Thanks so much for this video, Christian. It's especially helpful to see your thought process and how you set up the reverse engineering experiments. Lots of lightbulb moments!

About time Christian, I've been waiting for your next video!

GPT4 is so polite. It warms my heart. Chris: Thank you sooo much. You have no idea how enormously useful your video is. ✨✨✨✨

2:51 'Don't lie. ' 🤣 Great video! Fantastic way of referencing a style. Take it a step further and mix artists' styles and we're onto something even more. The inspiration is endless. Thanks for this. 💯

Thanks for your videos and tutorials… appreciate your works as always, keep it up Bro!

Thanks a lot fornyour incredibly informative videos Christian. I really love the experimental approach that you convey in most of them and how concise they are.

AHHH this person is up set with you tube!!! I never got notified about this video!!! Thank you Mr. Heidon 😊

This man is a GENIUS! In a few minutes he (basically) recreated a famous artist's style without referencing his name in the prompt. The images are strikingly similar, and for some of the images I even thought that the created style was better than the artist's style - just my personal preference. Thanks for this awesome video!

Thank you! It was very informative.

This is a great video - once again! 💯 thank you for this cool tip!

Impressive! Those examples look almost identical!

Christian, another excellent video. I'm loath to using an artists name because it's their art after all. I do like to follow their "school" of art though. I've been doing a kludgy job of researching the artist style to come up with how they were trained and using the characteristics of the "style" they were taught to create similar looking art but your method is genius and so much faster. Thank you for sharing.

Great work, man. Thank you for this.

Fantastic - so interesting - and useful! 😊🙏

Thanks for this! I noted that artists style applied using their name work well although most of them add elements that are not always appropriate for what we want to achieve: some will depict a certain period, or favor one ethnic group or even add people to a scene. You are providing us with a way that has a great potential to get around this! Thanks again!

Christian, excellent video as usual, plus I think you've hit on a central idea for systems like MJ You could identify the concepts of anyone's art by using /describe on a large selection of their works, then identifying the N (10, 20, ... your choice) most common phrases out of all the phrases used for each work by all evaluators. And I think you've hinted at embedding -- since the training images were probably described by human evaluators, the "in the style of" set of artist style descriptions could be essentially embedded vectors of smaller concepts.

Many thanks! I learned a great deal including (1), how to use CGPT to optimize prompts for other apps / use cases, and (2) the value of a precise style guide to help improve my prompting.

Brilliant and next level informative. 🤔

This method makes me feel better about using certain styles 👍 thanks.

great vid! tnx!

In all last 4 pictures the subject from the images created using directly the artist's name is bigger, it fills the 2/3 of the picture. To make the two sets of pictures even more similar, you can add something like "close-up"

Nice choice for Art Adams, he's long been a favorite artist of mine. I strangely once found myself in a conversation with Art and Mike Mignola where they were talking about how great Bill Sinkevich is. Art mentioned he once told Bill about a New Mutants cover he always loved, and Bill offered to give him the original. Art accepted, but only if Bill would choose an original piece from Art that he could return in favor. Art received the New Mutants cover, but never received a trade request from Sinkevich. Art jokingly concluded that it's because Bill doesn't like any of his artwork, and to this day, that is the only thing that drives him: To make a piece of art that will impress Bill Sinkevich!

Excellent!

Thanks Chris, for this video, It is so informative, but I'm lazy to ask all of these questions 😅 to ChatGPT so I took your style prompt and asked chatgpt to generate a similar but for Van Gogh, and It works very well 😍

Just discovered this vid. I'm not finished watching it, but I found it interesting that you have an ethical hangup over prompting using an artist's name, yet you are perfectly willing to prompt midjourney into giving you output that uses his style. You must know full well that midjourney will still be accessing work from his portfolio in the dataset , so in the end, seems like a lot of effort for very little gain. I do respect the process however, and discovery is key, so if you stumble into a method of gaining consistency across subjects as a result, that I can get behind.

can you get the art style details from an image with an unknown/unfamiliar artist? I want to use midjourney to create a collecrion of images based on my personal drawing style but i dont known how my style be described.

