AI Art Tutorial | Vivid Color Styles | Midjourney v5.2

Carly AI
15 Nov 202309:48

TLDRCarly's tutorial on achieving vivid color schemes in AI art introduces viewers to three basic color styles: neon, vibrant, and vivid. She explains that using these styles in prompts, followed by the word 'aesthetic,' will guide the AI to influence color choices without overwhelming the image. The video showcases eight art aesthetics, each with four prompts for subjects like people, animals, backgrounds, and race cars. Styles featured include Acid Pixie, Bubble Gum, Glitch, Glow Wave, Low Poly, Pixel Scape, Tropical, and Vapor Wave, each with their unique color palettes and visual elements. The tutorial is designed to inspire artists to create visually striking and memorable AI art.

Takeaways

  • 🎨 **Neon, Vibrant, and Vivid Aesthetics**: The video discusses three basic color styles (neon, vibrant, and vivid) and emphasizes using the term 'aesthetic' after the color name for better AI interpretation.
  • 🌈 **Color Influence**: Using a one-word color style in the prompt ensures the AI focuses on color choices without overwhelming the entire image.
  • 🚀 **Neon Colors**: Described as fluorescent hues that are bright and bold, often used to convey excitement or a cutting-edge style.
  • 🔥 **Vibrant Colors**: Highly saturated colors without the neon glow, used to create warmth and depth in compositions.
  • 🌟 **Vivid Colors**: Refers to the purity and clarity of colors, including both neon and vibrant hues, used for visually striking images.
  • 🧙‍♀️ **Acid Pixie Aesthetic**: A subculture style with bright colors, psychedelic patterns, and otherworldly magic, often associated with the early 1990s rave culture.
  • 🍭 **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.
  • 🔍 **Glitch Art**: Utilizes digital or analog errors for aesthetic purposes, featuring pixelation, color distortion, and fragmentation effects.
  • 🌊 **Glow Wave Aesthetic**: Combines 80s retro style with futuristic concepts, characterized by neon glows, bright colors, and a cyberpunk vibe.
  • 🏞️ **Low Poly Art**: Defined by geometric simplicity and a faceted appearance, using a reduced number of polygons to create a digital, mosaic-like effect.
  • 🎮 **PixelScape Aesthetic**: Blends pixel art with landscape imagery, inspired by early video games with limited pixel representation and vibrant colors.
  • 🌺 **Tropical Aesthetic**: Inspired by the vivid colors and textures of tropical environments, featuring a lively color palette for a sense of escapism and adventure.
  • 💿 **Vaporwave Aesthetic**: A collage of retro elements and cyberpunk influences, dominated by pastels and neon glow, often with skewed proportions and perspectives.
  • 📈 **AI Art Evolution**: The video showcases how AI, specifically Midjourney v5.2, can be prompted to create art with various vivid color schemes and styles.

Q & A

  • What are the three basic color styles mentioned in the tutorial for achieving vivid colors in AI art?

    -The three basic color styles mentioned are neon, vibrant, and vivid.

  • How does using the term 'aesthetic' in the prompt influence the AI's color choices?

    -Using the term 'aesthetic' in the prompt helps ensure that the AI influences color choices without overwhelming the entire image with vivid colors.

  • What is the main characteristic that distinguishes neon colors from vibrant colors?

    -Neon colors are fluorescent hues that are extraordinarily bright and bold, often with a glowing effect, while vibrant colors are highly saturated but lack the fluorescent glow.

  • How does the term 'Vivid' in the context of color styles relate to the colors used?

    -In the context of color styles, 'Vivid' refers to both the purity and clarity of colors, rather than just their brightness.

  • What are some examples of industry art aesthetics and styles that embrace vivid colors?

    -Examples include acid pixie, bubble gum, glitch, glow wave, low poly, pixel scape, tropical, and vapor wave.

  • What is the acid pixie aesthetic associated with, and what are its common elements?

    -The acid pixie aesthetic is associated with bright colors, psychedelic patterns, and a sense of otherworldly magic, often linked to the early 1990s rave culture. Common elements include neon or bright colors, especially pink, purple, and green, and otherworldly imagery like mushrooms, fairies, and magical creatures.

  • How does the bubble gum aesthetic differ from the acid pixie aesthetic in terms of its visual style and attitude?

