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More Midjourney art
I have not been posting much here lately because I Can't Even quite a lot of the time (and went to visit family this weekend, which went well). I've got a metric ton of Midjourney AI-generated images, most of which I am not going to show you so you can breathe a sigh of relief.
Yesterday or the day before![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
rachelmanija reviewed a book and used the phrase "a haunted AirBnB," which I snurched as a prompt, and after a few iterations ended up with this masterpiece:
Click on all of these images for larger versions.
I next thought of the image you've probably seen everywhere of a small, scruffy kitten walking down a path, which is usually titled Tiny Kitten. Big World. Only I couldn't remember the exact title (just found it now when looking for the image) and instead used the prompt "A tiny kitten on a lonely path."
Midjourney ended up having a wee problem with the number of eyes a typical kitten has.
So I changed the prompt to "a tiny kitten with green eyes on a lonely path."
Midjourney immediately had a problem with the number of ears your typical kitten has.
Several iterations of that later, Midjourney was trying to make the kitten green, instead of its eyes, so I asked it to create a tiny orange kitten on a lonely path, forgetting that "orange" isn't necessarily a color, which resulted in Midjourney trying to make an orange-the-fruit kitten instead of an orange-the-color kitten.
This one ended up being the favorite of all my kitten experimentation. The full prompt is "a tiny kitten with green eyes on a lonely path. trending on artstation. 8k. atmospheric. cinematic. --ar 9:16" I love the depth of field and the ghostly kitten further down the path.
Last week I was attempting to get some good early modern mercenaries with scars and tattooed faces out of Midjourney. I looked at a lot of other people's works and stole a bunch of terms for the prompt in order to get something painterly yet realistic.
Let me show you a couple of stunner pictures first. Prompts are, minus the aspect ratio because I forgot what I used:
#1 "17th century woman mercenary. artstation."
#2" early modern woman mercenary standing on a battlefield. style of tommy+arnold. concept art. loose brushwork. artstation."
And I've got a lot of iterations on this, as I was trying to evoke realistic portraits of male and female mercenaries. I grant you that Midjourney does tend to think that if one nose or mouth is good, then two might be better, and it took "scarred" to heart. But I love the tattoos.
The prompt was variants on "a realistic photo of 16th century male and female mercenaries, cavalier, tattooed faces, scars, sneer, concept art, style of Krenz Cushart, Ashley Wood, and Charlie Bowater and Craig Mullins, intricate accurate details, cinematic color grading, muted colors, soft light, rule of thirds, cinematic, 8K,"
Asking for just female mercenaries gave me some awesome ladies that I want to write about, or paint, or both.
I also tried to get some full-body group paintings of mercenaries that might fit into my world, and got some nice ones, which were all male. But as soon as I specified that I wanted both male and female...THE MEN STARTED STRIPPING AND POSING.
I finally managed to track down that the prompt I'd kludged together from other people's prompts included the phrase "like a professional model." Removing that made the men stop posing, although a number of them remained stripped down.
After this, I started asking for female mercs only, which you have seen above.
That's it for mercenaries this post. Let's see some others.
"watercolor of Art Nouveau space marine by Jean-Baptiste Monge, by Brian Froud, post processing, painterly, book illustration watercolor granular splatter dripping paper texture. Trending on artstation, post processing, pen and ink work. sharp focus."
"watercolor of space marine by michael whelan, by Brian Froud, post processing, painterly, book illustration watercolor granular splatter dripping paper texture. Trending on artstation, post processing, pen and ink work. sharp focus."
"cyberpunk moomin"
"truth coming out of her well to shame mankind. by sparth." (Sparth is a concept artist that mostly focuses on spaceships and spaceports.)
And then I hit the Yoon Ha Lee generator, and decided to see what using the same prompt but specifying different authors would produce. Again, click on any image to see it larger.
By Yoon Ha Lee:
By Brandon Sanderson:
By Arkady Martine:
By Adrian Tchaikovsky:
By John Scalzi:
By George R. R. Martin:
By J. R. R. Tolkien:
By Frank Herbert:
By Anne McCaffrey:
Random Korean name I created from baby name lists, to see how it differed from Yoon Ha Lee: "When Tam, a mercenary, enters a court, all they want is succumbing to temptation or addiction. Fantasy novel by Ha-joon Choi."
And, just now, by Mercedes Lackey (since her covers tend to be fairly bright, often with pink or purple for Valdemar books):
That's it for now. I expect there will be far, far more to come.
