A blog related to original AI artworks. I make AI artworks using coined words and emoji as prompts.

When Learning Utamaro and “Negating” Ukiyo-e, AI Creates Three-Dimensional Beauties

Kitagawa Utamaro created numerous portraits of beauties, many of which are available online. Providing just Utamaro's name results in AI-generated artwork that resembles his style of beauty portraits. However, when I attempted to have AI create something other than beauty portraits, I provided “ukiyoe” as a negative prompt. To my surprise, it produced three-dimensional beauty-like images, quite different from Ukiyo-e.

Here are examples of artworks generated when Utamaro's name is provided directly to Stable Diffusion, such as the following.

While I think they are drawn reasonably well, they are not very interesting. So, to create more diverse images, I provided the word “ukiyo-e” as a negative prompt. The results were astonishing.

Finally, I'll provide one image with a different trend.