Midjourney AI

I am glad that I said the next post would be 3-5 days because it has been a fun filled little while.

There is more to the AI whispering than I first thought. I do not mean it is more difficult, there are just things that need to be considered that could not be anticipated. I will get to them as I update you on my endeavours.

Angela wants a Tarot Deck for her customers, and I said I would design one. As always, I asked the Bing AI how I should go about it and it sent me to Midjourney.com. If you want to sell the images you make, this is the only option; you cannot sell DALL-E images, it is in the terms that you agree to. It is not clear for Stable Diffusion, but I think those images remain Public Domain. Midjourney it is then.

To use Midjourney you need a Discord Server, so I downloaded and installed. I have meant to get Discord for a long time, but I am old and things slip my mind. The trial period only gives you 25 minutes of GPU time and because I did not want to waste any of that time, I decided to research as much as I could beforehand.

Research and type were all I did for most of the day. I have lists of every emotion that exists. I know every type of art style, all the lighting terms, all the renderers, all the aspect ratios and I have seen and studied hundreds of prompts.

Finally ready to try my hand at Midjourney, I asked Bing for a detailed description of a city street. It gave me this: “The kaleidoscope of shimmering lights flicker in the distance as the starry sky sweeps over the city that never sleeps. Hazy clouds envelope the moon so it was in its own realm of perpetual darkness. The wet, desolate streets of the city rested in silence as the starry black sky wept over it.”

I pasted it into Midjourney and it said: Due to extreme demand we can’t provide a free trial right now. Please /subscribe or try again tomorrow.

Marvellous, isn’t it? With some quiet muttering under my breath, I signed out and left it for the day.

Not wanting to face another due to extreme demand message, I bought a subscription to Midjourney the next day. The Bing description of a city street produced a rather good image without any input from me, here it is:

Remembering the Tarot Deck, I asked Bing for a description of the Fool Card, because I like fools. I took part of that description and added some details myself. I won’t give you the prompts for these because they are for someone else but I started by adding the Artist Monet to the description and then, one of my favorite’s, Turner. The results are below. 

Monet;

They are quite representative of Monet but a bit boring so I tried Turner, whose landscapes I like very much;

I think that if you want a deck of cards designed, you could do worse than include Turner as an influence but I’m not through with experimenting and I really want to see what including Michelangelo will do. That will be in another blog.

For now I feel like playing around and I expand on the fool reference and go for a Court Jester and this is my favorite image so far;

I’ll be opening an Instagram account soon to post more images like this and I’ll let you know when it’s live.

That’s enough for one post.

See you in the next one,

Old Man