Matt Sheridanさんのイラストまとめ

I officially give in. I welcome my new friend and collaborator. Get used to seeing this guy in everything I do, I guess.

Okay, wow. Removing the handful of names that remained at the end of my previous testing process (Richard Corben, Paul Lehr, Carcosa) from that earlier, non-Beksiński prompt did not get rid of the blue figure.

Anyway, turns out it was that Midjouney favorite, Beksiński! I don't associate his work with blue cloaks, and I had his name weighted pretty low in the mix, but it MUST have been him. The moment I took him out, I got this. Dunno who this is, but he ain't wearing a cloak!

For an odd moment, I thought that maybe the cloaked figure had to be Jack Kirby, because one preview image, instead of including my phantom, featured what could only be a mutant caricature of the King.

For a moment, I thought the culprit had to be "Star Wars", because there was a Darth Vaderish look to at least one of the figures. And other folks in that IP wear cloaks. Not a lotta blue ones, though... Anyway, removing it didn't help.

More variations. Throwing in the word "ruins" made it a bit crowded in some cases, but worked in others.

Little tweaks didn't do a lot to make it better or worse. It sure definitely looks like the Night Land, to me.

Giving it stuff like "bleak, gray, dark, black, dead, wasteland, horror, post-apocalyptic, threatening, badlands, vast, empty, distant, idol, monument, clouds, mist, lights, aurora, arid, cold, silent, doom" got the right kinda stuff immediately.

Another quick Midjourney project: The Night Land, titular apocalyptic future of William Hope Hodgson's extremely interesting but rather difficult 1912 novel. For the first try, all I gave it was the words "The Night Land". It did some cool stuff, if not what I was looking for.

"Geodff" alone gets us . . . old sci-fi movie posters plus the name-written-on-the-moon gag from The Tick?