Today's subject is dragon portraits. As can be seen from the above examples, AI has rather a strong thought of what dragons look like and the different styles utilized during the generation of images change mainly the way they are presented. The cute guy with CGI kind graphics is not so different from Chinese shows a fewer 100 years ago. seemingly dragons are like that. The beginning of course is the Far East, which is China and Japan, due to the fact that there dragons appeared in art. They were symbols of large strength, but besides of wisdom and prosperity. Good overall. To list of Chinese inventions on P, like powder, porcelain, paper and umbrella you can undoubtedly add 1 on S: dragons.
The propt utilized during the generation was the simplest possible. 1 word Dragon and a kind word either by choosing 1 of the predefined in NightCafe, or by a verbal definition. Portraits of dragons are placed in groups. Click to open the selected image for better viewing. On full screen, these pictures look much better than as postage stamps. Even the colors are more saturated and nicer, so it is worth to open a post in the browser.
China. Colorful nan-hua woodcuts. They began to be made in the 5th century.
Japan, ukiyo-e woodcuts from Edo (1603 to 1868), so not long ago.
Dragons came from the East, so on the way 2 Russian illustrator Ivan Bilibin, although I don't know if he drew them. The dragons did not change in this journey in a visible way and the pictures as if Chinese.
And Greece. More like Medusa. There in ancient times, I don't think they've heard of dragons, but now we'll produce any antique ceramics with dragon images, changing history. Myths will become much richer.
And those in the trendy cartoon model lately. Now majestic and erstwhile dangerous creatures look like puppies. Gross!
Here a larger group obtained with different stylish settings. They look like portraits of the same specimen under different lighting conditions.
And the Cyberpunk style. I'm disappointed in him. I was hoping for more.
That's why I yet turned the prompt on ft to make it mine.
It came out interesting, it was at the end of the Steampunk dragons.
