Prompt Engineering, Properly
How a prompt steers the model: artistic language, mood, composition, and examples you can copy.
The AI-art word hoard
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word walls.
Fifteen keyword walls for Midjourney and Stable Diffusion: styles, lighting, photography, weather, emotions, interiors, food, vehicles, and more. Click words, watch your prompt assemble, copy it out. Free. No paywall, no signup.
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The word walls
2,774 words & counting
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Art Styles & Movements
From ukiyo-e to vaporwave. One style word changes the whole image.
Open the wall → 375 words 🐉Mythical Creatures
375 beasts from 25 mythologies for character design.
Open the wall → 72 words 🌈Colors & Palettes
47 palettes and 25 single colors, each with an example image.
Open the wall → 74 words 🧱Textures & Materials
74 textures from bark to bokeh, each with an example image.
Open the wall → 110 words 💡Lighting & Atmosphere
110 light sources, methods, and styles. The difference between flat and cinematic.
Open the wall → 118 words 📷Composition & Camera
118 camera, focus, and composition words the model treats as instructions.
Open the wall → 662 words 👗Clothing & Fashion
662 clothing words: contemporary wear plus men's and women's formal.
Open the wall → 444 words 🌿Nature: Plants & Biomes
444 plants, trees, biomes, and terrains for worlds with real geography.
Open the wall → 104 words 🏛️Architecture Through the Ages
104 civilizations from ancient Egypt to Neoclassical Russia.
Open the wall → 151 words 📷Photography & Camera
Lenses, film stocks, shot types. Camera words set the frame.
Open the wall → 120 words 🎭Emotions & Expressions
Expressions, moods, body language. One word changes the whole face.
Open the wall → 120 words ⛅Weather & Atmosphere
Rain, fog, golden hour, monsoon. Weather words light the scene for free.
Open the wall → 110 words 🛋️Interiors & Rooms
Rooms, furnishings, design styles. One word builds the whole set.
Open the wall → 100 words 🍜Food & Plating
Dishes, plating, table scenes. Name the dish and the light.
Open the wall → 114 words 🚂Vehicles & Transport
Steam trains, muscle cars, airships. The vehicle sets the era.
Open the wall →All nine planned walls are live. The Midjourney and Stable Diffusion tool notes cover how to use them.
Guides that pull their weight
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Prompting text models
new sectionThe walls feed image models. The LLM section covers the other half: getting what you want from ChatGPT, Claude, Deepseek, and reasoning models.