AI Art Tutorial | Vivid Color Styles | Midjourney v5.2
TLDRCarly's tutorial on AI art focuses on achieving vivid color schemes through specific prompts. She introduces three basic color styles: neon, vibrant, and vivid, and explains how to use them effectively in AI art creation. Carly showcases 70 full-screen examples, highlighting how these styles can be applied to various subjects like people, animals, backgrounds, and race cars. The video also explores eight different industry art aesthetics that embrace vivid colors, such as acid pixie, bubble gum, glitch, glow wave, low poly, pixel scape, tropical, and vapor wave. Each aesthetic is characterized by unique visual elements and color palettes, offering a diverse range of creative inspiration for artists looking to incorporate vivid colors into their AI-generated art.
Takeaways
- π¨ **Neon Colors**: Fluorescent hues that are bright and bold, often used to convey excitement or a cutting-edge style.
- π **Vibrant Colors**: Highly saturated colors without the neon glow, used to create warmth and depth in compositions.
- π **Vivid Colors**: Refers to the purity and clarity of colors, encompassing a wide range of saturated and intense hues.
- π **Acid Pixie Aesthetic**: Emphasizes bright colors, psychedelic patterns, and a sense of otherworldly magic, often associated with the early 1990s rave culture.
- π¬ **Bubble Gum Aesthetic**: Captures the essence of light-hearted pop culture from the mid to late 20th century, with a pastel color palette and a glossy finish.
- π **Glitch Art**: Utilizes digital or analog errors for aesthetic purposes, characterized by pixelation, color distortion, and fragmentation.
- π **Glow Wave Aesthetic**: Combines elements of 80s retro style with futuristic concepts, featuring neon glows, bright colors, and retrofuturistic themes.
- ποΈ **Low Poly Art**: Defined by a minimalist approach with geometric simplicity, faceted appearance, and vibrant colors, often with a digital feel.
- π **Pixel Scape**: Blends pixel art with landscape imagery, inspired by early computer and console video games, with pixel grids and limited, yet vibrant, color palettes.
- π΄ **Tropical Aesthetic**: Inspired by the vivid colors, textures, and shapes of tropical environments, featuring a lively color palette and a sense of escapism and adventure.
- π **Vapor Wave**: A cultural movement with visuals that are a collage of retro elements and cyberpunk influences, dominated by pastels, neon glow, and dreamlike qualities.
Q & A
What are the three basic color styles that can be used in prompts to achieve vivid colors in AI art?
-The three basic color styles that can be used in prompts to achieve vivid colors in AI art are neon, vibrant, and vivid.
How does using the word 'aesthetic' in a prompt influence the AI's color choices?
-Using the word 'aesthetic' in a prompt helps ensure that the AI influences color choices without overwhelming the entire image with vivid colors.
What is the difference between neon and vibrant colors in the context of AI art?
-Neon colors are fluorescent hues that are extraordinarily bright and bold, often used to create a sense of excitement or energy. Vibrant colors are highly saturated but lack the fluorescent glow of neon, often used for creating a sense of warmth or artistic richness.
What is the 'acid pixie' aesthetic and what are its common elements?
-The 'acid pixie' aesthetic is a subculture that emphasizes bright colors, psychedelic patterns, and a sense of otherworldly magic. It often includes neon or bright colors, especially pink, purple, and green, and may feature otherworldly imagery such as mushrooms, fairies, and magical creatures.
How does the 'bubble gum' aesthetic differ from the 'acid pixie' aesthetic?
-The 'bubble gum' aesthetic captures the essence of light-hearted pop culture from the mid to late 20th century, with a color palette dominated by pastel shades, particularly pinks, blues, and purples. It differs from the 'acid pixie' aesthetic by expressing optimism and a carefree spirit, often producing a glossy finish to objects and surfaces.
What are the visual characteristics of glitch art?
-Glitch art often includes pixelation, where the image is broken down into individual pixels or dots, creating a distorted or choppy effect. It may also feature color distortion and fragmentation, where the original image appears to have been separated into different pieces and then arranged to create a new image.
What elements are commonly found in the 'glow wave' aesthetic?
-The 'glow wave' aesthetic is characterized by vibrant, neon-drenched visuals that combine elements of 80s retro style with futuristic concepts. It often includes neon glows, bright saturated colors, retrofuturistic themes, synth wave or vapor wave inspired elements, holographic and digital motifs, and dreamlike ethereal qualities.
How is the 'low poly' art aesthetic defined?
-The 'low poly' art aesthetic is defined by a minimalist approach where images are composed of a reduced number of polygons. It features geometric simplicity, a faceted appearance, vibrant colors, and an expressly digital feel.
What are the visual characteristics of the 'pixel scape' art aesthetic?
-The 'pixel scape' art aesthetic includes pixel grids, where each pixel detail is rendered as part of a grid with larger square pixels as the basic unit. It features limited colors, often more vibrant, reminiscent of early gaming systems with restricted color palettes.