    -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 and an attitude expressing optimism and a carefree spirit, contrasting with the psychedelic and otherworldly elements of the acid pixie aesthetic.

  • What are the visual characteristics of glitch art?

    -Glitch art is characterized by pixelation, color distortion, and fragmentation. It intentionally creates a distorted or choppy effect, often with shifted or changed colors, and may involve separating the original image into different pieces to create a new composition.

  • What elements are commonly included in the glow wave aesthetic?

    -The glow wave aesthetic includes neon glows, bright saturated colors, retrofuturistic themes, synth wave or vapor wave inspired elements, holographic and digital motifs, dreamlike ethereal qualities, and cityscapes and landscapes with a cyberpunk vibe.

  • How is the low poly art aesthetic characterized in terms of its visual appearance?

    -The low poly art aesthetic is characterized by geometric simplicity, a faceted appearance due to the limited number of polygons, vibrant colors with each polygonal facet potentially being a different color, and an expressly digital feel reminiscent of early 3D computer graphics.

  • What are the key features of the pixel scape art aesthetic?

    -The pixel scape art aesthetic features pixel grids, where each pixel detail is rendered as part of a grid with larger square pixels as the basic unit of visual composition, and a limited color palette that is often more vibrant, drawing inspiration from early computer and console video games.

  • How does the tropical art aesthetic capture the essence of tropical environments?

    -The tropical art aesthetic captures the essence of tropical environments through a lively color palette consisting of saturated, sundrenched hues like turquoise, emerald, fuchsia, sunflower yellow, and tangerine, representing the radiant colors found in tropical flora and ocean reefs, and providing a sense of escapism, adventure, vibrancy, and playfulness.

  • What are the dominant colors and imagery commonly found in vapor wave art?

    -Vapor wave art is dominated by pastels and a neon glow, commonly employing pinks, purples, and teals. Imagery may include a mix of 80s and 90s advertising material, classical sculptures, tropical palm trees, and consumer electronics of the era, often with skewed proportions and perspectives, giving it a dreamlike quality.

Outlines

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🎨 Vivid Color Schemes in AI Art Tutorial

Carly introduces a tutorial on how to prompt AI for vivid color schemes in art, showcasing 70 full-screen examples across various styles. She explains three basic color styles: neon, vibrant, and vivid, each producing different effects on images. The tutorial covers eight industry art aesthetics and styles that embrace vivid colors, using four basic prompts for each to illustrate the impact on organic and inorganic subjects. The video also includes examples of AI-generated images using these styles, all created with mid-Journey version 5.2.

05:01

🌈 Exploring Aesthetics with Vivid Colors

The second paragraph delves into six specific art aesthetics that utilize vivid colors to create unique visual experiences. These include the acid pixie aesthetic with its bright colors and psychedelic patterns, the bubble gum aesthetic that captures light-hearted pop culture, glitch art that intentionally uses digital errors for visual effects, glow wave with its neon-drenched visuals and retro-futuristic themes, low poly with its minimalist geometric simplicity and vibrant colors, pixel scape that blends pixel art with landscape imagery, the tropical aesthetic inspired by the rich colors of tropical environments, and vapor wave that combines retro elements with cyberpunk influences. Each aesthetic is characterized by its own color palette and visual elements, contributing to a diverse and vibrant collection of styles.

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Keywords

💡Vivid Color Schemes

Vivid color schemes refer to the use of bright, saturated, and intense colors in artwork to create a striking visual impact. In the context of the video, these color schemes are achieved through AI art by utilizing specific prompts that guide the AI towards generating images with a strong sense of color. The video showcases how vivid colors can be applied to various art styles to produce memorable and energetic compositions.

💡Neon

Neon colors are described as fluorescent hues that are extraordinarily bright and bold. They are often associated with a sense of excitement, energy, or a cutting-edge style. In the video, the neon color style is one of the three basic color styles used in prompts to influence the AI's color choices, creating images with a vibrant and futuristic feel.

💡Vibrant

Vibrant colors are highly saturated but do not possess the fluorescent glow of neon colors. They are used to evoke a sense of warmth and richness in compositions. The term is key in the video as it represents one of the color styles that can be prompted to the AI, resulting in images with deep and artistically rich color palettes.

