Portray a sense of pessimism with a corset and gryphons.

[telophase]

Yes! It's ...... the Random Art Prompt Generator!

Featuring a choice of simple (one word or phrase) prompts or elaborate (two or more elements)!

And if you do anything inspired by this, please show me! (if anyone actually does anything with it, I might create an online gallery for it. :D)

Comments

[dragonscholar.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. Looking over the generator, I wanted to provide some feedback:

1) I'd rank more than one level of complexity - like a prompt that has two elements between the two.
2) The elaborate ones are a pretty mixed bag. I can't put my finger on it, but it feels like it works sometimes, and other times it doesnt - as if you still need to divide up the data or combine them in some different ways.

You did manage to find a balance on how to do this - something I actually gave up one when I tried an art prompt generator.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

1) Hm. I'll think about it - I have a tendency to overdo that, so I go in intending to do just three ranks and end up with six or eight. XD

(Also, the way I'm doing it is if you pick one, you go to one data file, if you pick the other, you go to another data file. I'm sure there's a better way to do that to keep it in one data file, so I don't have to remember to update more than one file if I add data.)

2) Yeah. I'll have to spend a few days not looking at it, to get it out of my brain, before I can see better ways of fiddling with the data. :D Concrete elements vs. non-concrete elements might be one, but I dunno so far. I may also need to edit the data more - I did a fairly quick job of taking out everything that was obviously unsuitable (well, for a random definition of "unsuitable." I suppose you *could* draw "a telepathic person", and someone might consider it quite a challenge or a reason to draw characters from Babylon 5, but I took it out anyway. :D)

Thanks!