#darkbuildings

Shadows in the ruined city.

• Model: AIVision

• Size: 1792 X 1008 (1.81 MP)

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  • Prompt: A masterpiece of dark landscape painting with elements of post-apocalyptic mysticism. An oil painting executed using the impasto technique. A night walk through post-apocalyptic London. Vague humanoid silhouettes. Ruins of buildings. The outline of London Bridge is visible in the background. Predominantly dark tones. An atmosphere of mystical fear. Enigmatic green lights in the fog. Red stars in the night sky. Full-size image.
  • Using base image: No
  • Aspect Ratio: landscape_wide

Mystery in a Snowy Town at Dusk

• Model: FluX

• Size: 1920 X 1080 (2.07 MP)

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  • Prompt: Dark gothic fantasy street scene in an big town in winter, hyper-detailed and cinematic. traffik lights shine through the mist, flickering across rain-slick street that reflect like pools of liquid shadow. Heavy mist rolls through the alley, swallowing distant figures into mystery. The sky burns with dramatic chiaroscuro — storm-tossed clouds in crimson, deep indigo, and smoldering ember tones — swirling like a painted baroque ceiling. Climbing vines twist like black veins against the stone walls. The entire atmosphere is moody, gothic, and theatrical, layered with texture, fog, and volumetric light beams cutting through shadow. Painterly yet ultra-realistic, inspired by Caravaggio’s light and shadow, with hints of Brian Froud’s eerie fantasy and Ghibli’s depth, but in a darker, baroque palette. HDR intensity, strong contrasts, gothic ambience,
  • Using base image: No
  • Aspect Ratio: landscape_wide

Misty Streets Beneath a Golden Sunset

• Model: AIVision

• Size: 1024 X 1024 (1.05 MP)

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  • Prompt: The Perpetual Twilight of Aethelburg In the perpetually somber city of Aethelburg, where the sky hangs like a perpetually bruised canvas and rain is not merely weather but a constant, weeping presence, Elias has loved Elara for as long as he can remember. Their childhood was a blur of shared whispers in crumbling alleyways and hushed dreams under the eaves of decaying gothic architecture, but as they grew, so too did the unspoken chasm between them. Aethelburg itself mirrors their stagnant affection. Once a vibrant mercantile hub, it now slowly drowns in its own melancholy, its grand squares empty save for the sheen of constant puddles, its ornate buildings shedding their grandeur like tears. The gas lamps cast faint, wavering halos against the perpetual twilight, illuminating only the immediate, never the distant hope. Elara, with her quiet grace and eyes that hold the same muted grey as the city's skies, remains oblivious, or perhaps willfully ignorant, of Elias's devotion. He has tried, in his own diffident way, to bridge the gap – a carefully pressed wildflower left on her doorstep, a half-written poem tucked into a book he knew she'd read, a lingering touch that went unnoticed. Each attempt is swallowed by the city's oppressive dampness, much like his feelings are consumed by her gentle, unseeing smile. As the years turn, marked only by the shifting intensity of the rain, Elias finds himself a silent fixture in her life, a shadow in Aethelburg's unending dusk. He watches her from afar, a specter of unspoken desire. His love is a whispered prayer against the roar of the downpour, a fragile ember in a city that has forgotten the sun. The question isn't whether she will ever reciprocate, but whether his love, like Aethelburg itself, is destined to fade into a gentle, watery oblivion, forever unanswered, forever clinging to the hope of a dawn that may never break.
  • Using base image: No
  • Aspect Ratio: square

Alleyway 2

• Model: AIVision

• Size: 1024 X 1024 (1.05 MP)

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  • Prompt: Nighttime in an alleyway in South Philly, midsummer. Vines and night-blooming flowers cascade over concrete and wooden fences. Windows glow orange with lamps. A church faces the end of the alleyway, and its stained-glass windows are alight.
  • Using base image: No
  • Aspect Ratio: square

Dark city

• Model: DaVinci2

• Size: 1152 X 864 (1.00 MP)

