Start Here: Your First Good Prompt
One subject, four words, one change at a time. The shortest path from a blank box to a picture you meant.
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Guides
The long reads
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Start here
new to prompting?The five-minute version. Everything else on the site builds on this one.
The One-Page Cheat Sheet
The skeleton, the parameters, quick fixes, and ten words per wall. Print it and tape it up.
2 min readWall guides
16 guidesEach of these pairs with a word wall. Read the guide, then open the wall.
Creating Animals in Stable Diffusion
Write animal prompts with species, pose, habitat, lens, and detail control.
6 min readMastering Patterns in AI Art
Use pattern terms to build repeats, borders, textiles, surfaces, and image details in AI art.
12 min readMastering Art Styles in Stable Diffusion
Use art style terms to guide Stable Diffusion prompts for paintings, prints, drawings, and mixed media.
10 min readHow I Use My List of Midjourney Styles
Use art movements and prompt terms to test clear styles in Midjourney.
2 min readHow I Use Colors, Palettes, and Patterns
Use color, palette, and pattern terms to plan prompts for Stable Diffusion and Midjourney.
9 min readMastering Textures and Materials in AI Art
Use texture and material terms to add bark, velvet, glass, rust, wax, and painterly surfaces to AI art.
8 min readPrompting Photography and Camera Terms
How lenses, film stocks, and shot types steer AI art, with worked prompts from the photography wall.
4 min readPrompting Emotions and Expressions
How emotion words change faces, posture, and scene mood, with worked prompts from the emotions wall.
4 min readPrompting Weather and Atmosphere
Weather states, times of day, and atmospheric effects that light a scene for free.
4 min readPrompting Interiors and Rooms
Rooms, design styles, and anchor furniture that build a whole set from one word.
4 min readPrompting Food and Plating
Named dishes, plating words, and food photo terms that make food prompts specific.
4 min readPrompting Vehicles and Transport
How one vehicle word sets era, speed, and place, from steam trains to hover taxis.
4 min readPrompting Clothing and Fashion
A garment word carries era, class, and character in one term, with worked prompts from the clothing wall.
3 min readPrompting Nature: Plants and Biomes
Biome words build the stage, plant words dress the front of it, with worked prompts from the nature wall.
3 min readMastering Lighting in Midjourney
Use sunlight, moonlight, LEDs, and neon to control the mood and focus of Midjourney scenes.
6 min readUsing Materials in AI Art on Midjourney
Choose material words, then describe how surfaces interact, age, and hold light in Midjourney.
3 min readLong reads
15 guidesTechnique and craft, at article length.
Fix the Picture: A Symptom-to-Cure Guide
Ignored subjects, twin heads, plastic skin, mangled hands, muddy color, drifting style. Name the symptom, apply the cure.
3 min readWriting the Subject: What's In the Picture
One focal point, a verb, concrete counts, and spatial anchors. The least-taught slot in a prompt.
3 min readAspect Ratios: The Shape Decides the Picture
Wide frames ask for places, tall frames ask for figures. Five shapes, the flags and pixel pairs, and how to write for each.
3 min readConsistent Characters Across Images
A frozen character block, one canon image, and the identity tool each generator offers, from --cref to LoRAs to the edit loop.
3 min readNegative Prompts: What to Leave Out
What belongs in a negative prompt, what doesn't, and why the forty-term boilerplate hurts more than it helps.
2 min readArchitecture Through the Ages: a Six-Part Series
Six architecture guides for AI art prompts, spanning ancient civilizations through neoclassical countries.
17 min readPrompt Engineering, Properly
How a prompt steers the model: artistic language, mood, composition, and examples you can copy.
2 min read15 Tips to Not Suck at MidJourney
Learn how to test Midjourney prompts, compare results, use seeds, and revise with intent.
3 min readHow to Master Color in AI Art
Learn how hue, value, saturation, contrast, and palette choices change AI art.
5 min readHow to Create Coloring Book Pages with Stable Diffusion
Build Stable Diffusion prompts for line art pages with subjects, negative prompts, and diffusion steps.
3 min read100 Ways To Make Money With MidJourney
100 income ideas for AI art, grouped by field, from client work to print on demand.
6 min readMastering Prompt Engineering
Plan Stable Diffusion prompts with subject, style, camera, lighting, and negative prompts.
7 min readPop Art Portraits
Make Midjourney portraits with pop art color, print texture, pose, and framing.
8 min readIntroduction to Pop Art in the AI Era
Build pop art prompts with a subject, clear features, color, pattern, setting, and weights.
4 min readComposition, Color, and Style: the Cheat Sheet
Use composition, color, and style terms to shape images in Stable Diffusion and Midjourney.
12 min readSeasonal
10 guidesHoliday and season prompts, ready to copy.
30 Autumn Prompts for AI Art
Harvest, fog, forests, rain, cozy rooms, and Halloween night, ready to copy.
3 min read30 Summer Prompts for AI Art
Beaches, golden evenings, gardens, food, festivals, and storms. Copy a line, swap one slot, render.
3 min readSpring Pastel Colors for AI Art & Design
Use spring pastel names and palettes to make softer prompts, cleaner images, and lighter design work.
6 min read30 Christmas Prompts for Stable Diffusion
Copy festive prompts for cartoons, painted scenes, handmade textures, and modern holiday art.
5 min readChristmas Abstract Art Prompts
Make abstract Christmas art with movement, color, geometry, brushwork, and festive mood.
5 min read15 Valentine's Day Card Design Prompts
Fifteen Valentine's Day card design prompts for Stable Diffusion and Midjourney, with ideas for romance, animals, flowers, and more.
2 min read15 Valentine's Day Phone Background Prompts
Fifteen Valentine's Day phone background prompts for Stable Diffusion and Midjourney, from patterns and flowers to city scenes and stars.
2 min read15 Valentine's Day Art Print Prompts for Couples
Fifteen Valentine's Day art print prompts for couples, using art movements from Impressionism and Art Deco to Gothic and Minimalism.
3 min read15 Valentine's Day Craft Ideas with AI Art
Fifteen Valentine's Day craft ideas that use AI art, from cards and portraits to stickers, coasters, tote bags, and a jar of wishes.
4 min readMaking Greeting Cards with AI Art
Make card images with print margins, a defined border, and clear space for a handwritten note.
2 min readLLM guides
5 guidesPrompting the chat models, including the image models that live inside them.
Prompting Chat Image Models
Nano Banana and GPT-Image read sentences, not keyword stacks. Same wall words, new dialect, and an edit loop.
2 min readMastering AI Conversations: Prompting ChatGPT, Claude, and Deepseek
Use clear requests, context, constraints, and revision to guide text models.
3 min readPractical o3 Prompting: A Guide with Examples
Structure reasoning tasks with precise inputs, formats, tools, and review steps.
4 min readUsing ChatGPT to Write Image Prompts
Turn a chat model into your prompt writer: recipes, wall-word shortlists, one-axis variations, and critique.
3 min readSystem Prompts, Plainly
What belongs in standing instructions, how to write rules the model can follow, and two working examples.
3 min readEssays
2 guidesWhere this all came from.
50,000 Images Since VQGAN: What Midjourney v7 Gets Right
A hands-on look at Midjourney v7 for product photography, from strong results to limits that still need human review.
5 min readAI in Art: Why Fear Misinterprets the Future of Creative Expression
Why AI is another artistic tool, how transformative use applies, and why artists remain at the center of the work.
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