Three figures with skeleton face paint stand — AI art by @justrob
@justrob · 10/15/2026
Entry in the 🖤💀DARK ART💀🖤 theme on BudgetPixel.
I was after one faded print that held Uelsmann's seamless layers and Crewdson's flat olive light, so I ran the same prompt wide to see who could land on it. Models, in order: 1. gpt-image-2.5-sunburst 2. seedream-5.0-pro 3. flux-1.1-pro 4. nano-banana-2.1 5. grok-imagine-image

Tags: gothic horror, haunted house, skeleton face paint, Victorian mansion, vintage horror, folk horror, spooky halloween, abandoned estate, macabre aesthetic, dark fantasy, aged photograph, eerie atmosphere, gothic portrait, day of the dead, horror art
AI Model: GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst
Prompt: Jerry Uelsmann + Gregory Crewdson + faded chromogenic print, where Uelsmann's multi-negative composite printing creates seamless layered elements through matched grain and burned-in edges, and Crewdson's cinematic grading produces flat overcast light via a restricted olive, sepia and ash palette holding one saturated note against muted fields, while the aged print infuses lifted milky blacks, dye fade and soft grain. The fusion manifests as crisp cutout-like layering, hazy desaturated distance and slight smeary softness, transforming any subject through uniform tonal harmony. A pale, skull-painted adult with voluminous orange curly hair and a black shirt, with a figure in a dark coat and white painted face beside them, and a woman in a long red dress with a white skeletal face. Medium-wide shot at a slightly low eye-level angle, the front figure cropped at the lower left edge in three-quarter view, head turned toward the right with gaze sliding past the lens and one arm lowered. A dark-coated figure stands mid-ground left and the woman in red stands mid-ground right, both smaller with distance, while a figure on the porch recedes into the far background. Scene set in an overgrown yard before a Victorian gothic house in the late afternoon, under a heavy overcast sky, with bare twisted branches, scattered dead limbs on the ground, and a black iron fence along the lower right.

Tags: haunted house, gothic horror, skull makeup, Halloween costume, Victorian mansion, spooky aesthetic, vintage horror, uncanny art, skeleton mask, dark fantasy, stormy sky, creepy landscape, Halloween imagery, gothic architecture, horror photography
AI Model: SeeDream 5.0 Pro
Prompt: Jerry Uelsmann + Gregory Crewdson + faded chromogenic print, where Uelsmann's multi-negative composite printing creates seamless layered elements through matched grain and burned-in edges, and Crewdson's cinematic grading produces flat overcast light via a restricted olive, sepia and ash palette holding one saturated note against muted fields, while the aged print infuses lifted milky blacks, dye fade and soft grain. The fusion manifests as crisp cutout-like layering, hazy desaturated distance and slight smeary softness, transforming any subject through uniform tonal harmony. A pale, skull-painted adult with voluminous orange curly hair and a black shirt, with a figure in a dark coat and white painted face beside them, and a woman in a long red dress with a white skeletal face. Medium-wide shot at a slightly low eye-level angle, the front figure cropped at the lower left edge in three-quarter view, head turned toward the right with gaze sliding past the lens and one arm lowered. A dark-coated figure stands mid-ground left and the woman in red stands mid-ground right, both smaller with distance, while a figure on the porch recedes into the far background. Scene set in an overgrown yard before a Victorian gothic house in the late afternoon, under a heavy overcast sky, with bare twisted branches, scattered dead limbs on the ground, and a black iron fence along the lower right.

