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[Community Challenge 41] Pedal to the Metal: From Cute to Brutal

Prompt for my image :

Theme This week’s theme is Pedal to the Metal : From Cute to Brutal. Let's take a cutesy character, a mild fairy tale, or your kid's favorite show, and turn it into a representation of heavy metal music imagery.

Rules

Follow the community’s rules above all else
One comment and image per user
Embed image directly in the post (no external link)
Workflow/Prompt sharing encouraged (we’re all here for fun and learning)
Posts that are tied will both get the points
The challenge runs for 7 days from now on
Down votes will not be counted

Scores

At the end of the challenge each post will be scored:

Prize	Points
Most upvoted	+3 points
Second most upvoted	+2 point
Third most upvoted	+1 point
OP's favorite	+1 point
Most original	+1 point
Last two entries (to compensate for less time to vote)	+1 point
Prompt and workflow included	+1 point
Boring joke making a reference to any metal in the periodic table, be it heavy or not :)	-1 point

The winner gets to pick next theme! As always, have fun everyone!

Previous entries

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It's been 9 days since this challenge has started. I can understand if @Trollivier@sh.itjust.works is busy with daily life, but I just wanted to post the initial scores such as they are.
I'll leave it up to Trollivier to fill in "OP's Favorite", "Most Original" and declare a winner.

Name	Upvotes	Upvote points	Last two	Prompt	Total
WhatsHerBucket	10	3	0	1	4
Halcyon	9	2	0	1	3
thelsim	9	2	0	1	3
Deceptichum	7	1	0	1	2
PeriodicallyPedantic	7	1	0	1	2
Itrytoblenderrender	2	0	1	1	2
allo	2	0	1	1	2
GraniteM	5	0	0	1	1
cloudless	5	0	0	1	1
Dindonmasker	5	0	0	1	1
Ziggurat	4	0	0	1	1
remotelove	5	0	0	0	0
merde	5	0	0	0	0

PS: I don't mind making this overview for the next challenge as well.
I made a python script and some SQL to generate this result which removes a lot of the tedium.

So this really, really helped! Thanks for othis intiative. Was in a rush this morning but was still able to give the prizes within a few minutes.
- You're welcome! :)
  Glad to see it helped, I know how tedious it can be to collect all that data.
Thank you I'll take care of it this afternoon.
- Sure, take your time :)

Tinkerbell and the Destroyers on the 2024 Bad Fingers World Tour

Fingers are hard :(
My prompt started with: tinkerbell death metal band
It ended with: the band should have a dark, gothic appearance with black and silver attire, possibly adorned with spikes and chains. Their wings can have a more jagged, bat-like appearance, and the makeup can be heavy with black eyeliner and dark lipstick. The background can be a dark forest with a mystical, eerie atmosphere.
This was the 2nd choice (and not an entry).

Yes, I saw it said heavy metal in the prompt, but the heavy metal fairies just didn’t cut it.
- Of all cute things to metallize, you chose Tinkerbell. Great idea, and my favorite as well, which puts you in first place! Congrats! P.S. : You have no idea how hard it was to generate the metal horns with Midjourney! So it's well deserved :)
- How do we vote for the 2nd choice?
  
  It was a tough call! What do you like about it?
- Feels more black than death, but that's cool.

Raijin's Wrath

Prompt: Pikachu in the style of a Black Metal cover artwork, looking very angry and evil, screaming, with sharp teeth, wrinkled skin, corpse paint and a double viking axe guitar. There's a cryptic thorny black metal band logo above its head. In the background there's a Transylvanian medieval castle, dead trees, a crescent moon and some crows. The whole picture is in greyscales only.
- Congratulation my friend, you get the 3rd place for that very worthy verion of Pikachu. Shall I call it Pukachu? :) (You would have scored a "OP's favorite" point with the second picture in the list of your alternatives). Good job!
- I tried to make a Pikachu too, but they all came out looking stuffed. I didn't even think of making it like a comic book. Idky.
  Good job
  
  I really had difficulty to decide which picture I was going to upload here, I got many different results that were great. Here some others:

Prompt: airbrush drawing, heavy metal style, of a pink Care Bear with a heart on its belly, pointing his sword high towards the sky and shouting, looking up at the dark sky, wearing a chainmail loincloth, on a mountain in hell, red flames in the background, highly detailed, symmetrical composition, dramatic lighting --ar 3:4 --stylize 75
On a side note, to whomever wins this challenge, I would love to see a reverse to this theme as well :)
- This makes me think of the VR game no more rainbows! It looks cool! Care bear gone berserk!
  
