Disco Diffusion 70+ Artist Studies

by Harmeet | Feb 26, 2022 | Resources | 33 comments

This blog post is a collection of artist studies done using Disco Diffusion put together (sourced from Twitter) in one place to help you understand what kind of result you would get using a specific artists name.

If you are interested in checking out Disco Diffusion, then check out our earlier post on getting started with Disco Diffusion

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Artists

This list keeps growing, what started off as a great idea by the creators and contributors received lot of praise on social media so this list is updated regularly. Make sure you bookmark and share with fellow AI Artists.

Currently stands at 662 artists

Contributors

This study was done by several AI artists on Twitter. It was started by @proximasan and @sureailabs and contributed by @EErratica and @KyrickYoung. So if you are into AI Art – which I assume you are which is why you are reading this make sure you follow them on Twitter where they share their wonderful artworks.

Each of the images contains the creator name in the caption as its credit to them that this post is possible.

This post is based on the artists listed in this database created and maintained by the above contributors and can be viewed here. I only include artists that are Represented: Yes or Unsure and are artists not styles. If you are after styles then check out my other two posts: Anything punk and Disco Diffusion Modifiers (styles)

Prompts

For this study the contributors used two main prompts for the AI to generate a series of comparable images:

a beautiful painting of a waterlily pond by <artist name>, Trending on artstation.
a beautiful painting of a building in a serene landscape by <artist name>, Trending on artstation.

The prompt shows some wonderful results based on the artists style known to the model.

Updates

20th March 2022 – re-created the post, using some automation so I can speed up the adding of the artists.

6th April 2022 – added new sets of artists to the post.

