After over a month of daily posting about generative AI, I had over 30 individual lessons I had taken the time to create, produce illustrations for and a framework for sharing the first steps of prompting, so I decided to start compiling the best lessons and producing books (digital and print) that could be resources for the community of learners new to the A.I. space.

Since I had been calling my daily explorations – “A.I. Explore” – it made sense that this should be the name base for each book. Book 1 of the whole series was “A.I. Explore: Prompt Fundamentals”. Since its first release the end of September 2022 – it was revised in November ’22, and totally rewritten and released in June of 2023. In the first and revised versions released in 2022, the lessons include:

  • Getting Started
  • Anatomy of Midjourney
  1. Prompt Structure and Aspect Ratio
  2. Segment 3 of Prompts: Influence/Style
  3. Descriptive Text Prompts and Render Engine Styles
  4. Style Reference and Image Weights
  5. Media and Historic Illustrations
  6. Referenced Artists and Pen & Ink / Watercolor on Media
  7. Vehicles, 8K, Post Production, and Action
  8. Style, Line Drawings, and Quality
  9. Environments and Lego
  10. Simple Prompts and Small Changes
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The book was well received both in digital and print form, and earned great accolade from the AI community.