In response to the Alien Art Hive Community's Inktober Prompts that were part of their Cosmic Creations Edition #6 Contest, Cosmic Creations Edition #6 is LIVE: INKTOBER PROMPTS, members were encouraged to choose a prompt theme from the Inktober Prompts list for their entry into the contest.
After my entry into the contest with Prompt #17 - DEMON which I published on 9/23, I decided to take the Inktober concept one step further. I will focus on the remaining 30 Prompts on the list, beginning with Prompt #1. How fun the themes will be preparing my projects utilizing the mixed media art themes. If a Drabble story (100 words) or other flash fiction emerges, then all the more fun!
Below is my project for Inktober Prompt #15:
As the time of the reckoning in the 23rd century came full force, humanoids emerged as Earth's solution to peacekeeping. Each country became no better than a police state choking individuals' rights under the guise of maintaining law and order.
The prototype mandate usually meant an extension of each country's leadership. Scales tipped toward autocratic. Ruthless dictators battled for a close second. The authority given these glossy, hollow socket, silvery hard-shelled excuses for men that patrolled the rim of their country's perimeters was wide-ranging.
As they patrolled the cities, fettering innocents by the hundreds who pleaded for compassion and empathy, humanoids meticulously guarded their left shoulders. Programmed to disregard pleas for leniency, five layers of armor protected their own precious secret.
Zodon's heart beat erratically as the squeal of horror permeated his hollow sockets. A sudden instinct to raise his arms to his head, blocking out the familiar cries, gave way to sobbing as tears rolled sideways down his skeleton face.
He turned away from the crowd, backed up, and ran toward the empty field. An intense headache pounded his skull. Flashes of a human male, female, and small child rose up, blinding his computer chip.
As the electrical impulses attempted to reconnect, Zoron removed his blade.
He tore off the hard shield protecting the case underneath. With one thrust, the blade penetrated his human heart.
Zoron fell to the ground, writhing in pain as the memories of his family flooded his skull, filling it with blood. The blood from the atrocity he witnessed as he stood by and allowed his fellow humanoids to destroy them.
My approach to this prompt #15 - Dagger, was one of futuristic. The pure fractals I created played a significant role in the theme of this prompt. Serving as a color dimension heart, it served as memories encapsulated inside a humanoid being. The free-sourced image of the dagger was also significant in piercing and destroying the heart.
To assist in creating the humanoid, I utilized StarryAI, a stable diffusion program. I was pleased with the result from my description. Below are my steps:
StarryAI Text input:
"Man throwing dagger toward a humanoid likeness of himself contained in the mirror, hyper-details, realistic."
Style: Fantasy
Runtime: 50
Seed: 8113187547
StarryAI Result:
Once I accumulated all images, blending them to design the scene is where the magic happens as I uploaded them into Canva. Below are my procedures beginning from left to right:
Started project with blank, white canvas.
Switched canvas background to black and added stable diffusion android image.
Duplicated android to fill the canvas.
Added colorful ball fractal tor represent the android's human heart.
Removed background of colorful heart fractal and reposition it.
Added human face. Removed background and repositioned it inside heart.
Added the hand with sword.
Removed sword background and repositioned it over the android's left shoulder.
Added the veil fractal for texture. Duplicated it, then competed project.
Thanks for taking the time to view my post. I hope you like my mixed media art project for Inktober Prompt #15.
SOURCES:
a) JustClickindiva's Footer created in Canva utilizing its free background and images used with permission from discord admins.
b) Unless otherwise noted, all photos taken by me with my (i) Samsung Galaxy 10" Tablet, (ii) Samsung Phone, & (iii) FUJI FinePix S3380 - 14 Mega Pixels Digital Camera
c) Purple Butterfly part of purchased set of Spiritual Clip Art for my Personal Use
d) All Community logos, banners, page dividers used with permission of Discord Channel admins.
e) Ladies of Hive banner used with permission of and in accordance with the admin's guidelines
f) Thumbnail Image created by me in Canva.
g) "Flames." What is Apophysis 2.09. https://flam3.com/
1 What is Stable Diffusion? StarryAI.Com. Online at: https://starryai.com/stable-diffusion