20th April 2022 – added 98 new artists to the post

31st May 2022 – added 102 new artists to the post

Hilma af Klint

Ivan Aivazovsky

Yoshitaka Amano

Wes Anderson

Esao Andrews

Giuseppe Arcimboldo

John James Audubon

Francis Bacon

Karol Bak

Banksy

Jean-Michel Basquiat

Bauhaus

Beeple

Zdzislaw Beksinski

Zdzisław Beksiński

John Berkey

Albert Bierstadt

Ivan Bilibin

Alexander Bogen

Hieronymous Bosch

Johfra Bosschart

Sandro Botticelli

Noah Bradley

Gerald Brom

Jim Burns

Caravaggio

Thomas Cole

John Constable

Camille Corot

Walter Crane

Salvador Dalí

Geof Darrow

Eugene Delacroix

Paul Delvaux

Jean Delville

Vincent Di Fate

Edmund Dulac

Albrecht Dürer

Eyvind Earle

Bob Eggleton

Larry Elmore

Ed Emshwiller

M.C. Escher

John Philip Falter

Chris Foss

Lisa Frank

Caspar David Friedrich

H. R. (Hans Ruedi) Giger

Jean Giraud

Francisco Goya

Rebecca Guay

John Harris

Lawren Harris

Winslow Homer

Edward Hopper

John Howe

Alexander Jansson

James Jean

Frida Kahlo

Wassily Kandinsky

Felix-Kelly

John Frederick Kensett

Thomas Kinkade

Paul Klee

Gustav Klimt

Jeff Koons

Ilya Kuvshinov

Paul Lehr

Rene Magritte

Don Maitz

John Martin

Peter Max

Robert McCall

Ralph McQuarrie

Syd Mead

Frank Miller

Moebius

Mœbius

Chris Moore

Alphonse Mucha

Dan Mumford

Ted Nasmith

Victo Ngai

Rafal Olbinski

Raffeaello Ossola

Adam Paquette

Agnes Lawrence Pelton

Bruce Pennington

Jackson Pollock

Gediminas Pranckevicius

Robert Rauschenberg

Diego Rivera

Hubert Robert

Andreas Rocha

Norman Rockwell

Bob Ross

Egon Schiele

Ivan Shishkin

Marc Simonetti

Zack Snyder

Joaquín Sorolla

Simon Stalenhag

Tom Thomson

Ross Tran

J.M.W. Turner

Vincent Van Gogh

Rembrandt van Rijn

Esteban Vicente

Louis Wain

Ron Walotsky

Andy Warhol

Tim White

Liam Wong

Jacek Yerka

Yuumei

Amir Zand

Laurel Burch

Edgar Degas

Sonia Delaunay

Asher Brown Durand

Giovanni Battista Gaulli

Donato Giancola

John Atkinson Grimshaw

James Gurney

Jamie Hewlett

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Isaac Levitan

Claude Monet

Igor Morski

Victor Moscoso

Craig Mullins

Takashi Murakami

Marianne North

Nicholas Roerich

Ansel Adams

Jean Arp

Hans Baldung

Wayne Barlowe

John Bauer

Julie Bell

Hans Bellmer

Mary Blair

William Blake

Victor Brauner

Edward Burne-Jones

Gaston Bussière

Claude Cahun

Clyde Caldwell

Canaletto

Marcel Chagall

James C. Christensen

Mikalojus Konstantinas Ciurlionis

Giorgio de Chirico

Evelyn De Morgan

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Roger Dean

Lise Deharme

Óscar Domínguez

Gustave Doré

Tyler Edlin

Jesper Ejsing

Harold Elliott

Agustín Fernández

Hugh Ferriss

Anton Otto Fischer

Art Fitzpatrick

Jean-Honoré Fragonard

Victoria Francés

Frank Frazetta

Josan Gonzalez

Bastien Lecouffe-Deharme

George Luks

Victor Adame Minguez

Peter Mohrbacher

Ilya Repin

RHADS

Masamune Shirow

Raymond Swanland

Coby Whitmore

Ale- Grey

Katsushika Hokusai

Junji Ito

Mati Klarwein

Kazimir Malevich

Piet Mondrian

Lyubov Popova

Mark Rothko

Clovis Trouille

Diego Velázquez

Qian Xuan

Nele Zirnite

H.P. Lovecraft

George Lucas

Benoit B. Mandelbrot

Simon Bisley

Pascal Blanché

Arnold Böcklin

Camille-Pierre Pambu Bodo

Chesley Bonestell

Guido Borelli da Caluso

Hieronymus Bosch

William-Adolphe Bouguereau

Eleanor Vere Boyle

Arik Brauer

Pieter Bruegel the Elder

Paul Cézanne

João Artur da Silva

Leonardo da Vinci

Richard Dadd

Walt Disney

Jeff Easley

Max Ernst

Kelly Freas

Brian Froud

Wendy Froud

Ernst Fuchs

Henry Fuseli