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  • Prompt: Dark dreamscape, surreal creatures, distorted reality, eerie atmosphere, nightmarish figures, chaotic cityscape, haunting shadows, twisted architecture, deep abyss, psychological horror, monstrous entities, nightmarish visions, dark fantasy, mysterious fog, glowing eyes, unsettling colors, digital art, high contrast, dramatic lighting, by H.R. Giger and Zdzisław Beksiński, ArtStation.
  • Using base image: No
  • Aspect Ratio: landscape

The Day That Curly Billy Shot Down Crazy Sam McGee

• Model: DaVinci2

• Size: 880 X 1168 (1.03 MP)

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  • Prompt: The Day That Curly Billy Shot Down Crazy Sam McGee
  • Using base image: Yes

Surreal Figures Amidst Vibrant Blooms

• Model: DaVinci2

• Size: 2064 X 2064 (4.26 MP)

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  • Prompt: A surreal painting featuring two large-headed, large-eyed frilly figures, reminiscent of Modigliani and Chris Ryniac styles. The figures stand tall, with elongated necks and exaggerated features, wearing vibrant attire. The blue sky stretches above them, and a quaint, small blue and white house sits in the background. The overall atmosphere of the painting is dreamlike, with a sense of whimsy and wonder.
  • Using base image: Yes

Nighttime

• Model: DaVinci2

• Size: 1152 X 896 (1.03 MP)

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  • Prompt: (Ricardo Yan:3) plain contemporary queer urban (made of twinkling light:3) (minimalist:3) (Hsiao-Ron Cheng:3) shadows chiaroscuro double exposure
  • Using base image: No
  • Aspect Ratio: landscape

Misty Streets and Bats: A Vintage Chase

• Model: DaVinci2

• Size: 896 X 1152 (1.03 MP)

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  • Prompt: Victorian man runs on the cobblestone road chased by a school of bats forming the massive silhouette of a menacing Wolf Jaws, but the school is made up of a myriad of small, various winged bats. Their bodies swirling in an uncanny and surreal formation. The misty fog ripples unnaturally around the bats, with shadows and streaks of light casting an eerie glow. The scene blends dark surrealism, night creatures, fluid dynamics, and ethereal moonlight, enhancing the tension and fear in the chase.
  • Using base image: No
  • Aspect Ratio: portrait

Moonlit Mysteries of a Gothic Village

• Model: DaVinci2

• Size: 1016 X 1016 (1.03 MP)

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  • Prompt: Dream... fantasy... surreal
  • Using base image: Yes

Steampunk Train Amidst Dark Enchanted Forest

• Model: DaVinci2

• Size: 1336 X 768 (1.03 MP)

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  • Prompt: Bringing the otherworldly imagination from the brain to the canvas, Jacek Yerka creates Mechanical Momentum, The works of Eyvind Earle and Hovik Zohrabyan transport the ethereal imagination from the mind to the canvas, creating a vision of the future. It is a grandiose and sublime Andean cyberpunk-futuristic multistory locomotive, shrouded in a haze of white steam. The piece is an oil painting on canvas in the photorealistic 4K style, with intricate details and a dynamic lighting effect that is both beautiful and captivating. The use of watercolor, pastel, and wet-on-wet techniques adds to the overall aesthetic appeal of the work, making it a truly unique and award-winning piece.
  • Using base image: Yes

The Hound of the Baskervilles

• Model: DaVinci2

• Size: 1296 X 1776 (2.30 MP)

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  • Prompt: Sherlock Holmes and Dr Waston with a large black rabies monstrous canine held in steel chains, mysterious, dark, poignant. colors rose, gold, rust, burgundy, black. soft watercolor extra water in Art Deco by Annigoni, Egon Schiele, Milo Manara, Botticelli, Catrin Welz-Stein, Jean Metzinger, Klimt, perfect eyes, perfect hands & face, highly detailed, complementary colors, hyper detailed. Watercolor and ink splatter, dynamic pose, dark blue background, unreal engine, greg rutkowski, loish, rhads, beeple, makoto shinkai and lois van baarle, ilya kuvshinov, rossdraws, tom bagshaw, alphonse mucha, global illumination, detailed and intricate environment, chiaroscuro lit contrast.
  • Using base image: Yes