I created a Discord server and invited the Midjourney bot to it if you wanted a much smaller place to experiment yourself. If you're on my f-list, the previous post has the invite. If you're not, leave a comment here or PM me for the invite.
Yesterday or the day before
rachelmanija reviewed a book and used the phrase "a haunted AirBnB," which I snurched as a prompt, and after a few iterations ended up with this masterpiece:Click on all of these images for larger versions.
I next thought of the image you've probably seen everywhere of a small, scruffy kitten walking down a path, which is usually titled Tiny Kitten. Big World. Only I couldn't remember the exact title (just found it now when looking for the image) and instead used the prompt "A tiny kitten on a lonely path."
Midjourney ended up having a wee problem with the number of eyes a typical kitten has.
So I changed the prompt to "a tiny kitten with green eyes on a lonely path."
Midjourney immediately had a problem with the number of ears your typical kitten has.
Several iterations of that later, Midjourney was trying to make the kitten green, instead of its eyes, so I asked it to create a tiny orange kitten on a lonely path, forgetting that "orange" isn't necessarily a color, which resulted in Midjourney trying to make an orange-the-fruit kitten instead of an orange-the-color kitten.
This one ended up being the favorite of all my kitten experimentation. The full prompt is "a tiny kitten with green eyes on a lonely path. trending on artstation. 8k. atmospheric. cinematic. --ar 9:16" I love the depth of field and the ghostly kitten further down the path.
Last week I was attempting to get some good early modern mercenaries with scars and tattooed faces out of Midjourney. I looked at a lot of other people's works and stole a bunch of terms for the prompt in order to get something painterly yet realistic.
Let me show you a couple of stunner pictures first. Prompts are, minus the aspect ratio because I forgot what I used:
#1 "17th century woman mercenary. artstation."
#2" early modern woman mercenary standing on a battlefield. style of tommy+arnold. concept art. loose brushwork. artstation."
And I've got a lot of iterations on this, as I was trying to evoke realistic portraits of male and female mercenaries. I grant you that Midjourney does tend to think that if one nose or mouth is good, then two might be better, and it took "scarred" to heart. But I love the tattoos.
The prompt was variants on "a realistic photo of 16th century male and female mercenaries, cavalier, tattooed faces, scars, sneer, concept art, style of Krenz Cushart, Ashley Wood, and Charlie Bowater and Craig Mullins, intricate accurate details, cinematic color grading, muted colors, soft light, rule of thirds, cinematic, 8K,"
Asking for just female mercenaries gave me some awesome ladies that I want to write about, or paint, or both.
I also tried to get some full-body group paintings of mercenaries that might fit into my world, and got some nice ones, which were all male. But as soon as I specified that I wanted both male and female...THE MEN STARTED STRIPPING AND POSING.
I finally managed to track down that the prompt I'd kludged together from other people's prompts included the phrase "like a professional model." Removing that made the men stop posing, although a number of them remained stripped down.
After this, I started asking for female mercs only, which you have seen above.
That's it for mercenaries this post. Let's see some others.
"watercolor of Art Nouveau space marine by Jean-Baptiste Monge, by Brian Froud, post processing, painterly, book illustration watercolor granular splatter dripping paper texture. Trending on artstation, post processing, pen and ink work. sharp focus."
"watercolor of space marine by michael whelan, by Brian Froud, post processing, painterly, book illustration watercolor granular splatter dripping paper texture. Trending on artstation, post processing, pen and ink work. sharp focus."
"cyberpunk moomin"
"truth coming out of her well to shame mankind. by sparth." (Sparth is a concept artist that mostly focuses on spaceships and spaceports.)
And then I hit the Yoon Ha Lee generator, and decided to see what using the same prompt but specifying different authors would produce. Again, click on any image to see it larger.
By Yoon Ha Lee:
By Brandon Sanderson:
By Arkady Martine:
By Adrian Tchaikovsky:
By John Scalzi:
By George R. R. Martin:
By J. R. R. Tolkien:
By Frank Herbert:
By Anne McCaffrey:
Random Korean name I created from baby name lists, to see how it differed from Yoon Ha Lee: "When Tam, a mercenary, enters a court, all they want is succumbing to temptation or addiction. Fantasy novel by Ha-joon Choi."
And, just now, by Mercedes Lackey (since her covers tend to be fairly bright, often with pink or purple for Valdemar books):
That's it for now. I expect there will be far, far more to come.
I created a Discord server and invited the Midjourney bot to it if you wanted a much smaller place to experiment yourself. If you're on my f-list, the previous post has the invite. If you're not, leave a comment here or PM me for the invite.