Paul Gauguin

Emma Geary

Artemisia Gentileschi

Alberto Giacometti

Warwick Goble

Rob Gonsalves

Arshile Gorky

Jane Graverol

Peter Gric

Henriette Grindat

Matthias Grünewald

Thomas Häfner

Sydney Prior Hall

Keith Haring

Rudolf Hausner

Martin Johnson Heade

Brothers Hildebrandt

Tim Hildebrandt

Greg Hildebrandt

William Hogarth

Kati Horna

Valentine Hugo

George Inness

Jarosław Jaśnikowski

Joe Jusko

Filippino Lippi

Maria Sibylla Merian

Bob Ringwood

Jakub Rozalski

Jakub Różalski

Greg Rutkowski

Michael Whelan

Mike Winkelmann

Alena Aenami

Affandi

Leonid Afremov

Ivan Albright

Cuno Amiet

Charles Angrand

Artgerm

Frank Auerbach

Milton Avery

Max Beckmann

Émile Bernard

Charles Blackman

Marius Borgeaud

Bernard Buffet

Charles E. Burchfield

David Burliuk

Jack Butler Yeats

Ray Caesar

Marcel Chagall

Marcell Chagall

Marc Chagall

Yanjun Cheng

Pieter Claesz

Henri-Edmond Cross

Tivadar Csontváry Kosztka

Stuart Davis

Elaine de Kooning

Willem de Kooning

Beauford Delaney

Anna Dittmann

Otto Dix

Arthur Dove

Philippe Druillet

El Greco

Dean Ellis

Peter Elson

James Ensor

Lyonel Feininger

Virgil Finlay

Lucian Freud

Jack Gaughan

Milton Glaser

Natalia Goncharova

Edward Gorey

Carne Griffiths

Matt Groening

William Gropper

George Grosz

Philip Guston

Ernst Haeckel

Marsden Hartley

Erich Heckel

Patrick Heron

Miho Hirano

Howard Hodgkin

John Hoyland

Audrey Kawasaki

Rockwell Kent

Jack Kirby

Ayami Kojima

Oskar Kokoschka

Käthe Kollwitz

Leon Kossoff

Alfred Kubin

Yayoi Kusama

Raphael Lacoste

Wilfredo Lam

Heinrich Lefler

Edmund Leighton

J.C. Leyendecker

Roy Lichtenstein

Rob Liefeld

Dora Maar

August Macke

Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh

Lee Madgwick

Édouard Manet

Franz Marc

André Masson

Henri Matisse

Roberto Matta

Rodney Matthews

David B. Mattingly

Marco Mazzoni

Dave McKean

Kelly McKernan

Daniel Merriam

Jean Metzinger

Michaelangelo

Ian Miller

Joan Miro

Joan Miró

Paula Modersohn-Becker

Amedeo Modigliani

Sailor Moon

Gustave Moreau

Robert Motherwell

Gabriele Münter

Edvard Munch

Hiroshi Nagai

Alice Neel

Odd Nerdrum

Sidney Nolan

Emil Nolde

Earl Norem

Georgia O’Keeffe

Terry Oakes

Noriyoshi Ohrai

Méret Oppenheim

Keith Parkinson

Maxfield Parrish

Max Pechstein

John Perceval

Coles Phillips

Francis Picabia

Pablo Picasso

Anton Pieck

Bonnard Pierre

Yuri Ivanovich Pimenov

Robert Antoine Pinchon

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Camille Pissarro

Candido Portinari

Beatrix Potter

Arthur Rackham

Alice Rahon

Raphael

Man Ray

Odilon Redon

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Conrad Roset

Georges Rouault

Henri Rousseau

Luis Royo

Peter Paul Rubens

Mark Ryden

Kay Sage

John Singer Sargent

Martiros Saryan

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff

Charles Schulz

Franz Sedlacek

Maurice Sendak

Georges Seurat

Ben Shahn

Barclay Shaw

Cindy Sherman

Makoto Shinkai

Jeffrey Smith

Chaïm Soutine

Joseph Stella

Irma Stern

Anne Stokes

William Stout

Ken Sugimori

Rufino Tamayo

Yves Tanguay

Yves Tanguy

Henry Ossawa Tanner

Dorothea Tanning

Storm Thorgerson

Bridget Bate Tichenor

Louis Comfort Tiffany

Titian

Akira Toriyama

Boris Vallejo

Gustave Van de Woestijne

Frits Van den Berghe

Anthony van Dyck

Willem van Haecht

Jacob van Ruisdael

Remedios Varo

Viktor Vasnetsov

Kuno Veeber

Johannes Vermeer

Alexej von Jawlensky

Marianne von Werefkin

Mikhail Vrubel

John William Waterhouse

Jean-Antoine Watteau

George Frederic Watts

