Eric Workman

Midjourney Styles

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About a week ago, Midjourney released a style tuner.

Even though we call it a "style" it's a bit more than that, it's really controlling the "personality" of the model and it influences everything from colors to character details.

In other words, it guides the aesthetic style of the images it generates. Here's a style I made: 1VUR9cU9PM0Cj. Images generated with it generally fit a vague gouache-style, sort of like a more opaque watercolor. It definitely leans towards bright colors and clouds.

All of the following prompts used the title with --style 1VUR9cU9PM0Cj. Perhaps you'll recognize some of these from previous posts.

a hungry cat extreme close up

a hungry cat extreme close up

a robot dressed as a medieval knight drinking a goblet of wine

a robot dressed as a medieval knight drinking a goblet of wine

an empty castle landscape

an empty castle landscape

footprint on the moon

footprint on the moon

gravy boat

gravy boat

hero

hero

quirky underground comic style illustration, pen and ink and watercolor and collage in the style of Marc Bell, bathing cats, bath house onsen cats

quirky underground comic style illustration, pen and ink and watercolor and collage in the style of Marc Bell, bathing cats, bath house onsen cats

time passing

time passing

I generated each of the following using the prompt game console --style <title>.

lJpJDKfHsQzpMd

lJpJDKfHsQzpMd

2mdkGZV4egs1

2mdkGZV4egs1

3z1Y4VDBEtQdAt

3z1Y4VDBEtQdAt

eK74RWEED3P

eK74RWEED3P

With just a few examples to work with, to me Midjourney seems to make images that better fit the style with shorter prompts. I'll have to see in a future post how much the --stylize parameter enforces the given style with longer prompts.