## Get your bard on! Share an image of a bard in your favorite setting, or in a unique and clever situation, getting their bard on!

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## Rules

1. Follow the community’s rules above all else 2. One comment and image per user 3. Embed image directly in the post (no external link) 4. Workflow/Prompt sharing encouraged (we’re all here for fun) 5. At the end of the week each post will be scored according to the following grid  

    | Prize | Points |     | — | — |     | Most upvoted | +3 points | | Bard playing an instrument +2 (new) |     | Second most upvoted | +1 point |     | Theme is clear | +1 point |     | OP’s favorite (me, this week) | +1 point |     | Most original | +1 point |     | Last entry (to compensate for less time to vote) | +1 point |     | Prompt and workflow included | +1 point |     |  | +1 point |

6. Posts that are ex aequo (tied) will both get the points 7. Winner gets to pick next theme! Good luck everyone and have fun!

## Past entries

1. Dieselpunk 2. Goosebump Book 3. Deep Space Wonders 4. Fairy Tales 5. A New Sport 6. Monsters are Back to School 7. War and Peace 8. Distant lands 9. Unreal Cartoons 10. Sustainable Ecumenopolis 11. Masks   12. Mascots   13. Old Gods, New Jobs 14. Winter Festivities 15. High Tech, Low Life 16. Character Limit 17. Gatsby’s Jazz Hands 18. Reel to Canvas 19. Cruelly Cute Characters 20. Retro Sci-Fi

  • DominusOfMegadeus
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    I came up with a wide variety of stuff, but this one hit different

    Midjourney Prompt: a beautiful buxom female bard singing to a group of enthralled patrons in a destroyed post apocalyptic setting, high definition, realistic, wide angle, long shot, “book of Eli” style, “last of us” style

    • @[email protected]
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      34 months ago

      This is beautiful. For me the girl seems to be a symbol of hope and also rememberance of the the times before the apocalypse. Would love to see this in a series like the last of us. What song would she play?

      • DominusOfMegadeus
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        24 months ago

        It would have to be something original. I can work with an AI on the story. I’m already doing one story and one screenplay with GPT4.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      24 months ago

      Before I read your prompt I was about to say it feels a lot like The Last of Us. You nailed the vibe!

        • Deceptichum
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          😅Haha well uh thank you for it! I was expecting you to win as yours was so evocative.

          • DominusOfMegadeus
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            24 months ago

            Well it did prompt me to begin a story, so, worth it!

  • @Deceptichum
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    104 months ago

    No longer shall the tyranny of my image posts not directly showing up in the comments oppress me, for I have made an alt. account just for entering these challenges.

      • Trollivier
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        34 months ago

        Very much deserved for the originality!

      • Deceptichum
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        24 months ago

        Oh wow, thank you! I’m going to print this off and hang it on my fridge.

        So I have to make the post for next weeks contest now, right?

    • Deceptichum
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      Used ChatGPT for this, so the prompt was modified over multiple iterations.

      Prompt started as: a portrait resolution magazine cover title “BARD” the text is partially behind the head of a Bard. A man is sitting on the toilet reading it while his lute is resting against the wall beside him

      and it ended with multiple variations of: Make the magazine be tastefully covering the middle of his body.

      ChatGPT was showing mad dong at times.

      This is inspired by my guitarist friend who take their hobby with them everywhere.

  • @[email protected]
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    74 months ago

    prompt

    A bard has knocked over a party of 10 warriors, using the force of his energetic flute playing. the music is visible in the air. the warriors are comically laid out on their backs, in a semicircle in front of the bard. the image should be realistic, and the background should be a medieval town square.

    I like how he seems to be having a musical fart, too.

  • @Ziggurat
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    74 months ago

    Workflow I wanted to play a bit with the hard edge control net which forces the model to get the shape out of another image. I’ll be honest, my first idea was Jimmy Hendrix playing guitar on his pack, but it was to complicated for AI, so I took Kurt cobain in MTV unplugged

    Image

    Then the rest is pretty straightforward

    Prompt An elf plays lute in a medieval tavern, D&D bard, candle light and candlestick,highly detailed

    Model InfiniAnimeXL

    Sampler DPM solver++

    And the classic fix face

  • @[email protected]M
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    64 months ago

    In the Bingilator:

    “A gestalt sailor moon bard that is made of many many smaller bards. The gestalt bard is playing a guitar while surfing.”

  • Trollivier
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    Here’s my entry.

    I wanted a typical D&D bard who is using his charisma and performance to enthrall a crowd as a diversion.

    Here is the prompt used : a charismatic fantasy elven bard in the style of 80s cartoons, playing his lute with red and pink hearts all around him

    • @[email protected]OP
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      24 months ago

      Fantastic! He looks like he gets the party in trouble all the time by trying to seduce the dragon or whatever.

      • Trollivier
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        24 months ago

        Well… YEAH! Of course he does :D

      • Trollivier
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        Thanks! What does “theme clear” means?

        And workflow? I guess it’s when the prompt is shared?

          • Trollivier
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            24 months ago

            “theme clear” means what though?

            • @[email protected]OP
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              14 months ago

              Reading is hard… That what you were going for is clear or that the theme of the contest is clearly in your submission. I’m not completely sure but I gave people points if either were true.

              • Trollivier
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                24 months ago

                Thanks. Reading is hard but misunderstanding is easy when English isn’t your first language :)

                • @[email protected]OP
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                  14 months ago

                  Fair enough. Though I was just pointing out I missed the entire sentence with your first question.

