Busy Bees: Animals with Jobs

Show us the real bugs life. Animals of any variety doing the mundane, exciting, or otherwise indescribable tasks we apes do.

Prompt for post image:

Rules

  1. Follow the community’s rules above all else

  2. One comment and image per user

  3. Embed image directly in the post (no external link)

  4. Workflow/Prompt sharing encouraged (we’re all here for fun)

  5. At the end of the week each post will be scored according to the following grid

    Prize Points
    Most upvoted +3 points
    Would I hire this animal? (Are they actually doing their job) (new) +2 points
    Second most upvoted +1 point
    Theme is clear +1 point
    OP’s favorite (me, this week) +1 point
    Most original +1 point
    Last entry (to compensate for less time to vote) +1 point
    Prompt and workflow included +1 point

  6. Posts that are ex aequo (tied) will both get the points

  7. Winner gets to pick next theme! Good luck everyone and have fun!

Past entries

  1. Dieselpunk
  2. Goosebump Book
  3. Deep Space Wonders
  4. Fairy Tales
  5. A New Sport
  6. Monsters are Back to School
  7. War and Peace
  8. Distant lands
  9. Unreal Cartoons
  10. Sustainable Ecumenopolis
  11. Masks
  12. Mascots
  13. Old Gods, New Jobs
  14. Winter Festivities
  15. High Tech, Low Life
  16. Character Limit
  17. Gatsby’s Jazz Hands
  18. Reel to Canvas
  19. Cruelly Cute Characters
  20. Retro Sci-Fi
  21. Get Your Bard On!
  • ThelsimMEnglish
    10•11 months ago

    Geese have been used as guardian animals for hundreds of years.
    Therefore, Security Goose!


    Niji prompt: a cute goose wearing a security guard uniform and holding a flashlight, peering alertly around with narrowed eyes, the goose is on the lookout for intruders, night scene --ar 4:3 --niji 6

    I wanted to make an anthropomorphic goose at first. But this one is just too cute in his little jacket, hat and… flashlight holder? Don’t think too hard about that last one please :)

    A few extras:

    Edit: apparently all the links to the discord images are broken, so I had to re-link them :(
    I guess that’s on me for being so lazy :)

    • @BallShapedManEnglish
      3•11 months ago

      Would you mind sharing how you got that art style? It’s fantastic!!

      • ThelsimMEnglish
        4•11 months ago

        I used Niji Journey, an anime trained version of Midjourney.
        They recently released an alpha version 6, so it felt like a good excuse to use it for the challenge :)

    • @[email protected]OPEnglish
      1•11 months ago

      Congrats, you came 1st!

      I loved how vibrant this piece was, and a goose would make the ultimate guard animal.

      Now you have the responsibility for arranging next weeks contest!

      Please accept this trophy

      • ThelsimMEnglish
        2•11 months ago

        Thank you! I love the trophy, so distinguished!

        I’m going to need a moment to think of a new challenge, I didn’t expect to win :)