Here is a castle prompt experiment with my ideas/results. For this AI art prompt experiment, I used one positive and one negative prompt, with the same seed and runtime, weight and other settings. For each step, I just make a couple changes, usually moving some part of the prompt into the negative prompt, and/or removing dashes, or making slight changes to the prompt (without ever changing the seed and other settings).
By changing just a few words (or brackets) in the prompt, you can get drastically different results. In this blog post, we will experiment to see how the results change.
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step 1 – Original Prompt
“steampunk-swamp night-castle by Dan Mumford in front of massive huge-moon, smooth cartoon-art-illustration. atmospheric lovely incandescent blue of the twilight sky by Raymond Swanland. darkwave bog inspired by Android Jones, James Jean. Michael Kaluta, Aleksandr Kuskov, Christophe Heughe. Joe Fenton. maximalist. SFX”. Weight:1
Negative “ugly, tiling, poorly drawn, out of frame, disfigured, deformed, blurry, bad anatomy, blurred, watermark, grainy, signature, cut off, draft” Weight:-0.3
Step 2
Changes: This one has more changes than the others. I moved to negative prompt “SFX. James Jean. Michael Kaluta, Christophe Heughe. Aleksandr Kuskov” added “cut-off, off screen and unbalanced” to negative prompt. In the positive prompt: put things in brackets, moved the words around.
“[huge Joe Fenton castle ]in front of [darkwave-massive-moon by Android Jones]. steampunk-swamp night, smooth cartoon-art-illustration. atmospheric lovely incandescent blue of the twilight sky by Raymond Swanland. maximalist. [Dan Mumford bog]” Weight:1
Negative: “SFX. James Jean. cut off. off screen. unbalanced. Aleksandr Kuskov. ugly, tiling, poorly drawn, out of frame, disfigured, deformed, blurry, bad anatomy, blurred, watermark, grainy, signature, cut off, draft. Michael Kaluta, Christophe Heughe.”
This is the exact same prompt, only without any brackets:
Step 3
Changes: This one only has a small change which caused the castle to go away completely: I Moved “steampunk. Michael Kaluta” to the negative prompt.
“swamp night-castle by Dan Mumford in front of massive huge-moon, smooth cartoon-art-illustration. atmospheric lovely incandescent blue of the twilight sky by Raymond Swanland. darkwave bog inspired by Android Jones, James Jean., Aleksandr Kuskov, Christophe Heughe. Joe Fenton. maximalist. SFX” Weight:1
Negative: “steampunk. Michael Kaluta. ugly, tiling, poorly drawn, out of frame, disfigured, deformed, blurry, bad anatomy, blurred, watermark, grainy, signature, cut off, draft” Weight:-0.3
Step 4
Changes: For this on, I moved “in front of massive huge-moon” to the negative prompt.
“steampunk-swamp night-castle by Dan Mumford, smooth cartoon-art-illustration. atmospheric lovely incandescent blue of the twilight sky by Raymond Swanland. darkwave bog inspired by Android Jones, James Jean. Michael Kaluta, Aleksandr Kuskov, Christophe Heughe. Joe Fenton. maximalist. SFX” Weight:1
“ugly, tiling, poorly drawn, out of frame, disfigured, deformed, blurry, bad anatomy, blurred, watermark, grainy, signature, cut off, draft. in front of massive huge-moon” Weight:-0.3
Step 5 [brackets vs. No brackets]
As it turns out, brackets do make a difference. Image on the left has no brackets and image on the right has brackets (see below for prompt). The brackets are the only change.
“castle [Android-Jones-steampunk-swamp] in the art style of Dan Mumford, smooth cartoon-art-illustration. atmospheric lovely incandescent blue of the twilight sky by Raymond Swanland. darkwave bog inspired by James Jean. Michael Kaluta, Aleksandr Kuskov. Joe Fenton. maximalist. SFX-night” Weight:1
Negative: “out of frame. cut off. off screen. ugly, tiling, poorly drawn, out of frame, disfigured, deformed, blurry, bad anatomy, blurred, watermark, grainy, signature, cut off, draft. in front of massive huge-moon. Christophe Heughe”
Step 6
Changes: For this one, I moved “lovely incandescent blue of the twilight sky by Raymond Swanland” to the negative prompt.
“steampunk-swamp night-castle by Dan Mumford in front of massive huge-moon, smooth cartoon-art-illustration. atmospheric. darkwave bog inspired by Android Jones, James Jean. Michael Kaluta, Aleksandr Kuskov, Christophe Heughe. Joe Fenton. maximalist. SFX”
Negative: “ugly, tiling, poorly drawn, out of frame, disfigured, deformed, blurry, bad anatomy, blurred, watermark, grainy, signature, cut off, draft. lovely incandescent blue of the twilight sky by Raymond Swanland.”
Same prompt using Dream Wombo
The prompts above were created on Nightcafe, and below is the exact same positive prompts using Dream Wombo. Dream doesn’t allow negative prompts.
prompt: steampunk-swamp night-castle by Dan Mumford in front of massive huge-moon, smooth cartoon-art-illustration. atmospheric. darkwave bog inspired by Android Jones, James Jean. Michael Kaluta, Aleksandr Kuskov, Christophe Heughe. Joe Fenton. maximalist. SFX
Preset: Night v2.
Preset: Horror Cut V2.1
Prompt: castle [Android-Jones-steampunk-swamp] in the art style of Dan Mumford, smooth cartoon-art-illustration. atmospheric lovely incandescent blue of the twilight sky by Raymond Swanland. darkwave bog inspired by James Jean. Michael Kaluta, Aleksandr Kuskov. Joe Fenton. maximalist. SFX-night
Preset: Spectral V2
Preset: Gloomy
[huge Joe Fenton castle ]in front of [darkwave-massive-moon by Android Jones]. steampunk-swamp night, smooth cartoon-art-illustration. atmospheric lovely incandescent blue of the twilight sky by Raymond Swanland. maximalist. [Dan Mumford bog]
Preset: HDR v2:
Preset: Analogue
Original prompt: “steampunk-swamp night-castle by Dan Mumford in front of massive huge-moon, smooth cartoon-art-illustration. atmospheric lovely incandescent blue of the twilight sky by Raymond Swanland. darkwave bog inspired by Android Jones, James Jean. Michael Kaluta, Aleksandr Kuskov, Christophe Heughe. Joe Fenton. maximalist. SFX””steampunk-swamp night-castle by Dan Mumford in front of massive huge-moon, smooth cartoon-art-illustration. atmospheric lovely incandescent blue of the twilight sky by Raymond Swanland. darkwave bog inspired by Android Jones, James Jean. Michael Kaluta, Aleksandr Kuskov, Christophe Heughe. Joe Fenton. maximalist. SFX”
Preset: Unrealistic
