, England, in 1832. Lady Aline Marsden is the oldest daughter of the Earl of Westcliff. Her best friend and closest confidant is the stable boy McKenna who she has grown up with. But their relationship has budded into much more than friendship as they have blossomed into young adults. And that spells disaster for the fate of McKenna if the Earl finds out. Separation, a terrible accident, crossing of continents, new friendships, and deaths occur in rapid succession.
Jump to 1844, a changing world, a new Earl (Aline’s brother, who is more open-minded), and visiting Americans. Is love possible for either Aline or her sister Livia? A desperate alcoholic is on the brink of no return as he drinks himself to death. A woman stays in hiding due to grief and unwillingness to be hurt ever again. A man seeks revenge. And the new Earl, Marcus Marsden tries to keep everything afloat with modernizing investments in American technologies, a radical idea that other gentry are not open to. There are so many different fascinating threads of character stories in this novel that kept me hooked, eager to know their outcomes. I adore the loving, but no-nonsense, Mrs. Faircloth who is a surrogate mother to both Aline and McKenna. In my opinion, this is the best book yet in the series. The development of Ms. Kleypas’s writing is richer, the descriptions more alive, and the character development better flushed out. I can’t wait for the next book.
Kleypas, Lisa. Again The Magic, Avon Books, 2004.
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