Thanks to everyone who entered this challenge - congratulations on coming up with some lovely dark (and sometimes plain weird) entries!

Special congratulations to our winner:

https://creator.nightcafe.studio/u/Kantarion

Please take the time to look at the full results and to like and comment on your favourites.

The full results are available here:

https://creator.nightcafe.studio/game/tCH5riaOphtsLEUbodXx

Timmy will be setting up the next round soon.

Generate your own dark baroque portraits easily. Explore ephemeral charcoal and iridescent scratchboard styles for free.

Create dark baroque portraits with AI

This image depicts Alice in a state of dark baroque confusion, rendered with iridescent scratchboard and encaustic techniques. The art style features ethereal and detailed elements.

Alice in Dark Baroque Confusion, Iridescent Scratchboard Art

Dark baroque confusion. Alice. ephemeral. charcoal, Iridescent scratchboard. Encaustic. Doré.

Great round! There were a lot of fresh creations in this challenge, so please take the time to like and comment on your favourites from this round! 

Next round has started: https://nightcafe.art/studio?join=wSmIn&ru=brokenvisage

Easily generate unique and grim characters with our free AI image generator. Unleash your creativity today!

Create your own grim characters with AI

This striking image depicts a dark elf with ashen skin, wearing a burgundy robe and a silver mask, reclining on his throne in a dramatic, somber digital matte painting.

Dark Elf Lord on Throne in Somber Fantasy Realm

Stavrion the Grim

**📣 ɢʀᴏᴜᴘ ᴍᴇꜱꜱᴀɢᴇ 📣**

Thanks all of you artists for taking part and voting in my recurring  **⭕𝓝𝓸 𝓣𝓱𝓮𝓶𝓮⭕** challenge. So many awesome entries including *yours*! 🤩

Congrats to those that got credits, especially the Top 3! 👏🏻

I have already liked the Top 20 ❤ of this challenge.

Another challenge will start soon in the same room, hope to see your creativity again! 👍🏻

*📈 𝘾𝙝𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙚𝙣𝙜𝙚 𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙪𝙡𝙩𝙨:*

https://creator.nightcafe.studio/studio?open=challenge&panelContext=%28gameId%3Az1S5WnJQc8y5x4E6IaUS%29

*ᴍʏ ᴏᴛʜᴇʀ ɢᴀᴍᴇꜱ:*

**⭕𝓢𝓬𝓲-𝓕𝓲 𝓒𝓱𝓪𝓵𝓵𝓮𝓷𝓰𝓮⭕**
https://creator.nightcafe.studio/game/u8tAf9f6hDzyCCBiLjRe

**⭕𝓟𝓱𝓸𝓽𝓸𝓰𝓻𝓪𝓹𝓱𝔂 𝓒𝓱𝓪𝓵𝓵𝓮𝓷𝓰𝓮⭕**
https://creator.nightcafe.studio/game/z1S5WnJQc8y5x4E6IaUS

Great game! Thanks for playing:) see you in the next one https://creator.nightcafe.studio/game/djU0tucqtj3KHMgzVYMO

No music just thought

She prepares the silent flight

Air will soon listen

https://creator.nightcafe.studio/creation/EJXg9x3K6lK9jsnXuvc9/monet-oil-painting-a-ballerina-in-long-dress-tying-ballet-shoe-laces-in-a-dance-studio-with-blonde-h

Modified prompt by June Tan. 

Generate unique images of moments before action with our free and easy AI tool.

Create your own leap images with AI

This image shows a ballerina in a flowing dress tying her shoe in a sunlit studio, rendered as an impressionist oil painting with visible brushstrokes and a dreamy atmosphere.

Ballerina Tying Shoe in Sunlit Studio - Monet Style

Before the Leap

Easily generate unique watercolour paintings of families and holidays with our free AI tool. Try it now!

