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  • ⭐️ to toggle them as favorited
  • 🌐 Bing search for the artist
  • πŸŽ¨πŸ§‘πŸžοΈ rotate between the 3 prompts
  • model switch between vanilla SDXL (A) and another model (B)

B: Model

  • Allows you to select a second XL model (B) to compare with the vanilla XL model from Stability (A). Switch between A and B by tapping the matching button on an artist.
  • These models were selected by me based on what I prefer. I have no relationship with these model makers.
  • DynaVision:
    • Makes cute faces, removes artifacts, saturates colors, while preserving artist style.
    • Makes cleaner and smoother images at the expense of grungier styles.
    • For landscapes, it reduces artist style strongly but improves composition.
    • Improves anatomy and leans towards NSFW. Proportions are somewhat cartoonish.
    • To remove the "big eyes" effect, use "anime" in the negative prompt.
  • Crystal Clear:
    • Adds detail and removes artifacts while while strongly preserving artist style.
    • Preserves styles even for landscapes and even for messy/grungy artists.
    • Makes faces more aesthetic, improves anatomy, and leans towards realism.

Permissive filter

  • checked: artists matching any checked tags
  • unchecked: artists matching all checked tags
  • useful for filtering your favorites

Hide low-use tags

  • checked: hides tags that match less than 4 artists, ~50% of all tags
  • you can access hidden tags via search, or if they're marked as important

Hide unknown to SDXL

  • I've hand verified that SDXL doesn't know these artists' styles
  • If you prompt with their names, the result will be unlike their actual style and generic, and you can achieve similar results by prompting "a painting", etc.
  • They're included in the database for the record of what SDXL doesn't know

Allow risquΓ©

  • Unchecking blurs all images that don't meet extremely conservative, G-rated, 100% SFW criteria. Note that the most risquΓ© this site gets is boobies. Even when allow risquΓ© is checked, I've censored all below-the-waist nudity as liability protection.

Important tags

  • Tap edit under the important category to add or remove tags

Why does the 🎨 prompt sometimes match the πŸ§‘ or 🏞️ prompt?

  • The prompt used for the 🎨 images is the intentionally generic, "an image". If that results in a portrait, that's useful to know. It indicates that, for that artist, SDXL is more strongly trained to output portraits. Anything in your prompt that's not related to a person will harder to prompt for in that artist's style.

✍️ Offline tag-editing mode

  • This features is only for editing tags offline. If you are viewing this from Hugging Face, any tag edits won't be applied, but they'll be saved. If you've downloaded the repository and are viewing your local file, tag edits are applied. In both cases, your edits will be available for export πŸ“₯ as text. If you want to suggest tag improvements for everyone's benefit, edit tags, copy the text from πŸ“₯, and post it as a comment to Hugging Face. I will incorporate accurate edits ASAP. Thank you for contributing!

Build a prompt

  • See πŸ“Έ prompts

Building prompts from artist styles

  • Build-a-prompt uses auto1111 syntax, and it creates a 3-section prompt:
  • (artist stuff:1.5), (an image:0.5), (your prompt words:1.0)
  • Options:
    • Intensity:
      • i.e. βœ–1, βœ–2, βœ–3, gives more weight to a style by repeating the artist's name. This works better than using prompt weighting
    • Mixing method:
      • Add: puts all the artists' names in the prompt separated by a comma. Usually the best choice. Try 'add' and 'loop' and see which works better.
      • Loop: uses a1111 syntax for alternating the prompt at each step. This alternates which artist's name appears in the prompt. If an artist's name is repeated, then it's repeat for multiple steps.
      • Swap: uses a1111 syntax to swap the prompt after a fraction of the total steps. This swaps the artist's name after 50% of steps by default. You can change this fraction. For example, [A:B:0.1] switches to B after 10% of all steps.
    • Move left and right:
      • tokens closest to the start of the prompt always have more influence. Therefore, moving an artist's name to the left adds weight to that style.

Why this prompting method?

