Tips and tricks to write Prompts in Disco Diffusion (chapter one)
Some tips and tricks to get the most out of your whispers to Artificial Intelligence for image generation (Ai Art)
We can define the prompts as the instructions that we whisper to the Artificial Intelligence to generate our artwork.
Be careful not to omit any symbol and open and close square brackets. If we fail in any detail, the code will not be executed.
An example of the basic structure of prompts is:
["A beautiful painting of a singular lighthouse, shining its light across a tumultuous sea of blood by greg rutkowski and thomas kinkade, Trending on artstation.", "yellow color scheme"]What does this mean?
First, we give instructions between quotation marks and followed by commas. In this case, we give two instructions:
“A beautiful painting of a singular lighthouse, shining its light across a tumultuous sea of blood by greg rutkowski and thomas kinkade, Trending on artstation.“
Description of the image we want to achieve and the artists we intend to influence our work. In this case, the description of the image is 'A beautiful painting of a singular lighthouse, shining on a tumultuous sea of blood' And the artists that will influence the final result are Greg Rutkowski and Thomas Kinkade.
Important: End with Trending on Artstation. so that the AI knows where to go to get the artists style.
"yellow color scheme" - Color palette we want. We can include more than one color. In the case of the example, the yellow color is chosen.
And this is a final result:
Through the same prompt, we get as many unique random combinations as we want. We just have to let it act:
Tips and Tricks!
Depending on where you put words in the description (as we said before, each instruction should be enclosed in quotes) that order will have more weight or not. For example, the lighthouse painting is more important than the artists it will influence, being placed first. That's why the general description always has to come first.
Following this basic prompt structure (it can change a lot as we add more complexity but we will see this later), include some words in your prompts that can give the final result a different quality. And put it after the description in the place that you consider optimal.
For the type of style you want:
Add words like 3D (for 3D results), or painting, or illustration style, cartoony style, realism style, abstract style, futuristic style…
To get more realism:
Use words like 8k resolution, cinema 4d, unreal engine, hyperrealistic, photorealistic, detailed, cinematic, final render, octane render…
To get light effects:
Beautiful lighting, shadow depth, electrical light…
To provide more details:
Aristocratic, robotic, futuristic city, dirty, ancient, cyberpunk…
Any adjective will help the AI to better outline the work.
Choose the artists carefully.
The style of the artist or artists you choose will be reflected in the final artwork. It is key that you open an account in Artstation and start following the wonderful professionals that you will find there.
And reminder!: Always end with Trending on artstation.
If you want to make realistic work, choose artists like Fabricio Rezende, Alexander Jansson, Ivailo Ivanov…
If you want to make a video game or fantasy landscape, choose artists like Damien Mammoliti, Piotr Krynski, Marvin Wärzner…
If you want to include colossal light effects, include artists like Rutger van de Steeg, Sylvain Sarrailh, Job Menting…
There are dozens of them. Your choice is key to achieving a more impressive final result. We will talk about all of them more deeply in the near future.
More examples but with classics like Van Gogh and Monet:
[A beautiful painting of a castle and tulips by Vincent Van Gogh]
[A furious and hungry shark painted by Monet]
Finish with a touch of class!
Add words like gorgeous, amazing, masterpiece, wonderful, magic…
In all your descriptions you can use one or several words that we propose there. The result will always be different.
For example, the image I have created of Lucio Leone (The Don of AI Mafia Club) was created with the following prompt:
[“A dirty and dangerous old man, aristocratic, storm and fog, greg rutkowski, artstation.”, “magenta and dark brown color scheme”]
And to practice just go crazy! Creativity has no rules! Like the following work of the great artist DeadbeatDadClub:
[3D ghostly astronaut lost in space made of flowers]
Many more tips and tricks soon! And we will experiment with more complex prompts that will allow us to further refine our technique.
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