Tags: skull face paint, gothic portrait, halloween makeup, curly red hair, surreal dark art, foggy horror, skeleton costume, spooky portrait, atmospheric goth, day of the dead, uncanny art, misty photoshoot, dark fantasy, alternative portrait, halloween photography
AI Model: Flux 1.1 Pro
Prompt: Jerry Uelsmann + Gregory Crewdson + faded chromogenic print, where Uelsmann's multi-negative composite printing creates seamless layered elements through matched grain and burned-in edges, and Crewdson's cinematic grading produces flat overcast light via a restricted olive, sepia and ash palette holding one saturated note against muted fields, while the aged print infuses lifted milky blacks, dye fade and soft grain. The fusion manifests as crisp cutout-like layering, hazy desaturated distance and slight smeary softness, transforming any subject through uniform tonal harmony. A pale, skull-painted adult with voluminous orange curly hair and a black shirt, with a figure in a dark coat and white painted face beside them, and a woman in a long red dress with a white skeletal face. Medium-wide shot at a slightly low eye-level angle, the front figure cropped at the lower left edge in three-quarter view, head turned toward the right with gaze sliding past the lens and one arm lowered. A dark-coated figure stands mid-ground left and the woman in red stands mid-ground right, both smaller with distance, while a figure on the porch recedes into the far background. Scene set in an overgrown yard before a Victorian gothic house in the late afternoon, under a heavy overcast sky, with bare twisted branches, scattered dead limbs on the ground, and a black iron fence along the lower right.

Tags: haunted house, vintage horror, tintype photography, skull face paint, Victorian mansion, folk horror, Halloween art, abandoned property, gnarled trees, eerie atmosphere, macabre, ghostly figures, gothic architecture, uncanny, spooky landscape
AI Model: Nano Banana 2.1
Prompt: Jerry Uelsmann + Gregory Crewdson + faded chromogenic print, where Uelsmann's multi-negative composite printing creates seamless layered elements through matched grain and burned-in edges, and Crewdson's cinematic grading produces flat overcast light via a restricted olive, sepia and ash palette holding one saturated note against muted fields, while the aged print infuses lifted milky blacks, dye fade and soft grain. The fusion manifests as crisp cutout-like layering, hazy desaturated distance and slight smeary softness, transforming any subject through uniform tonal harmony. A pale, skull-painted adult with voluminous orange curly hair and a black shirt, with a figure in a dark coat and white painted face beside them, and a woman in a long red dress with a white skeletal face. Medium-wide shot at a slightly low eye-level angle, the front figure cropped at the lower left edge in three-quarter view, head turned toward the right with gaze sliding past the lens and one arm lowered. A dark-coated figure stands mid-ground left and the woman in red stands mid-ground right, both smaller with distance, while a figure on the porch recedes into the far background. Scene set in an overgrown yard before a Victorian gothic house in the late afternoon, under a heavy overcast sky, with bare twisted branches, scattered dead limbs on the ground, and a black iron fence along the lower right.

Tags: folk horror, haunted house, Victorian mansion, skull mask, surreal horror, retro horror, atmospheric spooky art, foggy landscape, vintage horror aesthetic, gothic, uncanny, halloween art, eerie scene, gnarled branches, 70s horror still
AI Model: Grok Imagine
Prompt: Jerry Uelsmann + Gregory Crewdson + faded chromogenic print, where Uelsmann's multi-negative composite printing creates seamless layered elements through matched grain and burned-in edges, and Crewdson's cinematic grading produces flat overcast light via a restricted olive, sepia and ash palette holding one saturated note against muted fields, while the aged print infuses lifted milky blacks, dye fade and soft grain. The fusion manifests as crisp cutout-like layering, hazy desaturated distance and slight smeary softness, transforming any subject through uniform tonal harmony. A pale, skull-painted adult with voluminous orange curly hair and a black shirt, with a figure in a dark coat and white painted face beside them, and a woman in a long red dress with a white skeletal face. Medium-wide shot at a slightly low eye-level angle, the front figure cropped at the lower left edge in three-quarter view, head turned toward the right with gaze sliding past the lens and one arm lowered. A dark-coated figure stands mid-ground left and the woman in red stands mid-ground right, both smaller with distance, while a figure on the porch recedes into the far background. Scene set in an overgrown yard before a Victorian gothic house in the late afternoon, under a heavy overcast sky, with bare twisted branches, scattered dead limbs on the ground, and a black iron fence along the lower right.
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justrob
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