  First thing I thought was "Manowar, Manowar, living on the road!" - Kings of Metal.
- You get the second place, along with the "Most original" mention. Congrats! The strong reference to Manowar made it happen :)
  
  Awesome! 🤘

Anne of Black Gables

I'ma be honest, the little I know of black metal fashion comes from Vegan Black Metal Chef, but as always, once I got an idea in my head I couldn't let go of it.
- Permanently Deleted
  
  I don't think I've ever read it, tbh... But growing up in Atlantic Canada, she is inescapable.

::: spoiler mp4 alt.

:::
Prompt: The Gingerbread Man from Shrek as a Heavy Metal Guitarist in a hot oven/hell themed background, death metal makeup made from confectionary.
Ran through Bing & Luma.

Prompt: A metal rock band with pomeranian performers playing instruments with their paws (Copilot)

Woah Momma!

Made with NightCafe. Evolution from this image (direct descendant from bottom right)

Prompt: "(Johnny bravo a muscular man with a large blonde pompadour opaque black sunglasses wearing a black t-shirt:1.2) (flexing his muscles and playing an electric guitar:1.1) (standing on a mountain of skulls with an erupting volcano in the background:1.1) (frank frazetta Boris vallejo heavy metal album cover painted art style:1.1)"
- Heavy Metal Jonny Bravo is just Duke Nukem
- Upper left is such a nice AI whoopsie 🤣

- i liked this more but chose naruto over mickey as mickey is still cute and the theme is "… to brutal"

Pretty simple. Hello kitty with the lyrics of a gruesome song. I also added human as a negative prompt.
Unstability.ai ::: spoiler prompt Hello kitty Screams were so loud, the tearing of flesh caused agonizing pain Wrought-iron tines did penetrate the skull Holes through the bones, holes through the organs Powerful thrusts of hatred from the blackest of souls Piercing the skin with violence so brutal, cannot be explained This evil is never contained By stabbing the bones, by stabbing the organs Powerful thrusts of hatred will claim one more soul Gouging attack, punctured Vicious assault, torture Gashing away, ruptured Heinous relief, die Dispersal of bones, decaying of organs Powerful thrusts of hatred, life from the living I stole Killing again with violence so brutal cannot be explained This evil has always sustained Gouging attack punctured Vicious assault, torture Gashing away, ruptured Heinous relief, die Screams were so loud, the tearing of flesh caused agonizing pain Wrought-iron tines did penetrate the skull Penetrate the skull Penetrate the skull Penetrate the skull Pitchfork impalement Savagely torn and covered in blood Murdered relentlessly, lacking remorse for what has been done As the next victim screams "Pitchfork impalement!" Gouging attack, punctured Vicious assault, torture Gashing away, ruptured Heinous relief, die :::
- it probably sounds like this
  Muffin Purper-Gurk

A chibi cute catgirl with sickass tattoos, gothic Lolita dress, plays heavy metal,has fangs, plays bass, on stage, in front of a crowd
Model Blue Pencil XL
I finally took the time to re-install a local version of SD after changing PC in the spring, so I have now my own comfyUI rather than an online version (tbh, getimg.ai provides a good service for the price) So I tried something simple to test comfyUI, and here it is. !

Metal adventures of Elsa. The workflow is embedded in this Image (Catbox)

Is that Dani Filth in the background?
- If it is, it's unintentional. Kinda looks like a mix of Dani and Jesus.

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