Architecture Through the Ages: a Six-Part Series
Six architecture guides for AI art prompts, spanning ancient civilizations through neoclassical countries.
Guides
The long reads
Everything that doesn't fit on a chip. Free, on-site, rewritten for the web. The Medium originals stay up. These versions get the updates.
The guides
free · on-sitePrompt Engineering, Properly
How a prompt steers the model: artistic language, mood, composition, and examples you can copy.
15 Tips to Not Suck at MidJourney
Learn how to test Midjourney prompts, compare results, use seeds, and revise with intent.
How to Master Color in AI Art
Learn how hue, value, saturation, contrast, and palette choices change AI art.
How to Create Coloring Book Pages with Stable Diffusion
Build Stable Diffusion prompts for line art pages with subjects, negative prompts, and diffusion steps.
100 Ways To Make Money With MidJourney
100 income ideas for AI art, grouped by field, from client work to print on demand.
Mastering Prompt Engineering
Plan Stable Diffusion prompts with subject, style, camera, lighting, and negative prompts.
Pop Art Portraits
Make Midjourney portraits with pop art color, print texture, pose, and framing.
Introduction to Pop Art in the AI Era
Build pop art prompts with a subject, clear features, color, pattern, setting, and weights.
Creating Animals in Stable Diffusion
Write animal prompts with species, pose, habitat, lens, and detail control.
Composition, Color, and Style: the Cheat Sheet
Use composition, color, and style terms to shape images in Stable Diffusion and Midjourney.
Mastering Patterns in AI Art
Use pattern terms to build repeats, borders, textiles, surfaces, and image details in AI art.
Mastering Art Styles in Stable Diffusion
Use art style terms to guide Stable Diffusion prompts for paintings, prints, drawings, and mixed media.
How I Use My List of Midjourney Styles
Use art movements and prompt terms to test clear styles in Midjourney.
How I Use Colors, Palettes, and Patterns
Use color, palette, and pattern terms to plan prompts for Stable Diffusion and Midjourney.
Spring Pastel Colors for AI Art & Design
Use spring pastel names and palettes to make softer prompts, cleaner images, and lighter design work.
Mastering Textures and Materials in AI Art
Use texture and material terms to add bark, velvet, glass, rust, wax, and painterly surfaces to AI art.
Prompting Photography and Camera Terms
How lenses, film stocks, and shot types steer AI art, with worked prompts from the photography wall.
Prompting Emotions and Expressions
How emotion words change faces, posture, and scene mood, with worked prompts from the emotions wall.
Prompting Weather and Atmosphere
Weather states, times of day, and atmospheric effects that light a scene for free.
Prompting Interiors and Rooms
Rooms, design styles, and anchor furniture that build a whole set from one word.
Prompting Food and Plating
Named dishes, plating words, and food photo terms that make food prompts specific.
Prompting Vehicles and Transport
How one vehicle word sets era, speed, and place, from steam trains to hover taxis.
Mastering Lighting in Midjourney
Use sunlight, moonlight, LEDs, and neon to control the mood and focus of Midjourney scenes.
Using Materials in AI Art on Midjourney
Choose material words, then describe how surfaces interact, age, and hold light in Midjourney.
30 Christmas Prompts for Stable Diffusion
Copy festive prompts for cartoons, painted scenes, handmade textures, and modern holiday art.
Christmas Abstract Art Prompts
Make abstract Christmas art with movement, color, geometry, brushwork, and festive mood.
15 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.
15 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.
15 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.
15 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.
Making Greeting Cards with AI Art
Make card images with print margins, a defined border, and clear space for a handwritten note.
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LLM Guides
free · on-siteMastering AI Conversations: Prompting ChatGPT, Claude, and Deepseek
Use clear requests, context, constraints, and revision to guide text models.
Practical o3 Prompting: A Guide with Examples
Structure reasoning tasks with precise inputs, formats, tools, and review steps.
Essays
free · on-site50,000 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.
AI 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.