Hi thanks for your great content, I have see you with Philip Ander, Now I am subscribed, I have question about text for Print on demand, Philip say Dall E 3 is better than Midjourney text to image what you think about it? Have a good Day

I totally love your videos! What platform/ software do you use for video editing?

Thanks.

This is the first time I've ever gotten a good result from AI generated art. Your tutorials are brilliant, while still being realistic and hype free. Thanks!

Hear that? A horde of Artist REEE into the void now that we can deconstruct their art styles.

I tried to get an illustration in the style of Quentin Blake and got hilarious results. Still very limited for certain styles.

Hi @TokenizedAI, I saw this first in Twitter, what can I say? Thank you very much for share your work with us, doesn't matter if there will be controversial, you always give us the ideas and how we can replicate this is more than anyone here can ask. So thank you very much.

I have an observation that might help you moving forward with your understanding of MidJou If you pay attention to MidJou within Discord during the creation process , you get a handle on the evolution of the art. Typically, a base coat of color. Then a proportioned shape as per our promts. A general outline, with simplistic details Then a more polished phase to the art . . . This is one method artists are taught to the creation process. That said, the colorization of Mr. Adams and the AI work popped out at me right away. Strip away the pencil marks and the images have an under tone of color that is similar. P.s. I was a pencil and Ink artist in my younger days. All Black and white, but using the lead to shade and shadow.

I'm interested by your online course, but I can't fond the duration or the number of videos for every chapters. I wanted to have an idea about the time needed to follow it.

I like very much your videos, perhaps I have a topic for your next video. There are so many videos about Midjourney Coloring Pages how easy they are to create...etc, however I do know for a fact that Amazon already has a lot of bad feedback from customers buying AI made Coloring books, which are very bad quality wised. I checked personally hundreds of these feedbacks to identify the issue with those Books. Based on customer feedbacks they are no clean, mainly because of the shades or they are too detailed. I hope you will find a workaround by advanced promting to create Really - Clean Quality Vector kind Coloring book pages. I'm 100% convinced despite Amazon aproves nearly any kind of coloring books on their website the majority from the Ai space is not yet 100% Book quality and they never rank.

Wow

To give you even more context, I have worked on a Childrens Book for 3 months, it was my very first book ever created really put a lot of work into it. For my second book I was about to make a coloring book, however, after 3 days of trying out Midjourney's different Coloring Page promts I can say that they are not clean, fully understandable from customers perspective those Amazon's feedbacks. In other Words Midjourney's Coloring pages still need a lot of Cleaning work, you have to vectorize and clean the unnecesary shades..etc you end up working on a low content book to much.

Hey Christian, any idea how to do this with an artist that is really obscure? Someone not recognized by ChatGPT?

You should always use the artist's name if you're going to change *nothing* about the art style. Learn to be efficient. Now, if you're going to change element(s) from the art style, this could be useful. That being said, this was useful for me to learn about how an art style comes to be. I didn't think MJ could replicate the art style using "key words", which is probably gonna make me experiment to find unique art styles.

Interesting video, what would be really nice is to use a certain style to apply to images, and translate them into that style, while this works, the outcome is not consistent and it also varies depending on what image you want to apply it

Oh, the controversy! While watching, I considered whether laws might protect those who avoid using artists' names and whether doing so would make a difference. This is especially relevant if an AI detector can measure the percentage of a style used, even though such technology is not yet available. I imagine something will be created in the future along these lines. I also wonder if using an artist's name could ever be considered copyright infringement (there are good arguments both for and against this). So, it's unclear where the law will stand - it's possible that using an artist's name could end up being completely legal. I think the most compelling argument that AI-generated images are NOT infringing on any copyright is how AI diffusion works. Given that diffusion models create unique images from random noise grains and apply your prompt to those grains, it seems less likely that infringement is occurring. From my experience, reverse image searches via Bing, Google, Yandex, or Tineye, etc. always show that the images the AI creates are unique and not copies. On the other hand, the biggest argument that they are infringing relates to taking away an artist's market share while operating in their same genre. However, the overall debate seems to favor how AI works, making it more likely that AI will prevail legally. When GPT-4 computer vision arrives, it might be the ideal way to describe an artist's style without mentioning their name. However, describing the style might be too similar to using the name anyway, because they may develop style percentage detection in the future, which may not offer much legal protection. Additionally, the MJ describe feature emulates styles effectively. While avoiding using an artist's name may appear more politically correct, the output differences may not be significant in terms of how copyright law ultimately evolves, especially when style percentage detection becomes a reality. Are artist who are complaining about AI being hypocritical? Rutkowski clearly takes influence from Frazetta? One thing to consider is that artists who claim AI is infringing on their art may themselves be “infringing” on certain aspects of artists who came before them if they were to use their same standard of infringement they are claiming the AI image generators are committing. So, at what point is supposed copyright infringement actually natural inspiration and influence that artists have always had? AI is just so proficient at inspiration and influence that it looks bad politically, but in reality, AI image diffusion models work in much the same way human artists do when they're inspired. Do they not? You’re right this is dripping in controversy, so it will be fascinating to see where the law lands on this issue. It could go either way, but I believe AI technology has a stronger argument for not being considered infringement considering how it works, scientifically. Another approach companies could adopt is creating completely royalty-free datasets of imagery, hiring artists to create images for the dataset, and granting the subscribers 100% legal rights to create the images using AI. This seems to be the approach Adobe is taking. However, a criticism of this approach Adobe is taking is that it assumes creations from platforms like Stable Diffusion, Dalle, or Midjourney are copyright infringement, which is not yet clear AT ALL. Personally, I don't think it's infringement; it's just advanced technology that does what we've always done - using inspiration and influence to create new art. It just does so much better due to machine learning, neural networks, and AI - and so right now in history that skill the AI has is so high level it looks bad politically, even though in reality its no different than what artists have always done.

In the beginning I thought you were going to use MidJourney's "Describe" command. Wouldn't that get similar results much faster?

thanks a lot, can you make a video of how to make an ai aet based on a random image we find, how ro extract info from it and how to replicate it, most of the time the images i find have no artist name which is why I am asking if it is possible

Could you show in the video how to improve midjourney pictures quality to get them ready for printing?

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Isn't it the case that v5 is better with actual descriptions instead of just using keywords? That's at least the official word.

Here’s the problem. MidJourney limits the number of tokens it will process. An artist’s name is a single token. Your prompt contains 15-20. That SEVERELY limits the number of tokens you can use to describe the scene. It’s ok if you just was an interior of a spaceship. But if you want to describe the subject in any detail, you would be better to just use the artist’s name.

Artists always borrow other artists' styles as long as they make their own work original.

I get where you're going with this, but referencing Adams in ChatGPT is still referencing the artist, even though it wasn't in MJ. I think the best way and more "pure" way is to be generic when asking about comics in ChatGPT. Just generalize the question based on the style of comic you want to create, not the artist. Then break it down when you feel some keywords that you feel are the best fit. And honestly, I'm not here to criticize or knock the method - I enjoy your content. Just commenting on the goal of this video. But good job on all the content.

reverse engineering. 👌👏

This is a hell of a lot of effort to then refer to yourself repeatedly as lazy when the simplest method is to refer to the artist. Neither someone's name nor their art style can be copyrighted so anyone full of consternation about this can be safely ignored and ridiculed. Just use the artist's name and move on.

I love the line "Don't lie" used with Chat GPT :))))

this is completely useless in stable diffusion since the model or the lora mostly dictate the style :(