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A highly detailed, stylized illustration inspired by the Iliad, showing a side-profile bust of an ancient Greek warrior in ornate armor, framed tightly from chest to top of helmet. The scene uses a warm, limited color palette dominated by deep burnt orange, dark red, muted gold, and near‑black shadows, with every surface filled by fine etched lines and swirling textures that mimic engraved metal and woodcut prints. The warrior wears a massive Corinthian-style helmet rendered in muted gold and bronze tones, with an intricate crest: a fan of long, hair‑like red plumes radiating outward, and a central relief of a pale, carved bird (like an eagle) stretching across the dome of the helmet, surrounded by tiny battlefield motifs and decorative patterns. Flowing black hair spills from under the helmet, drawn with dense, parallel strokes, while the exposed skin of the neck and lower face is mapped with swirling, topographic linework in warm tan tones, giving a carved, almost wood‑engraved look. The warrior is draped in a heavy red cloak that loops around the shoulders and chest, rendered with tight, concentric curves and folds that emphasize texture more than realism, with highlights in orange and shadows edging toward black. In the right side of the composition, a tall spear rises vertically, its wooden shaft drawn with straight, grain-like lines and its spearhead a flat, stylized dark metallic shape. The background is split into large fields of color: deep, almost black-green on the left behind the helmet, and a glowing, parchment‑like orange on the right, filled with faint, ghostly line-drawn figures and shapes that suggest other warriors or mythic scenes, as if etched into an ancient fresco. Overall style: hyper-detailed, graphic-novel or poster art with strong line engraving aesthetics, flat yet richly textured shading, minimal soft gradients, and a strong focus on ornamental detail, evoking a mythic, solemn, heroic mood appropriate to an Iliad-themed cover illustration.
I was thinking about redoing an old prompt I used, this time with one of the new DDG models. But I didn't care for the results. So I played the idea a bit and came up with this image. I asked Chat to describe it and got the long prompt you see here! This is the original original prompt:
Sing, O goddess, the anger of Achilles son of Peleus, that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans. Many a brave soul did it send hurrying down to Hades, and many a hero did it yield a prey to dogs and vultures, for so were the counsels of Jove fulfilled from the day on which the son of Atreus, king of men, and great Achilles, first fell out with one another.
This is the first stanza of The Iliad. I like to think this guy is either Achilles or Patroclus, the guy Achilles conned into fighting in his place - of course he was killed straight away!