Max Weber

Edward Weston

James Abbott McNeill Whistler

Al Williamson

Franz Xaver Winterhalter

Bernie Wrightson

Andrew Wyeth

Takato Yamamoto

Arthur Adams

Hirohiko Araki

Shinji Aramaki

Diane Arbus

Tex Avery

Harriet Backer

Peter Bagge

Tom Bagshaw

Christopher Balaskas

Cicely Mary Barker

Carl Barks

Jules Bastien-Lepage

Aubrey Beardsley

Elsa Beskow

Enki Bilal

Quentin Blake

John Blanche

Don Bluth

Franklin Booth

Sam Bosma

Austin Briggs

Raymond Briggs

Patrick Brown

Bob Byerley

Zhichao Cai

Randolph Caldecott

Eddie Campbell

Pascale Campion

Annibale Carracci

Santiago Caruso

Harry Clarke

Richard Corben

Lovis Corinth

Joseph Cornell

Gustave Courbet

Craola

Robert Crumb

Krenz Cushart

Farel Dalrymple

Honoré Daumier

Jack Davis

Craig Davison

Walter Percy Day

Michael Deforge

Martin Deschambault

Brian Despain

Tony DiTerlizzi

Steve Ditko

Dave Dorman

Tim Doyle

Joseph Ducreux

Jason Edmiston

Kilian Eng

Elliott Erwitt

Anton Fadeev

Roberto Ferri

Howard Finster

Paul Gustave Fischer

Kaja Foglio

Phil Foglio

Hal Foster

Goro Fujita

Stephen Gammell

Anne Geddes

Jeremy Geddes

Justin Gerard

Atey Ghailan

Dave Gibbons

J. J. Grandville

Mab Graves

Kate Greenaway

Asaf Hanuka

Tomer Hanuka

Ryohei Hase

David Hockney

Hundertwasser

Jeffrey Catherine Jones

Chris LaBrooy

Frederick Lord Leighton

Laurie Lipton

Taiyō Matsumoto

Jean-Baptiste Monge

Sven Nordqvist

Beatrix Potter

Gerhard Richter

Apollonia Saintclair

Art Spiegelman

Ben Templesmith

Patrick Woodroffe

Fenghua Zhong

Zaha Hadid

Petros Afshar

Hiromu Arakawa

Grzegorz Domaradzki

Ueda Fumito

Rodel Gonzalez

Jordan Grimmer

Huang Guangjian

Nobuyoshi Araki

Karl Blossfeldt

William S Burroughs

Kaethe Butcher

Alexander Milne Calder

Mat Collishaw

Nicolas Delort

Stanley Donwood

Richard Doyle

Glen Fabry

Shepard Fairey

Joe Fenton

Paul Gustav Fischer

Dan Flavin

Thomas Gainsborough

Hope Gangloff

Laurie Greasley

Sir James Guthrie

Ryan Hewett

Hannah Hoch

Carl Holsoe

Aaron Horkey

Ralph Horsley

Friedensreich Regentag Dunkelbunt Hundertwasser

William Henry Hunt

Ismail Inceoglu

Bjarke Ingels

Shotaro Ishinomori

Ub Iwerks

Ruan Jia

Kim Jung Gi

M.W. Kaluta

Terada Katsuya

Hendrik Kerstens

Brian Kesinger

Adonna Khare

Tatsuro Kiuchi

Jon Klassen

Yves Klein

Heinrich Kley

Daniel Ridgway Knight

Nick Knight

Daniel Ridgway Knights

Satoshi Kon

Hugh Kretschmer

Kengo Kuma

Abigail Larson

Jeffrey T. Larson

Carl Larsson

Dorothy Lathrop

Edward Lear

André Leblanc

Alan Lee

Jim Lee

Jeff Lemire

Malcolm Liepke

Jeremy Lipking

Michal Lisowski

Cory Loftis

Travis Louie

Clive Madgwick

Jeremy Mann

Sally Mann

Chris Mars

Otto Marseus van Schrieck

Leiji Matsumoto

Todd McFarlane

Angus McKie

Ian McQue

Eddie Mendoza

Adolph Menzel

Mike Mignola

Russ Mills

Kentaro Miura

Kent Monkman

Alyssa Monks

William Morris

John Kenn Mortensen

Augustus Edwin Mulready

Gerhard Munthe

Go Nagai

Tibor Nagy

Helmut Newton

Dustin Nguyen

Kay Nielsen

Masaaki Sasamoto

Chiharu Shiota

Matti Suuronen

James Turrell

Kuang Hong

Graham Ingels

Lisa Keene

Prateep Kochabua

Jason Limon

William Logsdail

Antti Lovag

Johji Manabe

Takasaki Masaharu

shikki

Ruan Jian

Miles Johnston

Davis Marc

Sam Mayle

33 Comments

Jason on 3 March 2022 at 10:19 AM

Very cool. Thanks for sharing this. I use my own hacked version of Disco that works from the command line and have thrown together a quick shell script that can run any prompt on all of these artists. Already blown away by the results!

