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You can now vote for this week’s challenge!

  • Voting will be open for at least 24 hours.
  • Whichever entry gets the most votes, wins!
  • OP will cast deciding vote in case of tie
  • Voting will end when OP declares a winner.

Covert Cryptids

Prompt

snapshot, of A tall sasquatch in a business suit, wearing a hat and sunglasses, hiding behind a newspaper, trying to blend in with the crowd in a busy street, wide angle, shot with a disposable camera --ar 4:3 --v 6.1

Theme

Crypto-zoologists have been looking in the wrong places to find Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster and all those other creatures.
They’ve been living among us this entire time!

For this challenge create an image of a cryptid trying to blend in with human society.
Feel free to browse through the list in that link, there’s a couple of really fun ones I haven’t heard of before.
Edit: And here’s another even longer one. https://www.cryptidophilia.com/what-is-a-cryptid/

Voting process

Everyone can submit their image to this post. At the end of the week all images will be collected and shared in a new voting post wherein people can vote on their favorite image. This will be up for at least 24 hours before a winner is made.

There are no extra points to be earned, OP will decide on a winner in case of a tie.

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 but not required (we’re all here for fun and learning)
  • OP will declare winner in case of a tie
  • The challenge runs for at least 7 days from now on
  • Down votes will not be counted
  • Voting and final scoring will be done in a separate post.

Scores

At the end of the challenge the image with the most votes, wins! It’s that simple this time :)

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

Previous entries

  • ThelsimOPMEnglish
    11•2 months ago

    Trollivier

    @[email protected]

    Trying to find which “creature” to pick, and I though of the time I visited Iceland in 2013. We took a bus tour and the tour guide explained that local folklore spoke of the tales of elves living hidden in the mountains, and that a great part of the population actually thought they existed, her included, in a fun way, like she would like them to exist.

    So I thought that maybe she was one of the mountain elves living among us, but hidden in plain sight, as a tour guide.

    Prompt : a photorealistic render of a female folkloric Icelandic elf driving a tourist tour bus, and announcing what to look out for. We see an Icelandic landscape through the window. She is wearing a bus driver hat and is speaking to passengers with a big smile.

  • ThelsimOPMEnglish
    11•2 months ago

    Deceptichum

    @[email protected]

    Vannessi has been a model employee, always got her eyes on everything happening in the office.

    Flux, prompt: The Loch Ness Monster working as an accountant in a sea of cubicles

  • ThelsimOPMEnglish
    9•2 months ago

    HairyHarry

    @[email protected]

    Two on a business flight

    Platform: nightcafe

    Prompt: a man in business suite sitting in an airplane looking out of the window and seeing a winged flying horse between the clouds, Cinematic film still, shot on v-raptor XL, film grain, vignette, color graded, post-processed, cinematic lighting, 35mm film, live-action, best quality, atmospheric, a masterpiece, epic, stunning, dramatic

    Engine: Flux

  • @TehBamskiEnglish
    6•2 months ago

    Prompt: A covert Tarasque in Halloween disguise blending into the New York City crowd

    Platform: CoPilot

  • ThelsimOPMEnglish
    5•2 months ago

    Daemon Silverstein

    @[email protected]

    The secret society of the cryptid goatmen brotherhood (I don’t remember which prompt I used, but I used a fast SDXL model from Huggingface)

  • ThelsimOPMEnglish
    5•2 months ago

    WhatsHerBucket

    @[email protected]

    Starting Dalle prompt: Create a fierce-looking Jersey Devil dressed in a humiliating crossing guard uniform watching innocent people cross the street as they are picked up and dropped off

  • ThelsimOPMEnglish
    4•2 months ago

    Ziggurat

    @[email protected]

    Not sure whether it’s today’s theme, but let’s get a reptilian pope

    The pope is a reptilian, at the church altar, holds a golden cross, conspiracy theory

    Model being blue pencil XL

  • ThelsimOPMEnglish
    4•2 months ago

    ✧✨🌿Allo🌿✨✧

    @[email protected]

    Sorry about mine being the best

    prompt: ((((((an extrarare twohorned unicorn among a bunch of gazelles))))))

  • ThelsimOPMEnglish
    4•2 months ago

    And the voting is over!

    Name Score
    @[email protected] 10
    @[email protected] 10
    @[email protected] 8
    @[email protected] 7
    @[email protected] 6
    @[email protected] 6
    @[email protected] 5
    @[email protected] 5
    @[email protected] 4
    @[email protected] 3

    Deceptichum and Trollivier are tied for first place. Since Trollivier hosted the challenge most recently, I’ll give the win to Deceptichum. But both of you congratulations on first place!

    And a thank you to all of you who participated, I love the images all of you came up with.
    I hope to see you again next week!