So, You Want To Be A Politician?

An Example Prompt

The prompt behind the board picture under Box & Board Pics, as we typed it. A style reference image we made ourselves goes in with it. Every picture goes through many rounds of rewriting the prompt and regenerating before we keep one.

A board game in the middle of play on a dark wood table, a bird’s-eye view looking down on the table from high above, the camera tilted about twenty degrees off straight down from a point just beyond the table’s edge, so the near end of the board is slightly larger than the far end and the wood of the table edge shows along the bottom of the frame, the tall narrow board turned about thirty degrees so its long edge runs from one corner of the frame toward the opposite corner, twice as long as it is wide, filling most of the frame, a tall narrow portrait Game Board twice as tall as it is wide, lying flat, framed in navy and gold, five engraved tier bands stacked from a fairground with a Ferris wheel at the bottom up to a Capitol dome at night with fireworks at the top, each band a wide engraved street or interior scene in navy, cream and red with a row of six square spaces printed across it, the road of printed spaces snaking back and forth up the board row by row, the middle band split into two short lanes meeting at a small Capitol dome, a dense navy panel along the bottom sixth of the board, six plain wooden pawns in green, black, white, orange, purple and yellow standing on printed spaces at different heights up the road with two of them bunched on the same row, dime-sized round cardboard discs and small green and red cardboard triangles resting on the corners of some printed spaces, five white dice with small engraved navy and gold icons on their faces in square gold frames, small wooden cubes piled beside the board, poker-size Card Decks and larger Archetype Cards fanned face-down with engraved backs, the props kept to the table edges clear of the board: a black silk top hat, thick stacks of banknotes bound with paper bands seen edge-on, a kitchen knife stuck point-down into the table beside the board, a tipped coffee cup with a spill across the wood, crumpled campaign flyers balled up, warm low lamplight across a dark wood table, the dark table running off every edge of the frame including the bottom edge, steel plate engraving, Thomas Nast and Harper’s Weekly 1880s, incised line work, dense crosshatch shading, deep navy ink on cream with antique gold highlights and red only in the board art, high contrast