Cheers!
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Richard on 3 March 2022 at 11:24 AM

last two are from the same person? or is the second to last supposed to be h.r. giger?
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- Harmeet on 5 March 2022 at 2:18 PM
  
  last two are Zdzisław Beksiński
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jason on 6 March 2022 at 11:40 AM

These are great. Thank you! Can I just ask, Do you use a programe to make the pictures bigger while keeping the detail? I want to do a print (30 by 18 inches) But it looses a bit of detail, and just wanted to know if there is a way round this?

With my art, as soon as its done, i use ESRgain, then in photoshop use blow up 3, but still loses a bit of detail. Is there a programe you use for this? Or is this the best I will get it?
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- Harmeet on 6 March 2022 at 6:14 PM
  
  Thanks for your comments. I have used ESRGain in the past but its not as good as Topaz Gigapixel AI, which also uses machine learning to increase the size while preserving the details. I try out all the different models it has for the size I want and stick with the one that produces the correct details when upscaling
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Ethan on 14 March 2022 at 10:35 AM

Are these all done with standard out of the box settings?
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- Harmeet on 22 March 2022 at 8:00 PM
  
  Hi Ethan,
  Yes, except in some cases ViTL14 is activated in addition to default settings.
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  - Ethan on 5 April 2022 at 1:13 AM
    
    incredible, thank you so much for your work. I’ve gotten a lot of mileage out of it.
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    - Harmeet on 7 April 2022 at 9:58 PM
      
      Thanks to the contributors who continue to create more artist studies.
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Lorenzo on 26 March 2022 at 12:58 PM

This site is awasome!

I suggest:

Beatrix Potter… was an English writer and illustrator, she was best known for her children’s books
Édouard Riou… was a French illustrator 1833 – 1900
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- Lorenzo on 26 March 2022 at 1:08 PM
  
  This site is awasome!
  
  I suggest:
  
  Friedensreich Hundertwasser he was an Austrian visual artist and architect 1920-2000
  Beatrix Potter… she was an English writer and illustrator, she was best known for her children’s books
  Édouard Riou… he was a French illustrator 1833 – 1900
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- Harmeet on 7 April 2022 at 10:00 PM
  
  Thanks for the suggestions Lorenzo, the guys have taken note of these artists you suggest.
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Liviano on 29 March 2022 at 6:11 PM

Really helpful, thanks for sharing this.
I got a different result by setting on Rebecca Guay, more floating strokes and more transparencies. I probably set differently, maybe less Steps or a lower Clip_guidance_scale than yours, who knows.
I’m curious to see if you add any new artists, there are some I really like that are missing here? 😉
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- Harmeet on 7 April 2022 at 9:59 PM
  
  I will continue to add them to this post as the contributors continue creating more artist studies
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Ingo on 7 April 2022 at 12:11 AM

It would be great to have this without “Trending on Artstation”
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- Harmeet on 7 April 2022 at 9:57 PM
  
  You can always run your own prompt without it.
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Concerned artist on 8 April 2022 at 2:01 PM

This is a farce. That you’re all using the work of living artists to inspire use this tech is extremely harmful to those artists, and are encroaching onto their livelihoods. I could see MANY lawsuits on this, especially as this is done without their consent. Disgusting. Take this website down
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- Harmeet on 9 April 2022 at 9:41 AM
  
  Yes, by this standard all teaching art should also be banned and forbidden. Because when teaching art, we never got permission from Michaelangelo, Leonado, Van Gough etc.
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- AI Oracle on 13 April 2022 at 12:59 AM
  
  hahaha you are naive @Concerned artist
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ziwang on 11 April 2022 at 11:53 AM

Thank you very much. This article is very helpful. It saves me a lot of time looking for the right modifier.
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Hydropix on 12 April 2022 at 8:12 PM

