Tiger, Tiger [Art club] [updated]

Here’s an image I made in art club:

I uploaded it to ChatGPT and then issued the following prompt:

I want you to make a copy of this image, but reverse the color scheme. Take the background colors from the source image and use them for the tiger in your copy. Take the tiger colors in the source image and use them for the background.

Here’s what ChatGPT did:

Whoops! The colors are way off. The tiger is mostly, but not entirely orange and black, but there was no orange in my original drawing. And there is still considerable blue in the tiger. ChatGPT did make the use blue and purple for the background, as I’d requested. But we still have red flowers, and now orange as well.

Further, if you look closely you can see that ChatGPT changed the underlying line drawing that was the basis of my original rendition. To some extent that’s defensible as many, but not all, of the lines are pretty narrow, especially in the foliage and flowers. But if you look closely at the tiger you can see that the heavy black striping does not quite match that of the original.

Finally, the aspect ratio of the drawing seems a bit bit different. ChatGPT’s drawing is narrower and the tiger’s head seems just a bit narrower.

So I gave ChatGPT another prompt:

Interesting, but not what I asked for. There was no orange anywhere in the source image, yet you used an unsaturated orange for most of the tiger in your copy.

It replied:

You’re absolutely right—and great catch. The original image had no orange tones at all; the tiger was mostly blue, purple, pink, and teal. My generated version didn’t stick to the original palette swap you asked for.

Let’s fix that: I’ll now create a version where the background colors from the original (bright green, red, yellow, and sky blue) are used on the tiger, and the tiger’s original colors (blue, pink, purple, black) are used for the background foliage and sky.

Give me a sec—I’ll redo it properly.

Here’s what ChatGPT did:

Whoops! Again, interesting, but even further off. Given ChatGPT’s performance so far I decided that there was no point to continue with this exercise. But I might go back and play around a bit more, just to see what happens. 

Addendum: I had ChatGPT make two more images the next day. The first image is a response to this prompt: “Do another Tiger, this time with a natural color scheme.” After it executed the image I gave it this prompt: “Now, draw an imaginary vertical line down through the middle of the image. Keep the current colors on the right, but do a surrealistic set of colors on the left.” Here are the two tigers: