I’m excited to showcase my expertise on Stable Diffusion prompts and provide you with lots of great examples and insights! As an avid Stable Diffusion user myself, I have spent countless hours experimenting with different prompts to create stunning AI-generated art.
Crafting the perfect prompt is an art in itself – with the right words and formatting, you can guide the AI to produce incredible images that bring your creative vision to life. From specifying styles and lighting to adding conditions and modifiers, prompts give you granular control over the final output.
Let me walk you through the prompt anatomy and then dive into some of my favorite examples across different categories!
Anatomy of a Stable Diffusion Prompt
A typical Stable Diffusion prompt has a few key components:
- Subject – The main focus of the image. This could be a person, animal, object, scene, etc. Be as specific as possible.
- Style – The desired artistic style like oil painting, vector art, pixel art etc. Specify a particular artist for more consistency.
- Lighting & Background – Details about lighting, environment, background etc. This sets the tone and mood.
- Conditions – Additional descriptive details about the subject like poses, facial expressions, color schemes etc.
- Modifiers – Special formatting like image dimensions, level of detail/quality, framing etc.
Let’s look at some examples that showcase effective use of these prompt components.
Portrait Prompts
Stylized Celebrity Portraits
A stylized portrait of Keanu Reeves as Neo from The Matrix movie, digital art by Greg Rutkowski and Alphonse Mucha, sharp focus, intricate details, cinematic lighting, unreal engineThis prompt generates a celebrity portrait that combines the styles of two different artists within a specific movie context. The sharp focus, cinematic lighting and unreal engine modifier ensures a vivid, high quality output.
Retro Futuristic Portraits
A retro futuristic digital portrait of a beautiful woman with blue skin and glowing circuitry tattoos on her face, 1980's style, intricate details, by Hajime Sorayama and Syd Mead, cinematic lighting, unreal engine This unique prompt fuses retro futurism with modern styles to render a visually striking female portrait. The 1980’s influence, artist references and specific facial details guides the AI to generate as per the intended aesthetic.
Landscape Prompts
Fantasy Landscapes
An epic mystical landscape digital painting, misty grassy plains with a huge ancient tree in the foreground, giant mountains floating in the skies, by Greg Rutkowski and Thomas Kinkade, trending on artstation This prompt generates wondrous fantasy landscapes by combining the styles of two landscape artists within specific scenic conditions. The modifiers like “epic”, “mystical” and “trending on artstation” pushes the AI to render higher quality, popular compositions.
Futuristic Cityscapes
A futuristic vibrant cityscape digital painting, with towering skyscrapers and flying vehicles, in the style of Blade Runner and Cyberpunk 2077, extremely detailed, sharp focus, by Hajime Sorayama and Syd MeadThis prompt fuses futuristic styles and sci-fi influences to render complex urban cityscapes teeming with technological elements. The sharp focus and extreme detail modifier results in highly precise, vivid generative art.
Animal Prompts
Cute Cartoon Animals
A cute baby red panda cartoon character holding a bamboo shoot, soft pastel background, intricate linework, Disney style, by Stephen Silver and James Gurney This prompt generates adorable cartoon animal art by blending Disney’s style with two renowned illustrators. Specific details like the bamboo shoot and soft pastel background enhances the cute composition.
Hybrid Fantasy Creatures
A mystical dragon wolf hybrid creature flying over a fantasy landscape, extremely detailed scales and fur, sharp teeth, by Greg Rutkowski and Simon Stålenhag, matte painting trending on ArtStationThis prompt fuses animal elements to create magical hybrid creatures within fantasy settings rendered in popular styles. The emphasis on details like scales and fur makes the output more realistic while the modifier pushes quality.
As you can see, crafting the perfect prompt is integral to creating incredible AI art with Stable Diffusion. Play around with different styles, lighting, conditions and modifiers to guide the AI to generate stunning images that bring your creative vision to life!
Useful Prompt Engineering Resources
- PromptHero – Curated prompt database
- PromptMania – Prompt generator tool
- Lexica – Custom dataset training
- Prompt Engineering Guide – Prompt formatting guide
I hope you found these Stable Diffusion prompt examples helpful! Let me know if you have any other questions – happy prompting!