Don’t worry about overwhelming the community, we’re not even whelming right now :)

As far as putting some meaning behind the picture. It really depends on what kind of story or emotion you would like to portray. I usually start from what I want to show and work from there. Then usually I get distracted, end up with something that just makes me giggle and post that instead :)

Most important, just post what you like and what touches you.

Haunted by the past

Prompt: fantasy movie, close-up, a wanderer wearing a heavy robe and leaning on a staff, struggling to walk through a blizzard, the slender white luminescent ghosts of a mother and child follow behind the wanderer, the ghosts reach out to him, horizontal composition --ar 16:9 --v 7

Unfortunately @Trollivier@sh.itjust.works is not able to post a challenge this week.
@merde@sh.itjust.works, would you like to take over?

And here are the final scores:

Congratulations to Trollivier and Indiana Gnome! :)

Trollivier

@Trollivier@sh.itjust.works

Excellent challenge idea!

Thelsim

@thelsim@sh.itjust.works

Prompt: Movie poster in the style of Alien, featuring a man with glasses and a vacant expression, movie title “Allen” in bold letters small caps with the subtext “In space, no one can hear you die of boredom”, dark and eerie atmosphere, high contrast, cinematic design, sci-fi elements, mysterious lighting --ar 53:89 --v 7

merde alors

@merde@sh.itjust.works

Fun With A Pencil by Andrew Loomis.

https://archive.org/details/andrew-loomis-fun-with-a-pencil

It’s a fun book for beginners that mostly focuses on drawing characters.

It is an old book though, so it might contain some unpleasant caricatures further in.

The cheese must flow :)

And my runner-up:

Prompt: Movie poster in the style of Alien, featuring a man with glasses and a vacant expression, movie title “Allen” in bold letters small caps with the subtext “In space, no one can hear you die of boredom”, dark and eerie atmosphere, high contrast, cinematic design, sci-fi elements, mysterious lighting --ar 53:89 --v 7

Looks great to me, I love parodies! :)

That’s fine, let me know when you’re ready!

Thanks! This time I beat you to it with posting the scores :)
I’m passing the next challenge on to Cloudless since I won the second to last challenge as well.

Here are the final scores:

Looks like I win this round :)
But I’m happy to pass the honor of the next challenge on to the runner-up, @cloudless@feddit.uk

I got an ugly scar on my pinky from a bullying incident at school when I was 12. It’s not like this was their intention, but it got out of hand and a door slammed hard on my finger.
I had to get rushed to the hospital, got stitches and a massive bandage for half a year.
The bullies never apologized and it got brushed off as an accident.

It’s a reminder of bad times during my teenage years and I still get sad when I look at it.

merde alors

@merde@sh.itjust.works

Trollivier

@Trollivier@sh.itjust.works

Thelsim

@thelsim@sh.itjust.works

I think I kind of misinterpreted the theme and focused on my personal process. But now that I’ve put so much effort into this, I don’t want to keep it to myself.
So feel free to disqualify me if it doesn’t fit the theme :)

No prompt this time. I spend a long time trying to get the consistency right with a lot of tweaks here and there.
And yes, I used another program to stitch them together.

Deceptichum

@Deceptichum@quokk.au