Dark Beast: Craft an eerie ink story with this Midjourney prompt
#Promptshare: Crafting eerie visual narratives with AI
#Promptshare: Crafting eerie visual narratives with AI Art
AI Art continues its march across the creative world. You can generate awesome original images using prompts, opening up new art possibilities. Midjourney is the leading AI Art generator and an amazing tool.
Today, I will share a base prompt with a detailed style and atmosphere, and work slight variations in order to create a short story, utilizing a chilling, forest-dwelling beast as the central narrative thread, guiding you through the process of constructing a cohesive, spine-tingling story through a series of meticulously crafted Midjourney prompts.
The Base Prompt: Laying the Groundwork
The foundational prompt sets the stage for our eerie tale, establishing the overarching visual aesthetic and mood:
the comic, [description of the scene], Glow in the dark color scheme, dark blue and amber tones, Documentary style realism, High saturation, Underground manga, Sublime ink application, Ultra HD images, illustrations, manga style, Black Outline, Dark and scary atmosphere, 8K resolution, Junji lTO style, Chinese Punk, thick strokes — ar 16:9 — v 6.0
This intricate prompt weaves together an array of stylistic elements, from the glow-in-the-dark color palette to the high-contrast, inky strokes reminiscent of underground manga and the unsettling works of Junji Ito. The amalgamation of these elements sets the stage for a narrative that blends documentary-style realism with a haunting, otherworldly ambiance.
The Story
The following are the descriptions of the scene used, in order to tell a story:
A man walking across the desolate forest at night, frontal view
Close up of the face of a worried man walking across the desolate forest at night, frontal view, close-up
A black beast’s foot with yellow runes on it, frontal view, close-up
Macro close up of the glowing eyes of a dark beast in the woods, eerie glow, frontal view
Close up of the black beast, frontal view, close-up 6. dynamic action of a beast attacking a man in the forest at night, frontal view, close-up
Beast howling under the full yellow moon, frontal view, close-up
Add a few voiceovers, and you can get a short eerie animated story:
Nice!
With a base prompt that sets the stage for a dark and mysterious tale, we explored how to weave together elements of horror, suspense, and intrigue to captivate readers and plunge them into the heart of a haunting experience.
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