The Ultimate Cheat Sheet to MidJourney Prompting — Artist Styles

30+ Must-Try Artist Influence List for Creating Unique Images on MidJourney!

Are you:

• Looking to generate images on MidJourney with specific styles from different artists?

• Feeling lost in finding the right artist style for your images?

• Overwhelmed with all the Google search results, which leads you to nowhere but more confusion?

I know your struggle, as I’ve had the exact same problem!

Therefore, I’ve decided to spend the whole weekend (literally, the full weekend 😅) digging, researching, and trying out 150+ artist styles on MidJourney, and I’m excited to share with you all what I’ve put together, which helps me a lot on MidJourney prompting with a specific artist style! And… I’m pretty sure you’ll find it helpful too!

In this “The Ultimate Cheat Sheet to MidJourney Prompting — Artist Styles”, I’m going to show you a complete list of carefully selected 30+ Must-Try Artist Style/ Influence, from ancient to the modern age, and in various and diverse artistic styles.

This Ultimate Cheat Sheet is going to show you:

• The original artwork of these finely selected 30+ artists;
• Images generated using these 30+ artist styles using the exact same prompt;
• Wikipedia pages (just click the artist names) of these 30+ artists if you want to learn more about them and explore other artworks from them;
• Read all the way till the end for a little surprise!

If you’re looking to boost your creativity and learn 50+ cheat codes to prompt on MidJourney, you don’t want to miss this one:

If you want to create some jaw-dropping photorealistic images on MidJourney, this is what you need:

Let’s GO!💥

Left: Original artwork of the artist

Right: Generated on MidJourney V5.2 using this exact same prompt — “A blue cat in the style of <artist name> --style raw”

Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890):

Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849):

Jackson Pollock (1912–1956):

Keith Haring (1958–1990):

Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1526–1593):

H.R. Giger (1940–2014):

Pablo Picasso (1881–1973):

Andy Warhol (1928–1987):

Chris Dyer (1979 to present):

René Magritte (1898–1967):

Edvard Munch (1863–1944):

Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960–1988):

Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519):

Katsuhiro Otomo (1954 to present):

Gustav Klimt (1862–1918):

Salvador Dali (1904–1989):

Mary Blair (1911–1978):

Arthur Adams (1963 to present):

Walt Disney (1901–1966):

Edward Bawden (1903–1989):

Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun (1755–1842):

Wayne Barlowe (1958 to present):

Mike Allred (1962 to present):

George Barbier (1882–1932):

Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841–1919):

Butcher Billy (1978 to present):

Benedick Bana (1983 to present):

Angela Barrett (1955 to present):

Wassily Kandinsky (1866–1944):

Gerald Brom (1965 to present):

Romero Britto (1963 to present):

Bill Carman (1957 to prsent):

Peter Bagge (1957 to present):

So, what do you guys think?! Please go ahead and try them out! 😉

Here’s a little bonus surprise for you🎁

To thank you for staying with me all the way till the end, here is a Steve McCurry “Afghan Girl” inspired image for your enjoyment. It’s one of those hundreds of fails while I was trying to generate a blue cat, but turned out this blue-eyed girl with a blue-eyed baby foxlike-kitty turns out to be pretty amazing… don’t you think?! 😍

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Here’s a special shoutout to Ms. Bee Lee, for her crucial effort that contributed to creating this article. Follow her Twitter for her “Daily Dose of AI Art”!

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