More lions searching for strength: further culling to find the one...

I am still unhappy with everything that has so far been generated for my "Strength" tarot card. This is a project that uses AI and ML, along with my traditional digital media skills to create an entire deck of Major Arcana tarot cards in a similar style to one another.

I've been culling thumbnails for what feels like months at this point, and I believe I STILL have several ore months to go on the project before everything will be selected, tweaked, and presented in its "final form", which is something that I am yet to decide.

Here's the set of thumbnails that I will be reviewing today:

In this first image, we barely see the Lion present, and we have a disrobed (but creatively censored) woman with really long, thick hair, leading into a really incoherent and disfigured blob of Lion bits.

The sole Lion looking to the right of the frame feels like it would be a passable illustration, but the (hindquarters?) that rests on the back of its head seems incredibly out of place and entirely unsuitable.

This image has a similar theme, and it isn't one that I mind all that much, as the representations are much nicer. We have a doting Lion, and a woman with an intense gaze. They're set against a stark, blank background; which seeks only to further draw the viewer's attention to the inverted triangle of space between the eyes of the woman and the single eye visible from the Lion.

This is definitely going to the short list folder for later consideration.

As is this next image... another similar theme; but... on second thoughts, there's some wierd flesh going on underneath the lion's paw which immediately discounts this one from being useful. Apologies for being a filthy liar.

This next one is interesting owing to the presence of multiple hands touching the Lion, from angles you would not expect. One could conceivably belong to the Female Character that we see represented, but it is though they come from numerous other figures not depicted in the frame. It is almost like the woman is lending her strength to others, and this evokes some powerful meaning in my brain, but may not be the best analogy for those not firing off the same neural pathways that I'm currently engaged in utilising.

Finally, this one is interesting owing to the fact that Lion stands upon Lion, and it just brings it to eye level with our character, who appears to be holding an attemt at rendering a small lion, but really, it looks like an ale horn or something like that.

Due to this element, it isn't coherent enough to fix, but was interesting enough to talk about.

I've got more thumbnails to examine before I come to a final conclusion. I expect that I am going to be bringing back some of the short list in order to satisfyingly extract the final rendering for this particular image.

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