  • The reason why build-a-prompt uses 3-sections is that it's very easy for common words in a prompt to erase an artist's style. For example, for some artists that never made any portraits, using the word "portrait" in your prompt can erase their style entirely.
  • To overcome this, we add weight to the artist stuff and to remove weight from the rest of the prompt. Built a prompt weights this at 1.5 and 1.0 respectively. This gives slightly more weight to the artist stuff. As you edit the rest of the promt, if the style disappears, adjust both numbers, e.g. try 2.0 and 0.5.
  • The middle section, "(an image:0.5)" doesn't change the output at all. However, it's sometimes needed when the weight of the rest of the prompt weight is less than 1.

An artist's style includes much more than their medium

  • Using an artists name influences the output in several ways beyond the medium, e.g. "painting style". It includes typical subject matter, colors palette, clothing and hairstyles of the artist's time, composition and layout, even specific faces of people, and other aesthetic choices.
  • It can be hard to get just the aesthetic style and not the other stuff, e.g. a renaissance painting style with modern clothing.
  • Sometimes you can strengthen just the artist's style by putting their medium in the prompt like this:
    • (watercolor in the style of artist full name:1.5), (an image:0.5), (content stuff:1.0)
  • This helps especially when the artist is famous for multiple mediums. But sometimes it reduces the artist's specific style and more matches the generic style of the medium.
  • Also try adding the opposite medium/style to the negative prompt. For example, if the artist you want is a photographer, try "painting, illustration" in the negative prompt.

Making non-photographic mediums look more photographic

  • It's worth trying "photograph by illustration artist" along with "illustration" in the negative prompt. But that often won't work.
  • It's also worth trying "[by artist A:style of photograph:0.5]". This will start with the artist style and switch to photograph style after 50% of the steps. Adjust the decimal as needed.
  • I've had best results by sending the output to img2img, then replacing the artist's name in the prompt with "photograph", and setting the de-noise very low. Then feed the result back to img2img, and slowly nudge it towards photographic. That will at least maintain the composition.
  • If Reference Controlnet for SDXL has been released, that should work well.

SDXL Artist Style Explorer

How to support this project

  • Please tell a friends or share on your socials
  • Suggest artists I should add or remove
  • Suggest features and report bugs
  • Leave all feedback on Huggingface

Workflow for these style images

  • All:
    Steps: 20, Sampler: DPM++ 2M Karras, CFG scale: 5, Seed: 47, Size: 1024x1024, Model hash: 31e35c80fc, Model: sd_xl_base_1.0, Version: v1.5.1, (refiner not used)
  • 🎨 prompt:
    (artwork in the style ofartist full name:1.5), (an image:1.5)
  • negative:
    edges, borders
  • πŸ§‘ prompt:
    (artwork in the style ofartist full name:1.5), (an image:0.5), (portrait of a person, inside a place:1.0)
  • negative:
    edges, borders, outside, about, the artist, themselves
  • 🏞️ prompt:
    (artwork in the style ofartist full name:1.5), (an image:0.5), (landscape, outdoor natural scenery, water, bridge:1.0)
  • negative:
    edges, borders, inside, people, person
  • exceptions:
    For most photographers, "artwork in the style of name" was replaced with "by name". Rarely, seed 48 was used.

Disclaimers

  • This tools is just for fun. This information may NOT be correct! The tags are mostly from manual input with a mix of other sources, some AI generated.
  • Remember, SDXL is only a crude imitation of these artists. Check out these artists' actual artwork for more inspiration!
  • This database has more straight white male artists than in the actual population. That's because they've been favored by art-collectors, past and present. Please suggest artists I should add.
  • My code doesn't use cookies and sends nothing to any server. But it's hosted on Huggingface, and I can't control if they cookie you
  • Open source. Creatives Commons license. Download for free.
  • I don't get nor do I want compensation for this. Getting thanks feels great!
  • I'm not affiliated with Stability AI
  • Use at your own risk. You're responsible for your own actions.

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