Scene 4: Illustrations

Let's summarize what we have learned together

Through the previous learning, you should have more or less copied several images. If not, I suggest you practice more because practice makes perfect.

Let's briefly summarize what we have learned:

• The core of writing a prompt is to "describe the picture you want" and the "more detailed" it is, the closer the generated image will be to your requirements.
• To improve prompt writing skills, the best method is to copy other people's works and then try to write them yourself before finally looking at other people's prompts.
• To describe a picture clearly, it can be deconstructed from several perspectives:

	Stock Image	Logo
Type	stock photo of	graphic logo of
Main Body	two Asian men in suits shaking hands	cat
Environment	in front of the main entrance of the office building	N/A
Composition	focus on two hands	N/A
Style	background bokeh	vector simple minimal

• In the style section, there are two tips to use art movements, and artist names.

Watercolor

Starting from this chapter, we will do some more complex designs. Watercolor illustrations are relatively speaking, and should be the style that children will prefer.

Let's write step by step following the template we learned before:

	prompt	explain
Type	light watercolor	/
Main Body	a sleeping cat	/
Environment	white background	Because watercolor paintings are generally done on white paper, a white background has been added here.
Composition	null	Not important, just let AI play freely.
Style	Studio Ghibli	/

And then write another one with a scene:

	prompt	explain
Type	light watercolor	/
Main Body	children playing on the beach	/
Environment	white background	Because watercolor paintings are generally done on white paper, a white background has been added here.
Composition	null	Not important, just let AI play freely.
Style	Jon Klassen	He is an illustrator that I really like, and I love his book 'This Is Not My Hat'

Encyclopedia Illustration

Besides watercolor, another type of illustration that I really like is the hand-drawn illustrations in encyclopedias. Let's draw a rose together:

	prompt	explain
Type	botanical illustrati	/
Main Body	types of rose	/
Environment	white background	Usually painted on white paper, so a white background is also OK.
Composition	null	Not important, just let AI play freely.
Style	Pierre-Joseph Redoute	He is a famous botanist and painter

Draw another group of dinosaurs:

	prompt	explain
Type	dinosaur scientific illustration	/
Main Body	Tyrannosaurus	/
Background	white background	Usually painted on white paper, so a white background is also OK.
Composition	null	Not important, just let AI play freely.
Style	Andrey Atuchin	He is a famous Russian artist, biologist, and illustrator of ancient art.

Picture book illustration

Personally, I think that as long as good techniques are used to increase style - the artist can basically create some decent illustrations. I haven't read many picture books myself, but many people should know about Peter Rabbit. Let's try drawing a cat in a similar style to Peter Rabbit.

	prompt	explain
Type	illustration	/
Main Body	A cat standing and running on two legs in a denim jacket	/
Background	null	Not important, just let AI play freely.
Composition	null	Not important, just let AI play freely.
Style	Beatrix Potter	She is the author of Peter Rabbit.

Let's also try the style of E.H. Shepard, the illustrator of Winnie the Pooh (four on the right).

As an additional note, I did not include much background information in the prompt in order to make the generated results more in line with the author's style:

Behance-style technology illustration

To be frank, this is not a specific style of illustration. However, as someone who works in the internet industry, I think it's quite necessary.

But please note that after my testing, adding 'tech illustration' at the beginning can also generate similar style illustrations, but with less impressive results.

When I added 'Behance style' (Behance is a website where designers share their work and many of them are related to technology products such as app design), it became more refined and beautiful.

	prompt	explain
Type	tech illustration	/
Main Body	man jogging by the waterfront	/
Environment	null	Not important, just let AI play freely.
Composition	null	Not important, just let AI play freely.
Style	style of behance	After the increase, I feel that the style has indeed become more like Behance.

In addition, I made a more familiar cafe scene:

	prompt
Main Body	tech illustrationa lady drinking coffee at the computer in a cafe

Finally, there is a mysterious parameter here, which is to add some companies (such as by Microsoft).

I have tested Slack, Dropbox, Microsoft and Apple and feel that there are slight differences.

However, I do not know how Midjourney understands or processes this word. Below are two sets of examples. The left side is from Microsoft and the right side is from Apple.

Except for the fourth one on the right with an Apple logo, I can't see any other place that reflects Apple's brand identity.

Personally, I think it may be using the brand color of that particular company? Interested friends can explore further.

Coloring Illustration

The last one to introduce may not be an illustration, but many friends may have seen it. It is the kind of coloring illustration that allows you to use crayons or watercolors on it. I think it is very suitable for children to create their own coloring illustrations and then print them out for children to color. Here is an example of a tyrannosaurus rex:

	prompt	explain
Type	clean coloring book page	/
Main Body	Tyrannosaurus	/
Background	null	Not important, just let AI play freely.
Composition	null	Not important, just let AI play freely.
Style	black and white	/

The version of Snow White can be generated by changing the subject to "Snow White", and the following is the generated image: