Midjourney Tarot

It’s a day of experimenting with prompts and artists names. The plan is to create a deck of Tarot cards, with characters and scenes that share a particular style throughout. 

I ask Bing to describe a beautiful tall Queen dressed in white, in detail and Bing kindly does. I change some of the details and add Michelangelo as the artist. The result is very impressive: 

I like the second image so I ask for variations of that:

I like the second one again and ask for an upscaled version:

I like these images so much, I find it hard to believe they were created with just a few words from an old man. That is the image of a beautiful woman; asked for and received.

I know by now that Midjourney can produce extraordinary images, but I do not know if it will generate consistently similar styles over time. I try a prompt with a description of the Fool card, giving the same settings as before and specifying Michelangelo. The result is not even close to the prior images: 

There’s not much wrong with them but they are too different to be images for the same deck of cards. I have to find out what’s going on here.

I go and study to find out why, and there are so many reasons that I would bore you to tears if I told you. Midjourney is entirely different from the web-based AI’s that I have used up to this point, which work primarily using keywords, as a Search Engine will. Midjourney takes extremely specific instructions. 

I Study a bit more and realize that not only are the words important but the order of the words is as important as the words themselves. I put more detail into the description of The Fool, than the Queen and this is why there is the big difference.

I try a new prompt , then more still; changing the order of words and changing the artist names. I get some nice results;

The final image is the closest I’ve got to the Fool facing away from us, which I specified over and over. It’s not perfect but I’ll take what I can get today.

The servers got really slow after this one so I left things there. Progress is slow but Rome wasn’t built in a day.

See you in the next one,

Cheers,

Old Man