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The prompt book that killed my 3000 word painting backstories
Used to write these huge essays for every AI piece I made. 50 prompts with cultural references, art history terms, all that. Spent an hour on a single bird's wing. Last month I tried a generator at a friend's place in Austin. Just typed basic words. Tree, fog, lantern. Dead simple. The output felt more alive than anything I'd babied for weeks. Realized I was fighting the tool. It thinks in layers. I was forcing it into my outline. Now I start with nouns and weather. Let the machine surprise me. Anyone else find their best results came after they stopped over-directing? What changed for you when you simplified your inputs?
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christopherh794d ago
Funny enough, I had the exact same flip happen back in March. I was feeding Midjourney these 15 line prompts with lighting angles and lens names I barely understood. One night I was tired and just typed "abandoned diner, rain on the windows, blue hour" and that single image had more mood than any of my overbuilt stuff. The thing is, when you strip away all that direction, you are basically leaving room for the model to show you what it actually knows. I stopped treating it like a search engine and started treating it like a weird collaborator with its own taste. Now I write three or four concrete nouns, one feeling word, and a time of day. My hit rate went way up because I quit asking for a specific painting and started asking for a vibe, then I pick the surprises that work.
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