Create your own watercolour Thanksgiving scenes

This image captures a charming watercolor scene of a squirrel family enjoying a miniature Thanksgiving feast on a mossy forest floor, bathed in warm golden hour light, with visible brushstrokes and soft color blending.

Cozy Squirrel Family Thanksgiving Feast in Watercolor Style

Water colour painting,Of a squirrls famiy at  thanksgiving

Thank you! I wasted so many credits with so many models back then in attempting to make a face out of objects, but all AIs just gave me a face ***with*** objects. But during voting I noticed that 99% also featured real faces. All the winners though were more on topic...

Speaking of “That gives me the creeps,” haha... Made to impress!! Respect!

Things That Look Like Faces

https://creator.nightcafe.studio/collection/11Su17fP0IuJJX4VMbg9
Created for the "Things That Look Like Faces" DC #922 (2.77)

***in conjunction with***

"Wishmaster's Twist on the Daily Challenges, Round 119"
https://creator.nightcafe.studio/game/ZlBEjYqdUnb8XQpZLGas
https://creator.nightcafe.studio/game/pdalqYq5WqueTLkpH1Mm

Generate spooky poltergeist images with our free and easy AI tool. Unleash your creativity today!

Create your own ghost illusions

This photorealistic image captures a 1980s kid's room where toys float, forming a monster's face in a dynamic, high-contrast style reminiscent of classic horror films.

1980s Hollywood Horror: Toy Monster Face Appears

Just a poltergeist illusion

Easily generate unique images of seals and the Aurora Borealis with our free AI tool. Start creating now!

Create your own seal and aurora images

This image shows a seal on an ice floe gazing at the vibrant Aurora Borealis. The celestial lights cast an ethereal glow on the icy scene, rendered in a dramatic digital matte painting style.

Seal Watches Aurora Borealis Over Icy Landscape

A seal on an iceburg staring at the Aurora Borealis

Gorgeous landscape, Eldrad. 🌹 Congratulations!

Many thanks, my friend! Your support keeps me going! 😊😊😊🙏🙏🙏

No-Theme Thursday

Make unique peace-themed images with our free AI generator. Easy, fast, and fun!

Create your own peace-themed art

This image showcases a serene fantasy landscape at dawn, featuring rolling hills, a clear lake, and mist. It is a highly detailed digital matte painting with a maximalist approach to color and light, evoking awe and tranquility.

Ethereal Dawn Landscape Digital Painting

The piece of Peace

I feel this deserves a Top 5% finish. This is a world-class piece. Folowed you

Thank you so much! I think this may have placed 10% or higher, but I deleted the original start image (2 images ago), so it's disqualified 😞 I worked hard on it too, LOL.


https://creator.nightcafe.studio/creation/ElVEHmT9aZsvbeEu4TG4/winter-dreams-ineligible-for-ntt?output=%2Fjobs%2FElVEHmT9aZsvbeEu4TG4%2FElVEHmT9aZsvbeEu4TG4-gDh_X-adjusted.jpg



Either one should've gone in the Top 5%. Both of them are superior pieces.

Bring your winter visions to life! Generate unique AI images of snowy scenes and magical winter landscapes easily and for free.

Create your own winter dream images

User created mask

Double exposure. Magical realism, stylized realism. An ornate, colossal teacup merging with a beautiful winter landscape, its form composed ...

This image showcases a colossal teacup transforming into a winter scene with ice skaters and a snowman, rendered in a stylized, ethereal realism with white and blue hues.

Magical Teacup Merges with Winter Landscape

Double exposure. An ornate, colossal teacup merging with a beautiful cosmic landscape, its form composed of swirling nebulae, celestial orbs...

Winter Dreams

Congrats on this gorgeous piece! 😍👏

Easily generate unique harbor scenes with our free AI image generator. Explore endless possibilities and bring your ideas to life.

Create your own harbor images with AI

This oil painting captures a Victorian harbor with elegant ships and architecture, featuring a monochromatic turquoise, pink, and gold palette with ethereal lighting and rich textures.

