You can be as specific or as vague as you want, but anything you leave out will be randomized. Being vague is a great way to get variety, but you may not get what you’re looking for.
Try to be clear about any context or details that are important to you.
Visually well defined means something with a lot of photos on the internet
Try: Wizard, priest, angel, emperor, necromancer, rockstar, city, queen, Zeus, house, temple, farm, car, landscape, mountain, river
Try: “a sense of awe” “the will to endure” “cognitive resonance” “the shores of infinity” “the birth of time” “a desire for knowledge” “the notion of self”
Examples: “a cyberpunk wizard” “a surreal landscape” “a psychedelic astronaut”
Try: cyberpunk, psychedelic, surreal, vaporwave, alien, solarpunk, modern, ancient, futuristic, retro, realistic, dreamlike, funk art, abstract, pop art, impressionism, minimalism
Examples: “Temple by James Gurney” “Father by MC Escher”
Try: Hiroshi Yoshida, Max Ernst, Paul Signac, Salvador Dali, James Gurney, M.C. Escher, Thomas Kinkade, Ivan Aivazovsky, Italo Calvino, Norman Rockwell, Albert Bierstadt, Giorgio de Chirico, Rene Magritte, Ross Tran, Marc Simonetti, John Harris, Hilma af Klint, George Inness, Pablo Picasso, William Blake, Wassily Kandinsky, Peter Mohrbacher, Greg Rutkowski, Paul Signac, Steven Belledin, Studio Ghibli
Try invoking a particular medium
If the style is unspecified, it will lean towards photorealism
Examples: “a watercolor painting of a landscape” “a child's drawing of a home”
Try: painting, drawing, sketch, pencil drawing, w, woodblock print, matte painting, child's drawing, charcoal drawing, an ink drawing, oil on canvas, graffiti, watercolor painting, fresco, stone tablet, cave painting, sculpture, work on paper, needlepoint
Language models often ignore negative words (“not” “but” “except” “without”).
Avoid: “a hat that’s not red” “ Try: “a blue hat” Avoid: “a person but half robot” Try: “half person half robot”
Avoid: “monkeys doing business” Try: “three monkeys in business suits”
Examples: “a portrait of a queen” “an ultrawide shot of a queen” Disco Diffusion v5.1 [w/ Turbo] - Colaboratory
Try: portrait, headshot, ultrawide shot, extreme closeup, macro shot, an expansive view of
Avoid: “a monkey on roller skates juggling razor blades in a hurricane”
Try: “a monkey that’s a hurricane of chaos”
Examples: “cyberpunk shinto priest” “psychedelic astronaut crew” “river of dreams” “temple of stars” “queen of time” “necromancer capitalist”
Vague plural words leave a lot to chance (did you mean 2 wizards or 12 wizards?)
Avoid: “cyberpunk wizards” Try: “three cyberpunk wizards” Avoid: “psychedelic astronauts” Try: “psychedelic astronaut crew” (implies a crew shot)
Avoid: “an optimistic vision of an augmented reality future” Try: “a solarpunk city filled with holograms”
Avoid: “Clothes humans will wear 12,000 years into the future” Try: “wildly futuristic clothing with glowing and colorful decoration”
The tree of __________ and __________
The temple of __________ and __________
The gateway to __________ and _________
The angel of _____ and _______
The emperor/empress of __________
__________ in the style of a 70s science fiction novel cover
__________ in the style of a metal album cover
__________ in the style of cyberpunk noir art deco
__________ in the style of glitch art
a biblical fantasy illustration of ______
an ancient chinese painting of ______
Punk style list: cyberpunk, nanopunk, biopunk, cyber noir, steampunk, clockpunk, dieselpunk, decopunk, coalpunk, atompunk, steelpunk, islandpunk, oceanpunk, rococopunk, stonepunk, mythpunk, raypunk, nowpunk, cyberprep, postcyberpunk, solarpunk, lunarpunk, elfpunk, atompunk, neonpunk
Tarot Cards (Major Arcana): The Fool, The Magician, The High Priestess, The Empress, The Emperor, The Hierophant, The Lovers, The Chariot, Strength, The Hermit, Wheel of Fortune, Justice, The Hanged Man, Death, Temperance, The Devil, The Tower, The Star, c, The Sun, Judgment, The World
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