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

Carly AI
15 Nov 202309:48

TLDRCarly's tutorial introduces viewers to the art of creating vivid color schemes in AI-generated art. She explains three basic color styles—neon, vibrant, and vivid—and emphasizes using the term 'aesthetic' to guide the AI in color choices. Carly showcases eight different industry art aesthetics, each with four prompts for subjects like people, animals, backgrounds, and race cars. The aesthetics include acid pixie, bubble gum, glitch, glow wave, low poly, pixel scape, tropical, and vapor wave, each with its unique characteristics and color palettes. The tutorial is designed to inspire artists to experiment with color and achieve memorable compositions in their AI art.

Takeaways

  • 🎨 **Neon, Vibrant, and Vivid Aesthetics**: Using one-word color styles like 'neon,' 'vibrant,' or 'vivid' followed by 'aesthetic' in your prompt can help achieve vivid colors in AI art.
  • 🌈 **Neon Colors**: These are fluorescent hues that are bright and bold, often used to convey excitement or a cutting-edge style.
  • 🔥 **Vibrant Colors**: Highly saturated colors without the fluorescent glow of neon, used to create warmth and artistic richness.
  • 🌟 **Vivid Colors**: Refers to the purity and clarity of colors, encompassing a wide range of saturated and intense hues.
  • 🚗 **AI and Color Implication**: AI might use color to imply action and energy, especially with subjects like race cars.
  • 🌐 **Acid Pixie Aesthetic**: Emphasizes bright colors, psychedelic patterns, and otherworldly magic, often associated with the early 1990s rave culture.
  • 🍭 **Bubble Gum Aesthetic**: Captures light-hearted pop culture from the mid to late 20th century with a pastel color palette and a glossy finish.
  • 🔍 **Glitch Art**: Uses digital or analog errors for aesthetic purposes, including pixelation, color distortion, and fragmentation.
  • 🌊 **Glow Wave Aesthetic**: Combines 80s retro style with futuristic concepts, featuring neon glows, bright colors, and retrofuturistic themes.
  • 🏞️ **Low Poly Art**: Defined by geometric simplicity and a faceted appearance with vibrant colors, reminiscent of early 3D computer graphics.
  • 🎮 **PixelScape Aesthetic**: Blends pixel art with landscape imagery, featuring pixel grids and limited, yet vibrant, colors from early gaming systems.
  • 🌴 **Tropical Aesthetic**: Inspired by the vivid colors and textures of tropical environments, with a lively color palette and a sense of escapism.
  • 💨 **Vaporwave Aesthetic**: A collage of retro elements and cyberpunk influences with a pastel and neon glow, often featuring skewed proportions and perspectives.

Q & A

  • What is the main focus of Carly's tutorial?

    -The main focus of Carly's tutorial is to demonstrate how to prompt for vivid color schemes in AI art using different styles and providing examples of each.

  • How many basic color styles does Carly mention for achieving vivid colors in AI art?

    -Carly mentions three basic color styles for achieving vivid colors in AI art: neon, vibrant, and vivid.

  • What is the significance of using the word 'aesthetic' after the color name in a prompt?

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

  • What are the characteristics of neon colors in AI art as described by Carly?

    -Neon colors in AI art are described as fluorescent hues that are extraordinarily bright and bold, often used to create a sense of excitement, energy, or to imply a cutting-edge style.

  • How does the term 'Vivid' differ from 'Neon' and 'Vibrant' in the context of AI art color styles?

    -In the context of AI art color styles, 'Vivid' refers to both the purity and clarity of colors rather than just their brightness, encompassing a wide range of saturated and intense colors, including both neon and vibrant hues.

  • What is the 'acid pixie' aesthetic associated with?

    -The 'acid pixie' aesthetic is associated with bright colors, psychedelic patterns, a sense of otherworldly magic, and is often linked to the early 1990s rave culture and inspired by artists like Alex Gray and Robert Venosa.

