Tag: Artwork

MidJourney: Old-school scifi heroes wear ties

  • A dreaming man levitates through the streets, night scene, street lamp, cobblestones, spotlight, muted color palette, art by alex ross, novel cover
  • Low angle, rear view, a man in a suit watches a distant spaceship launch, style of scifi illustrations, depth of field, muted color palette
  • Low angle, three – quarters rear view, a man watches a spaceship launch, style of scifi illustration, depth of field, monotone color palette
  • Full length portrait, man in pilot flight suit, crew cut, background space ship, the rings of Saturn, depth of field, science fiction novel cover, illustrative art, high contrast palette
  • Full length portrait, woman in pilot flight suit, long hair, made of fire, space ship, the rings of Saturn, science fiction novel cover, illustrative art, high contrast palette
  • An illustration showing a man riding on a horse, a wagon on fire, in the style of epic fantasy scenes, fur cloak, hood, snow scenes, rhads, frank quitely, medievalist, golden light, american tonalism
  • An old painting, rear view, low angle, a black – cloaked figure with a hood standing on a hill looking away, holding a scythe, black robes, storm clouds, color palette black, gold, brown, tan, silver

MidJourney: the good news is

…that it’s getting really good at hands.

  • I fed this two image prompts (one from Dall-E and one from a previous MidJ attempt at A Shadow), plus A shadowy male figure wearing hat and cloak, ominous, mysterious, dreamlike style, neo noir WORDPRESS WHY CAN I NOT USE QUOTATION MARKS? What do you have against the ENTER key?
  • This one, courtesy of the DESCRIBE feature, is: An illustration of a mysterious male figure wearing hat and flowing cloak in the city from black mask game, film noir aesthetic, tokina at – x 11 – 16mm f/ 2. 8 pro dx ii, cartoonish character design, monochromatic sculptor, luminous light and shadow, dc comics, vienna secession. Most of that is gobbledygook/filler. The trick is finding out which bits of gobbledygook MidJ pays attention to.
  • Same prompt.
  • Can MidJourney draw out in physical (digital) form the images I have in my head? Yes, but also no, and it helps to be able to help it along. So the stairs (and waterfall) in this image came from a photo prompt, and though the figure is just about perfect although not really dejected enough, the rest of the mountain and winding stair got lost. Ah well.
  • Sam and Telzey from my intermittently posted drabble cycle. I never realized Sam had curly hair.
  • “Samurai tiger, ukiyo-e inspired, pencil drawing”
    “Samurai tiger, ukiyo-e inspired, pencil drawing”
    “Samurai tiger, ukiyo-e inspired, pencil drawing”
    “Samurai tiger, ukiyo-e inspired, pencil drawing”

WordPress, DIE IN A FIRE.

MidJourney: Dragons are a girl’s best friend

  • HOLY CATS THIS IS AWESOME
  • IDK why MidJourney thought that girls + dragons = books, but IT IS COMPLETELY CORRECT.
  • GUYS GUESS WHAT, I JUST READ AN EPIC FANTASY NOVEL RECOMMENDED TO ME BY LARRY CORREIA AND–
  • Obviously a funny one. Probably by Pratchett.
  • TURN THE PAGE ALREADY SARAH.
  • CONNIE I DONT NEED TO SEE THE PICTURES JUST KEEP READING
  • WHAT DID YOU THINK BROWN GIRLS COULDNT READ TO DRAGONS? KEEP ON TURNING THEM PAGES DEENORA! (Kudos to MidJourney there, I was genuinely surprised to see this one.) BOOYA.
  • Tina hasnt finished her homework on her own for WEEKS.
  • Amelia: We are never going to get the Spell of UnDerpiness right if you keep blowing the book out of my hands.

MidJourney: can you illustrate it?

So can you make MidJourney / AI art generators illustrate your stories for you? Yes and no–not yet. Will you be able to? Yes, soon. Did it draw me a picture of a caracal in a trench coat? Yes. Lots. (“Oh, that’s nice, that’s a lynx.” “That’s a caracal.” “Oh.” “That one’s a lynx.” “Ok, ok, ok, I see, I see, so, now, just for my benefit, Riders?” “Yes?” “In the future, how do I know which one’s a lynx and which one is a caracal?”) Did it also put eyepatches on them? No, for some reason it completely refused to put eyepatches on them, weird.Can I describe an isolated scene or mental image and have it 100% fulfilled?

No, not yet–and also YES TOTALLY.

  • Prompt: “a man looks down at his injured chest and arm, which are emitting black smoke, smooth, ultra-detailed digital art” Note that the word “bleeding,” much like the word “cleavage” is not allowed.

    This was done three months ago, with Version 3 or a very early beta of Version 4. It took about five upgrades to get it this far.
    Prompt: “a man looks down at his injured chest and arm, which are emitting black smoke, smooth, ultra-detailed digital art” Note that the word “bleeding,” much like the word “cleavage” is not allowed.

    This was done three months ago, with Version 3 or a very early beta of Version 4. It took about five upgrades to get it this far.
  • ‘Prompt: “a man looks down at his wounded arms, which are emitting black smoke”

    This was done three days ago with the current version of V4.’Prompt: “a man looks down at his wounded arms, which are emitting black smoke” (I didn’t specify “ultra-smooth digital art” because I forgot the exact prompt and I didn’t think it would be necessary. It wasn’t. Anyhoo.)

    This was done three days ago with the current version of V4.
  • This is really, really close to my mental image of the character/scene, but _not quite there yet._

    (Although, *one* hand is completely good, give it that!)
  • This one is also _oh so close._ I went with this one because the pose is less difficult for the AI to screw up.

    So, MidJourney v4 has a remaster mode that will allow you to modify your base prompt when generating variants of an image.
  • Reworked prompt: “<https://s.mj.run/TrNSc6lspwE&gt;, a man looks down at his wounded arms, which are emitting black smoke, red hair, historical costume”
    (I tried a couple variants with “young man,” but then it kept spitting back, like, figurative babies, so.)

    On the principle that simpler is better, I didn’t specify which historical era costume.
  • This is not bad. This is not bad at all. We have emotion. We have the clutching. We have the red hair. We have smokiness and a suggestion of fire. If this was the only one, I’d have gone with this one.
  • O.M.G.