Pascal Blanché is not present in LAION400, you should remove it for now. Because the image is not relevant.
https://rom1504.github.io/clip-retrieval/?back=https%3A%2F%2Fknn5.laion.ai&index=laion_400m&useMclip=false&query=by+Pascal+Blanch%C3%A9
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- Ethan on 22 April 2022 at 11:34 AM
  
  This is laion doofus
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  - Ethan on 22 April 2022 at 11:34 AM
    
    Isn’t
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    - Hydropix on 2 May 2022 at 8:21 PM
      
      There is an Eiffel Tower in the generated images, this is also the case on LAION400. This artist has never put an Eiffel Tower in these images. Moreover, the generated images do not correspond at all to the style of the artist. It is probable that other artists in this list have the same problem ?
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      - sureailabs on 5 May 2022 at 5:43 AM
        
        Many artists seem to have limited or dubious effect on the output. Many names produce their own quirks despite not representing the artist accurately at all. This is one such example – Pascal Blanché is not represented, but the outcome is noticeably different than the “control” prompts without his name. I think Harmett plans to post these here soon, for comparison.
Zenkali on 1 May 2022 at 2:37 PM

As two great contemporary artistst, I suggest:
Jonas Burgert
and
Glenn Brown.
Both have a very special ductus…
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- sureailabs on 5 May 2022 at 5:44 AM
  
  Added to the list – it may take a while to get to… We have a lot of artist names.
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Javi on 8 May 2022 at 6:37 AM

What parameters are you using: steps, cut_overview, cut_innercut, etc?

Would be great to publish a txt with all the parameters using in the experiment, because I’m getting quite different results with the same prompts.

Thank you in advance!
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Jokerminator on 15 May 2022 at 4:50 AM

Thank you very much! Very interesting.
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sureailabs on 16 May 2022 at 1:36 PM

A beautiful painting of the lost temple of the underwater world by ross tran and Mobius, Trending on artstation.”, “dreamy blue color scheme
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Yanqing Zhou on 4 June 2022 at 2:00 PM

I found some Manga/Movie/Game “Artists” that I pretty like.
HIDEAKI ANNO (for Evangelion)
Katsuhiro Otomo (for Akira)
Miyazaki Hidetaka (for Dark Souls)
Togashi Yoshihiro (for )
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blown away on 7 June 2022 at 12:51 PM

This is absolutely amazing, I’m blown away. The explosion of new creative potential this enables is unbelievable, styles and techniques lost to time and practiced by few alive can be generated, this means new art coming out that draws from almost the entirety of art history, just mind blowing to think about, there are often artists whose styles and aesthetics you love and admire but they are long gone and no one devotes the time to study and create art in their style – but AI can get you an amazingly good approximation its better than nothing and the results really speak for themselves here…

A few things I’ve noticed- artists that specialized in or often featured an element in the majority of their works will have it show up unprompted and morph the result, like Masamune Shirow, Chriss Foss, H.R. Giger, Simon Stalenhag, John Harris, Huge Ferris, Bouguereau, etc so this means that prompts more fitting to their niche in art (mechanical, spaceships, aliens/gothic, nudes, skyscrapers etc) will generate images that feel more like their works which is incredible

And another thing I noticed that’s really blowing my mind and needs further investigation Imo. With regards to Rob Gonsalves the AI seems to not only generate an image in his visual style but also utilizing his clever surrealist technique!! The snow in the distance turning to ice ponds which resemble the shape of water lilys. And in the other prompt there seems to be clouds in the distance which seamlessly shift to packed snow on the roofs of the building in the foreground – this resembles Gonsalves clever surrealist style and technique, so the AI can learn and copy and generate its own attempt at it surprisingly well, its remarkable.

I have a few artists suggestions I think would yield interesting varied results-

Étienne-Louis Boullée
Paul Chadeisson
Lawrence Alma-Tadema
Frederick Carl Frieseke
tokyogenso

Thanks
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Francis on 8 June 2022 at 5:38 AM

Is there a way to write the prompt to ensure it looks for the right artist? I tried with paleoartist John Conway, and can’t get Disco Diffusion to use the right references…
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