What is the 'tropical' art aesthetic and how is it visually characterized?
-The 'tropical' art aesthetic is inspired by the vivid colors, abundant textures, and organic shapes found in tropical environments. It is characterized by a lively color palette of saturated sundrenched hues like turquoise, emerald, fuchsia, sunflower yellow, and tangerine, capturing the vibrant energy and diversity of life in tropical nature.
How does the 'vapor wave' aesthetic differ from other art aesthetics mentioned in the script?
-The 'vapor wave' aesthetic is a visual and cultural movement that emerged in the early 2010s, drawing from 80s and 90s nostalgia, internet culture, and consumer capitalism critiques. It features a collage of retro elements and cyberpunk influences with a color palette dominated by pastels and a neon glow, often including imagery such as 80s and 90s advertising material, classical sculptures, tropical palm trees, and consumer electronics of the era.
What is the significance of using AI art to create vivid color schemes?
-Using AI art to create vivid color schemes allows for the generation of visually striking images and more memorable compositions. It enables artists to experiment with a wide range of saturated and intense colors, creating unique and impactful pieces of art.
Outlines
π¨ Vivid Color Schemes in AI Art Tutorial
Carly introduces a tutorial focusing on how to prompt AI for vivid color schemes in art. The video promises to showcase 70 full-screen examples across various styles, providing insights into the amazing colors achievable with standard art industry aesthetics. Carly explains three basic color styles: neon, vibrant, and vivid, emphasizing the importance of using the term 'aesthetic' after the color name in prompts to guide the AI's color choices without overwhelming the image. The tutorial will demonstrate these color styles with eight different industry art aesthetics, each illustrated with four basic subjects: persons, animals, backgrounds, and race cars, chosen for their potential to convey action and energy through color. All examples are created using mid-Journey version 5.2.
π Exploring Various Aesthetics with Vivid Colors
The second paragraph delves into distinct art aesthetics that embrace vivid colors. The 'Acid Pixie' aesthetic, linked to the early '90s rave culture, features bright colors, psychedelic patterns, and otherworldly magic, often including pink, purple, and green hues. The 'Bubble Gum' aesthetic captures a sense of nostalgia and playfulness, with pastel shades and motifs like candy and balloons. 'Glitch' art uses digital errors for aesthetic purposes, characterized by pixelation, color distortion, and fragmentation. 'Glow Wave' combines neon-drenched visuals with retro and futuristic elements, featuring neon glows, retrofuturistic themes, and dreamlike qualities. 'Low Poly' art is minimalist, with geometric simplicity and vibrant colors, often with a digital feel. 'Pixel Scape' is inspired by early video games, characterized by pixel grids and limited, yet vibrant, colors. The 'Tropical' aesthetic is inspired by the rich colors and textures of tropical environments, offering a sense of escapism and adventure. Lastly, 'Vapor Wave' is a cultural movement with a collage of retro and cyberpunk influences, dominated by pastels and neon glow, often featuring skewed proportions and perspectives.
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Keywords
π‘Vivid Color Schemes
π‘Neon Colors
π‘Vibrant Colors
π‘Aesthetic
π‘Acid Pixie
π‘Bubble Gum
π‘Glitch Art
π‘Glow Wave
π‘Low Poly
π‘Pixel Scape
π‘Tropical
π‘Vapor Wave
Highlights
Carly presents a tutorial on achieving vivid color schemes in AI art through specific prompts.
70 full-screen examples demonstrate various vivid color styles in AI art.
Three basic color styles are neon, vibrant, and vivid, each influencing AI's color choices differently.
Using 'aesthetic' after a color name ensures AI focuses on color choices rather than overwhelming the image.
Neon colors are fluorescent hues used to create excitement or imply a cutting-edge style.
Vibrant colors are highly saturated, creating warmth and artistic richness without a fluorescent glow.
Vivid colors encompass a wide range of saturated and intense colors for visually striking images.
Eight industry art aesthetics and styles are showcased, each with four basic prompts for different subjects.
Acid pixie aesthetic emphasizes bright colors, psychedelic patterns, and a sense of otherworldly magic.
Bubble gum aesthetic captures light-hearted pop culture with pastel shades and a glossy finish.
Glitch art uses digital or analog errors for aesthetic purposes, creating pixelation, color distortion, and fragmentation.
Glow wave aesthetic combines neon-drenched visuals with retro style and futuristic concepts.
Low poly art is characterized by geometric simplicity, faceted appearance, and vibrant colors.
Pixel scape art blends pixel art with landscape imagery, inspired by early video games' visual language.
Tropical art aesthetic is inspired by the vivid colors and organic shapes found in tropical environments.
Vapor wave art is a collage of retro elements and cyberpunk influences with a pastel and neon glow color palette.
The tutorial provides insights into how AI might use color to imply action and energy, particularly with race cars as subjects.
All images in the video are produced using Midjourney version 5.2.