  • What elements are commonly included in the 'bubble gum' aesthetic?

    -The 'bubble gum' aesthetic often includes a color palette dominated by pastel shades, particularly pinks, blues, and purples, and elements that evoke bubble gum pop culture, such as candy, balloons, and other sugary sweet icons.

  • How does the 'glitch' art aesthetic differ from other digital art forms?

    -The 'glitch' art aesthetic differs by intentionally using digital or analog errors for aesthetic purposes, which can include pixelation, color distortion, and fragmentation to create a distorted or surreal effect.

  • What are the visual characteristics of the 'low poly' art aesthetic?

    -The 'low poly' art aesthetic is characterized by geometric simplicity, a faceted appearance due to the limited number of polygons, vibrant colors, and a digital feel reminiscent of early 3D computer graphics.

  • What is the 'pixel scape' art aesthetic inspired by?

    -The 'pixel scape' art aesthetic is inspired by the visual language of early computer and console video games, which had limited pixels to represent environments due to hardware constraints, resulting in pixel grids and a limited but vibrant color palette.

  • How is the 'tropical' art aesthetic visually characterized?

    -The 'tropical' art aesthetic is visually characterized by a lively color palette consisting of saturated, sundrenched hues like turquoise, emerald, fuchsia, sunflower yellow, and tangerine, representing the vibrant energy and diversity of life found in tropical environments.

  • What are the key elements of the 'vapor wave' art aesthetic?

    -The 'vapor wave' art aesthetic includes a collage of retro elements and cyberpunk influences, a color palette dominated by pastels and a neon glow, and imagery that combines 80s and 90s advertising material, classical sculptures, tropical palm trees, and consumer electronics of the era, all with a dreamlike quality.

Outlines

00:00

🎨 Vivid Color Schemes in AI Art Tutorial

Carly introduces a tutorial on how to prompt AI for vivid color schemes in art. She plans to showcase 70 full-screen examples of various vivid color styles, providing insights into the amazing colors achievable with standard art industry aesthetics. Carly explains three basic color styles (neon, vibrant, and vivid) and emphasizes using the term 'aesthetic' after the color name in prompts to guide the AI's color choices without overwhelming the image. The video will demonstrate these color styles through eight different industry art aesthetics, using four basic subjects (persons, animals, backgrounds, and race cars) to illustrate the influence of styles on both organic and inorganic subjects. All images are produced using mid-Journey version 5.2.

05:01

🌈 Exploring Eight Vivid Color Aesthetics

The second paragraph delves into eight distinct art aesthetics that embrace vivid colors. Each aesthetic is characterized by its unique elements and color palettes: Acid Pixie with bright colors and psychedelic patterns; Bubble Gum featuring pastel shades and a nostalgic, playful spirit; Glitch art using digital errors for aesthetic purposes with pixelation and color distortion; Glow Wave combining neon visuals with retro and futuristic themes; Low Poly with a minimalist approach and faceted appearance; Pixel Scape blending pixel art with landscape imagery; Tropical inspired by the vibrant colors and textures of tropical environments; and Vapor Wave, a collage of retro and cyberpunk influences with a pastel and neon glow. The paragraph concludes with a thank you note for reviewing the vivid color strategies and an invitation for viewers to like the video if they found it insightful or entertaining.

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Keywords

💡Vivid Color Styles

Vivid Color Styles refer to the use of highly saturated and intense colors in art to create visually striking images. In the context of the video, these styles are employed to evoke a sense of excitement, energy, or to imply a cutting-edge style. The video showcases how AI can be prompted to generate art with such vivid color schemes, which is central to the theme of exploring the capabilities of AI in creating art with rich and dynamic colors.

💡Neon Color Style

Neon Color Style is characterized by fluorescent hues that are extraordinarily bright and bold. They are often associated with a sense of excitement or energy. In the video, the neon color style is one of the three basic color styles used in prompts to guide AI in creating art with vivid colors, as demonstrated by the phrase 'neon colors neon colors are, fluorescent Hues that are, extraordinarily bright and bold'.

