This is a coaching group developed especially for Visual Narrative Artists that desire to use Midjourney as their main tool for creating sequential artwork.

• Are you curious about how Midjourney could create the artwork for a complete Visual Narrative?
• Have you hit limitations with using Midjourney to try and do this?
• Are you figuring out how to generate consistent artwork for a story?

In this coaching group, we are going to show you an in-depth guide to Midjourney for sequential art generation so that you can…

1. Overcome guesswork at trying to create consistent visual elements for your story (characters, locations, props)

2. Plan ahead with a “visual database”

3. Work together and learn how to get fairly consistent “shots” or camera angles of your subjects

4. Study on how to overcome problems with Midjourney “muddling” your text prompt descriptions between different characters or other elements

5. Solving hand and finger problems (that Midjourney still struggles with)

6. Combine Midjourney with ChatGPT to assist in developing and writing visual narratives.

We are going to show you how to create a visual story with Midjourney even if…

1. You’ve never created a story before with digital art tools

2. You feel lost with all of the parameters that Midjourney comes with

3. You’ve felt frustrated with getting inconsistent results with Midjourney.

What’s Included?

• Eight weeks of 1.5 hour live webinar lessons (see curriculum below)
• Class assignment and reviews during the lessons
• A private forum to continue learning, connecting and sharing in-between sessions
• A VIP level of this coaching group if you wish to go further into depth and gain extra resources.

When does this start?

The live classes will start at the beginning of June 2023.

What you’ll need for this class

Basic or standard membership for Midjourney (even if it’s just for 2 months!)

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Curriculum

Week 1 : The Setup

“Creating a Visual Database of ‘Reference Anchors'”

• Setting up and using Midjourney
• Setting up a “visual database” for your story
  • Choosing and using reference images
  • Midjourney “anchor” images
  • Keyword recordings
  • Seed number recordings
• Consistent styling
  • Artist name keywords and vital tips in using these
  • Medium (digital, traditional) keyword/phrases : Ten Effective Examples
  • Why multiple visual examples of a medium are important
  • Avoiding AI noise in the styling
• Colour Sets and Lighting styles
• Creating references anchors for… Characters, Clothing, Locations, Props
• Considering aspect ratios for the artwork
• Training AI with our own references – can it be done?

Week 2 : The Characters

“Consistent Character Attributes in Depth”

• Review of consistent character generation methods
• Deeper tips on consistent character attributes
  • Age
  • Hair : Styling and Colour
  • Eyes
  • Skin
  • Head shape and neck
  • Full body shape
• Consistent clothing in depth : Case studies on consistent clothing
• Solving hand and finger problems
  • Holding props
  • Hand expressions
• Character actions : Getting a character “out” of a portrait shot to act!

Week 3 : The Locations & Props

“Influencing Environments and Consistent Prop Building”

• Interiors
• Exteriors and Weather
• Success in gaining different shots of the same location
• Using visual cues despite variations
• Thinking out of the box : Case studies on “out of this world” locations
• Consistent prop visualisation

Week 4 : The Camera

“Shot Phrases that work (and don’t work)”

• Shot types : in-depth case studies for Midjourney
  • Wide
  • Full : Overcoming full body shot problems
  • Medium
  • Close up
  • Angle shots = High, Low, Dutch, Worms eye
  • Character Shot Case Studies : one, two and three shot character setups
• Space for speech bubbles
  • Forcing space in the existing frame
  • Flexible outpainting for creating additional space 

Week 5 : Overcoming Midjourney Muddles

Dealing with Multiple Characters and Elements in a Midjourney Render

• Using specific weighting to overcome muddles
• Character interaction case studies
• Character-in-relation-to-prop case studies
• Character-in-relation-to-environment case studies
• Technique : Compositing single character renders
• Technique : Extending frame size with DALL-E
• Dealing with large numbers of visual elements or crowd scenes

Week 6 : Midjourney with ChatGPT #1

Story writing with ChatGPT

• Use ChatGPT to generate story elements and text for a Visual Narrative
• Define the story template for ChatGPT
• Feed a story writing “job description” to ChatGPT
• Build a story outline with ChatGPT consisting of the chapters
• Use iteration to improve the outline.
• Write the chapters in detail
• Use iteration to improve the writing of each chapter

Week 7 : Midjourney with ChatGPT #2

Case study : Illustrating a public domain book with Midjourney

• Helping ChatGPT to identify potential key scenes and actions for illustration
• Prospecting for book cover options
• ChatGPT scene list analysis and prompt generation
• ChatGPT character list analysis and prompt generation
• ChatGPT prop list analysis and prompt generation

Week 8 : Styling and Layout

“Postwork Fixing and Styling : Get guaranteed consistent styling across your renders”

• Rapid assembly of a graphic novel or comic
• Tips and tricks on using Comic Life 3
• Pro tips for dealing with artefacts (even at layout stage)
• Consistent Styling : Five styling examples