  • ThelsimM
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    64 months ago


    Prompt: lego diorama of a bard playing the lute and singing loudly, with an angry king in the background, at a royal court --ar 8:5 --v 6.0

    Just wanted to make an obnoxious bard who’s unable to shut up :)

    • ThelsimM
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      64 months ago

      Still busy making extras, these don’t count :)


      Prompt: graphic novel of a bard running and playing the lute, the bard is carrying a backpack full of treasure, an angry dragon is chasing the bard in the background, facing the camera, dynamic lighting --v 6.0 --ar 8:5


      Prompt: fantasy movie still of a medieval shouting bard shredding the lute, on his knees in a castle courtyard, fireworks and colored lights cast a magical atmosphere --v 6.0 --ar 8:5


      Prompt: fantasy movie still of a happy singing bard running and playing the lute, being chased by an angry knight in the background, dynamic lighting --v 6.0 --ar 8:5

      • ThelsimM
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        24 months ago

        Most original! Yes!
        Thank you for the challenge, it was fun!

        By the way, I’m glad to see I’m not the only one who resorts to spreadsheets for calculating the scores :)

  • @[email protected]
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    Even evil minions like some good entertainment!

    Made with comfyui. The base Image is 1024 x 1024. I did some outpainting on the base image and also one pass with the face Detailer. The comfyui Workflow should be embedded in the picture.

    Prompt:

    A kobold bard is playing a lute on a stage in a crowded fantasy tavern. The kobold has a unique expression, grinning but with a hint of despair. The tavern is filled with an eclectic mix of dangerous-looking creatures from a Dungeons and Dragons setting, all appearing inebriated. Some creatures are throwing mugs onto the stage. The atmosphere is lively yet slightly chaotic, with a medieval fantasy aesthetic. The lighting is dim, with candles and lanterns casting shadows across the scene.

    Parameters

    Parameters

    • checkpoint Base Sampler , Face Detailer and Upscaler: xl13AsmodeusSFWNSFW_v22BakedVAE
    • sampler Base Sampler: dpmpp_3m_sde
    • scheduler base sampler: karras
    • steps Base sampler: 60
    • CFG Base sampler: 8
    • checkpoint outpainting: inpaintjuggerxlinpaintV8

    For the parameters of the outpainting and upscaler: Please check the embedded comfyui workflow.

    Loras:

    • xl_more_art-full_v1
    • add-detai-xl
    • Paseer-SDXL-HorrorSongV2

    I also use a custom node “SDXL Prompt Styler” with the Option “Horror”

  • @[email protected]
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    54 months ago

    Jim Maremanson

    Copilot-Prompt: An underwater scene with sea creatures and a mermaid bard, who looks similar to Jim in medieval clothing, playing on a lute. Before him on the sea floor as an audience are gathered all kinds of marine animals: fish, crabs, starfish, octopus, dolphin, shark, turtle, seahorse, coral, seaweed. The atmosphere is aquatic, there’s blue and green light filtering from the surface and bubbles and sand and shells.

  • It's A Faaaahhkeah!
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    54 months ago

    a bard playing an electric Lute on stage to a stadium full of fantasy beings --ar 2:1 --v 6.0

  • @Huckledebuck
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    44 months ago

    Copilot:

    a photo realistic image of a bard playing a lute and mesmerizing a bunch of demons into dancing

  • @[email protected]
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    44 months ago

    I saw “bard” and thought of the typical DnD setting in a tavern. But since were using generative AI, I thought should do “Google Bard”

    Prompt / Workflow

    I used Stable Diffusion running on my PC with Fooocus 2.1.864.

    The first step was the pixel art bard on the CRT, which was generated using the following prompt/settings:

    {
      "Prompt": "a pixel art bard with a lute and a chat window displayed on an 90s style CRT PC monitor, the bard is in the colors yellow, green, red and blue",
      "Negative Prompt": "",
      "Fooocus V2 Expansion": "",
      "Styles": "['SAI Pixel Art']",
      "Performance": "Quality",
      "Resolution": "(1152, 896)",
      "Sharpness": 2,
      "Guidance Scale": 4,
      "ADM Guidance": "(1.5, 0.8, 0.3)",
      "Base Model": "juggernautXL_v8Rundiffusion.safetensors",
      "Refiner Model": "None",
      "Refiner Switch": 0.5,
      "Sampler": "dpmpp_2m_sde_gpu",
      "Scheduler": "karras",
      "Seed": 7611562024347322673,
      "LoRA 1": "sd_xl_offset_example-lora_1.0.safetensors : 0.1",
      "Version": "v2.1.864"
      }
    

    Second step was loading the image as an input and using inpaint -> modify content with the empty area in the top right marked and the following settings (negative prompt, as it somehow really likes to render pixel art cats?):

    {
      "Prompt": "a speech bubble containing the text google bard",
      "Negative Prompt": "cat",
      "Fooocus V2 Expansion": "",
      "Styles": "['SAI Pixel Art']",
      "Performance": "Quality",
      "Resolution": "(1024, 1024)",
      "Sharpness": 2,
      "Guidance Scale": 4,
      "ADM Guidance": "(1.5, 0.8, 0.3)",
      "Base Model": "juggernautXL_v8Rundiffusion.safetensors",
      "Refiner Model": "None",
      "Refiner Switch": 0.5,
      "Sampler": "dpmpp_2m_sde_gpu",
      "Scheduler": "karras",
      "Seed": 8793801103451750926,
      "LoRA 1": "sd_xl_offset_example-lora_1.0.safetensors : 0.1",
      "Version": "v2.1.864"
      }