💡Vibrant Color Style

Vibrant Color Style involves highly saturated colors without the fluorescent glow of neon. It is used to create a sense of warmth and depth in compositions. The term is significant in the video as it represents one of the ways AI can be directed to use color in art, as mentioned in the script: 'vibrant colors are, highly saturated colors but lack the, fluorescent glow of neon'.

💡Aesthetic

In the context of the video, Aesthetic refers to a set of principles or characteristics that guide the creation of art, particularly in relation to the use of color and style. The term is used to ensure that the AI focuses on influencing color choices rather than overwhelming the entire image with vivid colors, as illustrated by the instruction to follow a color name with the word 'aesthetic' in prompts.

💡Acid Pixie

Acid Pixie is a subculture aesthetic that emphasizes bright colors, psychedelic patterns, and a sense of otherworldly magic. It is associated with the early 1990s rave culture and is inspired by certain artists. In the video, the Acid Pixie aesthetic is one of the industry art styles that embrace vivid colors, particularly pink, purple, and green, contributing to the tutorial's exploration of vivid color schemes in AI art.

💡Bubble Gum

Bubble Gum is an aesthetic that captures the essence of light-hearted pop culture from the mid to late 20th century. It expresses optimism and a carefree spirit with a color palette dominated by pastel shades. The video uses the Bubble Gum aesthetic as an example of how AI can be prompted to create art with a nostalgic and whimsical color scheme.

💡Glitch Art

Glitch Art is a digital art form that intentionally uses errors for aesthetic purposes. It often includes pixelation, color distortion, and fragmentation to create a distorted or surreal effect. In the video, glitch art is presented as a style that can be used with AI to generate unique and visually interesting art pieces with vivid color applications.

💡Glow Wave

Glow Wave is an aesthetic 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 discusses how the Glow Wave aesthetic can be used in AI art to create images with vivid colors and a cyberpunk vibe.

💡Low Poly

Low Poly is an art aesthetic 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 a digital feel. The video explains how the Low Poly aesthetic can be used in AI art to create compositions with a mosaic of vibrant hues that are both realistic and fantastically chromatic.

💡Pixel Scape

Pixel Scape is an art aesthetic that blends pixel art with landscape imagery, reminiscent of the early days of digital rendering and early video games. It includes pixel grids, limited colors, and a nostalgic feel. The video demonstrates how AI can be used to create Pixel Scape art with vivid and limited color palettes, reflecting the constraints and styles of early gaming systems.

💡Tropical

Tropical is an art aesthetic that draws inspiration from the vivid colors, abundant textures, and organic shapes found in tropical environments. It is characterized by a lively color palette of saturated sundrenched hues. The video mentions the Tropical aesthetic as a way to capture the vibrant energy and diversity of life found in tropical nature through AI art.

💡Vapor Wave

Vapor Wave 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, a pastel-dominated color palette with neon glow, and imagery from the era. The video discusses Vapor Wave as an aesthetic that can be employed in AI art to create pieces with a dreamlike quality and a sense of escapism.

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, often used for warmth and artistic richness without a fluorescent glow.

Vivid colors refer to the purity and clarity of colors, encompassing a wide range of saturated and intense hues.

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 the essence of light-hearted pop culture from the mid to late 20th century.

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

Glow wave aesthetic combines 80s retro style with futuristic concepts, featuring neon glows and bright saturated colors.

Low poly art is defined by a minimalist approach with images composed of a reduced number of polygons.

Pixel scape art blends pixel art with landscape imagery, inspired by early digital rendering days.

Tropical art aesthetic is inspired by the vivid colors, textures, and organic shapes found in tropical environments.

Vapor wave is a visual and cultural movement with a collage of retro elements and cyberpunk influences.

The tutorial provides insights into how to prompt AI for specific color styles to enhance AI art compositions.

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