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## 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!

::: spoiler Prompt for post image:

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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!

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[-] Deceptichum@sh.itjust.works 10 points 7 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.

[-] BallShapedMan@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago
[-] Trollivier@sh.itjust.works 3 points 7 months ago

Very much deserved for the originality!

[-] Deceptichum@kbin.social 2 points 7 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?

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[-] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 10 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

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

[-] Itrytoblenderrender@lemmy.world 3 points 7 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?

[-] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 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.

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[-] BallShapedMan@lemmy.world 2 points 7 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!

[-] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 months ago

Thanks, friend!

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[-] Ziggurat@sh.itjust.works 7 points 7 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

[-] BallShapedMan@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

That's impressive!

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[-] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 7 points 7 months ago

promptA 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.

[-] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 3 points 7 months ago

Oh man, now I wish I had thought of musical farts.

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[-] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 6 points 7 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."

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[-] thelsim@sh.itjust.works 6 points 7 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 :)

[-] thelsim@sh.itjust.works 6 points 7 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

[-] BallShapedMan@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

I love it! Careful or you'll end up with a Lego game after you!

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[-] merde@sh.itjust.works 6 points 7 months ago
[-] quinacridone@lemmy.ml 3 points 7 months ago

I can't wait for the day you win this competition, I just want to see what kind of bat-shit challenge you're going to come up with

[-] merde@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 months ago

i have a challenging idea but it won't be bat-shit at all

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[-] Trollivier@sh.itjust.works 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

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

[-] BallShapedMan@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

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

[-] Trollivier@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 months ago

Well... YEAH! Of course he does :D

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[-] Halcyon@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 7 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.

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[-] Itrytoblenderrender@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

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.

ParametersParameters

  • 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"

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[-] ItsAFake@lemmus.org 5 points 7 months ago

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

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[-] elvith@feddit.de 4 points 7 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 / WorkflowI 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"
  }

[-] Huckledebuck@sh.itjust.works 4 points 7 months ago

Copilot:

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

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[-] cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)
[-] elvith@feddit.de 3 points 7 months ago

you forgot a word. To summon the bot, mention it followed by "draw for me "

[-] boblemmy@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

The legendary grandma bard.

Prompt

Generated using Easy Diffusion.

{
  "prompt": "the grandma bard, facing the camera, sitting and shouting in a medieval tavern full of various fantasy characters in (D&D):1.2, playing an small lute, oil paint, highly detailed",
  "seed": 794167639,
  "used_random_seed": true,
  "negative_prompt": "extra fingers, extra arms, extra legs, extra heads, extra eyes, 3D model, CG, render, doodle, cut, incomplete, partial, frame, border, text, subtitle, marquee, watermark, masks, church, bad_pictures easynegative BadDream Unspeakable-Horrors-Composition-4v negative_hand-neg",
  "num_outputs": 1,
  "num_inference_steps": 40,
  "guidance_scale": 7.5,
  "width": 768,
  "height": 512,
  "vram_usage_level": "balanced",
  "sampler_name": "euler_a",
  "use_stable_diffusion_model": "revAnimated_v122",
  "clip_skip": false,
  "use_vae_model": "vae-ft-mse-840000-ema-pruned",
  "stream_progress_updates": true,
  "stream_image_progress": false,
  "show_only_filtered_image": true,
  "block_nsfw": false,
  "output_format": "webp",
  "output_quality": 95,
  "output_lossless": false,
  "metadata_output_format": "none",
  "original_prompt": "the grandma bard, facing the camera, sitting and shouting in a medieval tavern full of various fantasy characters in (D&D):1.2, playing an small lute, oil paint, highly detailed",
  "active_tags": [],
  "inactive_tags": [],
  "use_face_correction": "GFPGANv1.4",
  "use_upscale": "RealESRGAN_x4plus",
  "upscale_amount": "4",
  "enable_vae_tiling": true,
  "use_embeddings_model": [
    "bad_pictures",
    "BadDream",
    "easynegative",
    "negative_hand-neg",
    "Unspeakable-Horrors-Composition-4v"
  ]
}

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