Victorian Harbor Oil Painting with Sailing Ships

Old harbor

One word prompt of the day 11/28/25
(Word chosen by @ShoshannaBlackAuthor ): Morph

Easily generate unique morphing images with our free and flexible AI tool. Start creating now!

Create your own morphing images with AI

This surrealist image features melting forms and vibrant, clashing colors, evoking transformation. The dreamlike atmosphere is enhanced by dramatic backlighting and glowing elements, reminiscent of early surrealist painting techniques.

Surreal Dreamscape of Shifting Forms and Colors

Morph

Easily generate your own anime character party images for free with our flexible AI tool. Start creating now!

Create anime karaoke scenes with AI

This image shows Hatsune Miku and Sailor Moon singing karaoke together in a vibrant, celebratory anime bar. Features confetti, disco lights, and dynamic linework characteristic of 90s animation.

Hatsune Miku & Sailor Moon Karaoke Party in 90s Anime Style

Hatsune Miku and Sailor Moon having a karaoke party

Design unique Valkyrie superheroes with capes and more using our free and easy AI image generator.

Create your own superhero Valkyrie images

This image showcases a powerful Valkyrie superhero in dynamic flight through a stormy, cosmic sky. The artwork features bold linework and high-contrast colors, reminiscent of vibrant comic book illustrations.

Valkyrie Soars Through Cosmic Storm in Comic Book Style

Valkyrie superhero with yellow cape

Siamese Cat

Amazing Welcome to NC (Night Cafe) Happy Holidays

Create magical spirit deer images for free! Our AI makes it easy to bring your mystical visions to life.

Summon your own spirit deer with AI

This image shows a majestic spirit deer with glowing antlers in a mystical, moonlit forest. Bioluminescent plants cast vibrant blue and purple light, creating an ethereal atmosphere.

Spirit Deer Emerges From Ethereal Mist in Painterly Style

The Summoned Spirit Deer

Generate unique samurai warrior and aurora borealis images with our free and easy AI tool. Customize your creations today!

Create your own samurai warrior images

This image depicts a lone samurai on a snowy mountain, observing a vivid aurora. Rendered in the style of Japanese woodblock prints with cinematic fantasy lighting, featuring blues, purples, and greens.

Samurai Gazes at Aurora Borealis on Mountain Peak

A lone samurai warrior stands on a snow-covered mountain peak, gazing at a vibrant, swirling aurora borealis above. The warrior is clad in t...

18-year-old Nigerian girl (Chinenye) lying weak on a hospital bed, wearing a yellow hospital gown, tears in her eyes, looking down or at the ceiling, isolated. In the background, vague blurred shadows of people turning away, whispering, creating a sense of social distance and judgment. Soft, somber lighting, realistic African features, cinematic emotional mood, focus on her isolation and shame.

Generate your own unique portraits of Nigerian girls easily and for free with our AI image generator.

Create portraits of Nigerian girls with AI

This photorealistic image captures an 18-year-old Nigerian girl's isolation and shame on a hospital bed, with blurred figures in the background creating social judgment. Dramatic lighting enhances the somber mood.

Nigerian Girl's Emotional Hospital Portrait in Dramatic Ligh...

18-year-old Nigerian girl (Chinenye) lying weak on a hospital bed, wearing a yellow hospital gown, tears in her eyes, looking down or at the...

Generate your own unique vintage Parisian street scenes with our free and easy AI image generator. Unleash your creativity!

Create vintage Parisian scenes with AI

This image shows a woman in a vintage gown on a deserted Parisian street at twilight, illuminated by a gas lamp. It has a melancholic, cinematic quality, rendered with soft, muted tones evoking lost grandeur.

Create vintage Parisian scenes with AI

A solitary woman in a flowing, vintage gown stands on a deserted Parisian street at twilight. Cobblestones glisten under the faint glow of a...

Solitary Woman on Twilight Paris Street in Vintage Gown

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