Experiment on Prompt in Midjourney — Arrangement, Style, Parameter

Summary

1. The adjective ‘surprised’ has strong negative nuances on the model in spite of adding positive adverb ‘positively’ in front of it.
2. The prompt which regards the image as an object seldom work, so you need to make subject-specific prompt for effective composition and arrangement.
3. It seems that the model has a conflict between — cref and — stylize, in the point that it produced an image looking like a photography, so to be sure of its medium and style, you might have to declare it on the prompt explicitly along with — cref

What I intended to create:
- Referencing Andy-Warhol-related to image(https://s.mj.run/Bnqi1o-yAc0) as style medium such as color and theme
- A man laughing and smiling happily with his eyes and mouth wide open

1st prompt:

pink and red color, the face of a man who is positively surprised at something, smiling, the face is located at the left on the image, his gaze is from left to right, wide open eyes and mouth — cref https://s.mj.run/Bnqi1o-yAc0 — ar 16:9 — stylize 700

Result: Creepy

Takeaway

• I translated the expression of ‘happily laughing’ into ‘positively surprised’, but it seems that the model accepted the meaning in a negative way → I speculate that the adjective ‘surprised’ has strong negative nuances on the model
• The composition and arrangement of a figure is hard to set, as [the face is located at the left on the image, his gaze is from left to right] is not properly reflected on the generated image

2nd Prompt

light pink and red color, happy, smiling, the man is located at the left side, open eyes and mouth — cref https://s.mj.run/Bnqi1o-yAc0 — ar 16:9 — stylize 700

• Change on color: ‘light’ pink and red color
• Removal of ‘positively surprised’, ‘gaze’ phrase

Result: Creepy again

Takeaway

• Though it has character reference( — cref) parameter, it seems that the model has a conflict between — cref and — stylize, in the point that it produced an image looking like a photography
• To be sure of its medium and style, I might have to declare it on the prompt explicitly along with — cref

3rd prompt

a man happily lauging, pop art style of Andy Warhol, light pink and red color, the man is located at the left side — cref https://s.mj.run/Bnqi1o-yAc0 — ar 16:9 — stylize 700

• Addition of ‘Andy Warhol style’ prompt

Result: Not bad, but why are they making their head upward…?

Takeaway

• Arrangement phrase isn’t taken into account — [the man is located at the left side]

4th Prompt

pop art style of Andy Warhol, a man happily laughing, the man is staring right upward, light pink and red color, the man is located at the left side — cref https://s.mj.run/Bnqi1o-yAc0 — ar 16:9 — stylize 700 -

• Changes the position of ‘Pop Art Style’ prompt to the front
• Changes of composition phrase into subject-specific expression

Result: Satisfactory

Takeaway

• Subject-specific phrase for arrangement and composition works