THE ART OF THE PROMPT
To produce generative AI art, you will first need to write what’s called a text prompt, which serves as an instruction to the AI model, outlining what it is you want to create. A prompt can be as simple as a person sitting at a café or even a single word like café. The AI model will then do its best to generate an image based on the text prompt provided.
Figure 4: A person sitting at a café (Midjourney)
Similar to how individuals have their own unique approach of using keywords and phrases to search on Google or other search engines, there is no set methodology or code for writing text prompts. This means a prompt can be anything from a list of words separated by commas (i.e. bear, tree), a fragment of a sentence (i.e. bear under a tree), an imperative (i.e. sketch a bear next to a tree), or a full sentence (i.e. A sketch of a bear sitting under a tree.). Correct grammar isn’t necessary as long as the instructions...
