Describe Midjourney

I got back on Midjourney again on March 1, 2024 and used the "/describe" function in Discord.  I uploaded some of my old images -- and fed the four resulting text descriptions as prompts to Midjourney to generate new images.

The text described my original image on the left -- and the best Midjourney result from the four different prompts is on the right (which looks nothing like the original image):

Abstracts

prompt: "an illustration of a horse with her tail curled,

 in the style of experimental structures, pencilsteampunk,

 canon ae-1, tangled nests, expressive figure studies,

 goerz hypergon 6.5mm f/8, skull motifs --ar 62:69 --v 6.0"

Abstracts

prompt: "an old drawing of a giraffe and some bones,

in the style of tony cragg, dynamic figure studies,

 arthur lismer, aerial view, ultrafine detail,

 pensive poses, felicien rops --ar 62:45 --v 6.0"

I then used the text from all four suggestions that Midjourney gave me from the image on the left:

Abstracts

prompt: "drawing of a human figure, in the style of playful distortions,

 free-flowing surrealism, jacek malczewski, 

distorted bodies, carving, rough clusters,

 antoine verney-carron a drawing made from two separate pieces of tissue,

 in the style of figural distortion, flowing surrealism, distorted bodies,

 olympus om-1, undefined anatomy, bentwood, 

trompe-l'œil illusionistic detail drawing of a nose in a paper book, 

in the style of energetic movement, tangled forms,

 unconventional poses, distorted bodies, slumped/draped,

 trompe-l'œil illusionistic detail,

 mythological realism an old drawing of a giraffe and some bones,

 in the style of tony cragg, dynamic figure studies, arthur lismer, 

aerial view, ultrafine detail, pensive poses, felicien rops --ar 62:45 --v 6.0"

Abstracts

prompt: "pen drawing of some animals in various settings,

 in the style of biomorphic abstraction,

 figures in motion, piles/stacks,

 baroque sculptor, layered gestures,

 trompe-l'œil illusionistic detail, tangled nests --ar 31:26 --v 6.0"

August 10, 2014

"a drawing of a woman holding her leg,

 in the style of fragmented compositions,

 konica auto s3, richard parkes bonington,

 dave gibbons, dynamic figure studies,

 irregular structures, pensive poses --ar 62:87 --v 6.0"

prompt: "an old drawing by a very young artist,

 in the style of ghada amer, fragmented figuration,

 david hettinger, precise linework,

 letras y figuras, whiplash curves, giorgione --ar 80:69 --v 6.0"

November Abstracts

prompt: "the lone person in the drawing, 

in the style of mesoamerican influences,

 robotic motifs, distorted and exaggerated forms,

 carving, samikshavad,

 ivan fedorovich choultse, disfigured forms --ar 71:78 --v 6.0"

Rope Sculpture -- Part 1

prompt: "woman with hands in clay sculpture, in the style of bold,

 cartoonish lines, infinity nets,

 dark silver and white, spiral group,

 recycled, interlaced figures, pensive poses --v 6.0"

February 21, 2024

prompt: "a drawing of a body in the air,

 in the style of pointillist dots and dashes,

 conceptual embroideries, pensive poses,

 focus on joints/connections,

 manticore, ultrafine detail, cornelia parker --ar 125:77 --v 6.0"

February 23, 2024 -- Portrait

prompt: "a drawing of a man with a beard, in the style of contax t2,

 Krrrl, meticulous pointillism, john lowrie morrison,

 slumped/draped, damien hirst,

 shot on 70mm --ar 128:115 --v 6.0 - Remix (Strong)"

February 23, 2024 -- Portrait

prompt: "sketch, old man with glasses and tattoos,

 by tom honk, in the style of intricate psychedelic landscapes,

 minoan art, webcam photography,

 western zhou dynasty, burne-jones,

 linear patterns, ornate complexity --ar 65:59 --v 6.0"

Midjourney was resisting my style. And after all -- Style is Content.  I felt like I had a harder time getting something that I like now, versus last year.  That is why I used the "/describe" approach this time.