For this assignment I picked the prompt “Stone-age Home Entertainment”. When I think of stone-age I think of cavemen living in caves (not sure if that is accurate to the era), but I thought it would be funny to make an image where cavemen are relaxing in a similar way to how modern humans relax. I started by deciding what I wanted my image to end up being: I would like the image to have 2-4 cavemen in a cave sitting in armchairs made of stone. The cavemen are looking at a wall of the cave which is covered in cave paintings in the style of the Lascaux cave paintings. The wall has drawings of animals in earthy ochre and sienna colors, and the animals in the drawings look like they’re in motion. The cavemen are sitting in front of the cave painting as though they are watching tv.
I also made a sketch of what I wanted the composition to look like roughly.
I used Bing image generator to create my AI images. The first prompt that I used was: cartoon picture of cavemen in a cave sitting and looking at cave paintings
These were the most successful images from this prompt:
I felt that these were an ok start, but the overall look was not what I wanted. The images were much more cartoony and cutesy than I was looking for, and I didn’t account for the AI image generation software not knowing what a cave painting was (although I thought the easels were funny).
For the next batch of images, I changed my prompt slightly. I was hoping to get a less cartoony style, and a cave art that looks more like an actual cave painting. I also wanted to see if I could get the cavemen sitting in stone armchairs. The prompt I used for the second round was: picture of cavemen in a cave sitting on chairs made of rock and looking at ancient cave paintings.
This round was much more successful. I found that the image looked pretty close to what I had imagined in my sketch! I was still hoping to get closer to what I was imagining, where the cave paintings on the walls looked more like prehistoric cave paintings of animals.
For the final round the prompt I used was: picture of cavemen in a cave sitting on chairs made of rock and looking at ancient cave paintings on a stone wall.
This image turned out pretty well, I thought that the way the AI software rendered the painting and the wall of the cave seemed more like an actual cave painting. Although I thought it was funny that the chairs that the cavemen are sitting in look like normal lawn chairs instead of rocks.
Over all this was a fun exercise and I thought that Bing image generator did a pretty good job creating images based on the prompts I gave.
Prompts used:
cartoon picture of cavemen in a cave sitting and looking at cave paintings
picture of cavemen in a cave sitting on chairs made of rock and looking at ancient cave paintings
picture of cavemen in a cave sitting on chairs made of rock and looking at ancient cave paintings on a stone wall