Let’s make something really cute in MidJourney today. Luckily this is really easy to do.

If you haven’t used MidJourney before, please go here to sign up and get started.

https://docs.midjourney.com/docs/quick-start

When you’ve finished that, go to the discord channel and go to the Newbies 50 channel

Let’s make our first prompt and see what MidJourney comes up with

Prompt: Cute fluffy penguin

Not bad for a first prompt. Let’s make this better. Let’s make this more of a cartoon penguin.

Prompt: Cute fluffy cartoon penguin, very detailed

This is getting closer to what I have in mind. Let’s have the penguin hold a fish.I added the word cute in front of fish because I thought it might need that level of clarity.

Prompt: Cute fluffy cartoon penguin, holding a cute fish, very detailed

Let’s add some more parameters. For whatever reason, this penguin was not as fluffy as the last one. Let’s also have the penguin look at the camera.

Prompt: Cute, very fluffy cartoon penguin, holding a cute fish, very detailed, looking at the camera

Now it’s time to add in the background. Let’s add an iceberg in the background as well as have the penguin stand on the ice. Let’s also use the word very detailed background as it will give a very nice background.

Prompt: Cute, very fluffy cartoon penguin, holding a cute fish, very detailed, looking at the camera, very detailed background, Iceberg in the background, Penguin standing on snow

This is starting to look good, but where did the fish go? I don’t know either. Let’s try this again with the 32k parameter as well as the –quality 5 parameter so that we get a good result.

Prompt: Cute, very fluffy cartoon penguin, holding a cute fish, very detailed, looking at the camera, very detailed background, Iceberg in the background, Penguin standing on snow, 32k, –quality 5

There’s one last thing we should add before we wrap this up. There is the option to make images look like film studios. I want it to look like a pixar movie. Let’s add it in.

Prompt: Cute, very fluffy cartoon penguin, holding a cute fish, very detailed, looking at the camera, very detailed background, Iceberg in the background, Penguin standing on snow, 32k, pixar, –quality 5

I think number 4 looks good. Let’s make 4 variations. Still no fish? I guess it got lost somewhere in the ether.

I think version 2 is the one we should upscale. Let’s upscale it and see what happens.

I think this turned out quite well. However, I’m not sure where the fish went. If I really cared about it I would go back and make sure it put it in there. Maybe MidJourney thinks this fish is a not good idea. Who knows. Either way, I’m happy with the result.