Artificial Intelligence, AI Art & Prompt Engineering

Improve your AI text-to-image prompts with a descriptive narrative

AI-Generated Art: How to Narrativize a Prompt for Stunning Art

Text-to-image prompts are often seen as very clinical and detached. It’s one reason why critics refuse to see it as art (an opinion I disagree with) — as if AI art is just ordered Subway-style from a string of random descriptors:

hyper-realistic, cinematic, detailed, hypermaximalist, octane render, unreal engine 5, 8K

And yes: you can construct a prompt that way, and in another post, I’ll show you how to reverse-engineer a prompt from these generic terms.

But there’s more to it than that. Harnessing the power of natural language processing (NLP) is key to creating far more compelling imaginative art.

With Machine Learning, NLP is our paintbrush

Recently I’ve written about how word choice can give us vibrant colors:

“Name that color!” How to prompt AI image generators with better color and palette descriptions