Artists References & Style Guides – For MidJourney & AI Art – These are the ones I depend on.

Chapters:
0:00 Intro
2:14 Utah Teapot
3:06 Visual Style Encyclopedia
4:25 Conclusion

Discover some great resources for learning more about some amazing artists! The goal of this video is to give you some guidance so you can stop spamming random artists in your AI Art Prompts and have a plan in mind on the look you want before you start using MidJourney, Stable Diffusion, or another AI Art engine.

I have a few links I constantly reference so I can easily decide on different looks and artists I want to emulate to lay the foundation for the artwork I want to create. I decided to put together a video to explain each of the artist references I use and some critical MidJourney comparison graphs for some settings that can wildly affect the outcome of the generated AI Art.

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All of the links to the references I am using are on my blog here:
https://www.lightshootedit.com/2022/08/artist-resources-for-ai-art-generation.html

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49 Comments

  1. Very cool. Thanks so much for providing your guides on various artist styles that MidJourney is trained on — I am sure a lot of people will find that information useful! 🙂

  2. I've been wanting to upgrade my sub to the $30 so I can use my relaxed time to do exactly what these sites are doing. I would like to say for the artists that feel like AI is taking their job, I'd like to add this perspective in that im looking up and finding new art and artists everyday because of these ai machines. Its giving your work many more eyes.

  3. I'm sure you've covered this, but can't really see anything. Would you be able to do a tutorial on weighting of image prompts please if you can. eg I'm trying to create a portrait of a person, but with their face being replaced by a clock. Midjourney tends to ignore the clock part of the prompt

  4. Dear Scott: You are tremendous! Thank you so much for your brilliant teaching, solid understanding and great communication on MidJourney. As a designer/illustrator for more than 40 years, my approach to MidJourney has sync'ed with your thinking– and want to understand this tool, what it can do, and how it can enhance the work I do.

  5. I have a group of subjects that I keep trying in different styles purely to see what Midjourney comes up with, then I do oil paintings from them.

  6. Loving your videos, Scott! I've learned so many great techniques from you already! I am using MidJourney to create artwork for a board game I've designed with a friend and we're getting some great results. We are producing beautiful landscapes, scenes, and portraits … but then when we want something as seemingly simple as a "primitive wooden torch" or "pair of binoculars" the results are far less predictable. Is this something you're seeing as well? That MidJourney struggles with simple objects? I would love to see an exploration of this genre of prompt if you've got ideas! Thanks again! Your channel is amazing!

  7. I dislike the idea of emulating real artists who are living and putting in huge amounts of time and effort to maintain their name

    Frankenstein multiple artists to create a new style

  8. Great vid man! Im falling more in more in love with Stable Diffusion, no prompt restrictions, just as capable as Dall E and MJ….and its locally installed and free, hard not to love.

  9. Awesome … lovely to have the links in just one space. Thanks for doing so and maintaining it. Means I can spend more time being addictively imagining new wonderous imagery!

  10. Finding lots of artists whose work I never would have found other than reading prompts as I do ranking in midjourney, I find I score on does it hit the prompt so I like to google artists to see their style and then leave tabs open to go back and explore their work. Again this is a tool, I'm a good doodler enjoy sketching ideas and this is now giving me ideas and ideation to try and take forward into my own art, trying the photobashing using parts of an generated as base. I'm finding I'm actually producing images I enjoy, a lot of thanks to you and midjourney

  11. Do you have some general tips on how to discover artists? So far I've been stumbling on different creators randomly on youtube or other social media. But I am looking for a more systematic way to discover new art and different styles, not just for mid journey, but generally.

  12. Any trick to getting outer space imagery? It always wants to do a cropped image no matter how much stuff I put “outer space, zoomed way out, whole planet” lol

  13. Love your videos!! I don't have Photoshop and am not a professional photographer but I am a MidJourney member and your videos are super helpful!! Do I need Photoshop to get the most benefit from being a channel member?

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