💡Aesthetic

An aesthetic in the context of the video refers to a particular style or approach to the visual presentation of AI-generated art. The use of 'aesthetic' following a color name in a prompt helps the AI focus on color choices rather than saturating the entire image with that color. Aesthetics mentioned in the video include neon, vibrant, and vivid, each influencing the AI's output differently.

💡Industry Art Aesthetics

Industry art aesthetics refer to specific styles within the art industry that are characterized by their unique visual elements and themes. The video presents eight different industry art aesthetics, each with its own approach to using vivid colors. These aesthetics include Acid Pixie, Bubble Gum, Glitch, Glow Wave, Low Poly, Pixel Scape, Tropical, and Vapor Wave, all demonstrated through examples within the video.

💡Acid Pixie

The Acid Pixie aesthetic is a subculture that emphasizes bright colors, psychedelic patterns, and a sense of otherworldly magic. It is often associated with the early 1990s rave culture and is inspired by artists like Alex Gray and Robert Venosa. The aesthetic in the video is demonstrated through the use of neon or bright colors, especially pink, purple, and green, and includes whimsical and magical elements.

💡Bubble Gum

The Bubble Gum aesthetic captures the essence of light-hearted pop culture from the mid to late 20th century. It's not just a visual style but also an attitude that expresses optimism and a carefree spirit. The video describes this aesthetic as often including a color palette dominated by pastel shades, particularly pinks, blues, and purples, and elements that evoke candy, balloons, and other sugary sweet icons.

💡Glitch Art

Glitch art is a type of digital art that intentionally uses errors, such as those caused by software bugs or hardware failures, for aesthetic purposes. The video mentions pixelation, color distortion, and fragmentation as common visual elements in glitch art. These effects create a distorted or choppy appearance and are often psychedelic or surreal in nature.

💡Glow Wave

The Glow Wave aesthetic is characterized by vibrant, neon-drenched visuals that combine elements of 80s retro style with futuristic concepts. It is part of a broader category of aesthetics that play with bright glowing colors and a sense of advanced technology through a nostalgic lens. The video showcases this aesthetic as including neon glows, bright saturated colors, retrofuturistic themes, and a cyberpunk vibe.

💡Low Poly

The Low Poly art aesthetic is defined by a minimalist approach where images are composed of a reduced number of polygons. This results in geometric simplicity, a faceted appearance, and vibrant colors. The video describes how each polygonal facet can be a different color, creating a mosaic of hues that can be both realistic and fantastically chromatic, with an expressly digital feel.

💡Pixel Scape

The Pixel Scape art aesthetic is a creative style that blends pixel art with landscape imagery. It represents the early days of digital rendering, creating scenes that feel nostalgic. The video notes that this aesthetic often includes pixel grids, limited colors reminiscent of early gaming systems, and a vibrant color palette that reflects the restricted yet intense colors of those early systems.

Highlights

Carly provides a tutorial on prompting for vivid color schemes in AI art.

70 full-screen examples of several vivid color styles are showcased.

Three basic color styles are introduced: neon, vibrant, and vivid.

Using 'aesthetic' after a color name in prompts helps refine AI's color choices.

Neon colors are described as fluorescent hues used for excitement or a cutting-edge style.

Vibrant colors are highly saturated but lack the fluorescent glow of neon, creating warmth and depth.

Vivid colors are characterized by purity and clarity, not just brightness.

Eight industry art aesthetics and styles that embrace vivid colors are presented.

The acid pixie aesthetic is associated with bright colors and a sense of otherworldly magic.

Bubble gum aesthetic captures light-hearted pop culture with a nostalgic and optimistic attitude.

Glitch art uses digital or analog errors for aesthetic purposes, creating distorted or choppy effects.

Glow wave aesthetic combines neon-drenched visuals with retro style and futuristic concepts.

Low poly art is minimalist, composed of a reduced number of polygons and vibrant colors.

Pixel scape art blends pixel art with landscape imagery, evoking nostalgia for early digital rendering.

Tropical art aesthetic is inspired by the vivid colors and organic shapes of tropical environments.

Vapor wave art is a collage of retro elements and cyberpunk influences with a pastel and neon glow.

All images in the video are produced using Midjourney version 5.2.

The tutorial aims to help viewers achieve the vivid color schemes they design in their AI art.