I'm going to start sharing more of my Nightcafe Studio work + prompts. Here's one from a few months ago with the SDXL 1.0 model. I also ran another generation this evening using the DreamShaper XL alpha2 model. Same prompt, but varying refiner settings. Prompt: full head and shoulders portrait, ultra detailed dark elven mage, character render, front view, symmetry, realistic, symmetrical design, front camera view, straight on camera, cg, unreal engine, octane render, fantasy, science fiction, cinematic lighting, intricate details Negative Prompt: ugly, tiling, poorly drawn hands, poorly drawn feet, poorly drawn face, out of frame, extra limbs, disfigured, deformed, body out of frame, blurry, bad anatomy, blurred, watermark, grainy, signature, cut off, draft SDXL settings: Initial Resolution: Medium Runtime: Short Seed: 355684708 Overall Prompt Weight: 100% Refiner Weight: 55% Sampling method: K_DPMPP_2M DreamShaper settings: Initial Resolution: Medium Runtime: Short Seed: 721990825 Overall Prompt Weight: 85% Refiner Weight: 5% Sampling method: K_DPMPP_2M First image: SDXL model Second image: DreamShaper XL alpha2 model First thing you'll notice is the first image, and some of the Dreamshaper ones, are not actually dark elves - I've found most of the models on every platform don't handle dark skin well unless you get REALLY specific in your prompt (or you're using an input image). So I added "dark ebony skin" to the prompt (see third image) and got this result out of DreamShaper. You can also add "purple skin" as is often depicted in Dark Elf art, or if you want to be accurate to the Drow from D&D, use jet-black or dark grey. (I don't use "Drow" in my prompts since WOTC is very protective of their trademarks...). Fourth image: added "dark gray skin and white hair" to the prompt in DreamShaper. Gray tones don't always work in most of the platforms, btw - I've found it a little difficult to get consistency here using only prompts. I'm going to take this one a bit further and try it out in Midjourney, Starry, and Leo tonight. I'll post my results in the replies.

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When I was a kid, heck even now, one of my favorite artists was Patrick Nigel. his beautiful women, crisp clean lines and bold shapes are awesome!! So I wanted to try my hand at seeing how close I could get to his images. Here is where I am at after a couple hours of testing..... I will update this as I get closer. I realize it is not like his style at this point, but I like where it is headed. Please play with this if you would like. I would love to see any prompts that I didn't think of. sexy woman, ((by artist Patrick Nigel)), minimalist print, grey and black colors with highlighted color as contrast to the image, hard edges, sharp lines, no shadows, illustrated style

Posted this on X as my GN post, and wanted to share here. Made with Midjourney V4 Dec 2022. Edited version in LuminarAI (2nd image), mostly just some color filters, bit of film grain, contrast boost, etc. cinematic wide shot of a northern rocky coast, gloomy and dramatic mood, dark and depressing, matte painting, fantasy painting, dramatic lighting, cinematic, photo realistic, unreal engine, epic sky, environment, HD --chaos 75 --uplight --v 4 Enjoy!

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