N(Ai)ggy – Stable Diffusion Test 2

For the life of me, I cannot get Stable Diffusion to put an eyepatch on a parrot.

It’s fun to mess around, but it’s also frustrating! The upside is that it forces me to approach the problem from different angles, stretch my creative prompting skills, and deepen my understanding of how the model interprets descriptive language. For my second N(Ai)ggy test, I tried a different prompt, but instead of using a ‘parrot’ I am using the descriptive phrase of ‘a cute small green bird with a blunt nose and a curved beak’. Most of what I got was at least parrot-esque, or parrot-adjacent.

As for the eyepatch, I wondered if I could get a bird to wear something else and work my way toward what I really want. I went with a ‘red bowtie’ this time. Maybe, similar to my approach to the ‘cute small green bird’ vs. ‘parrot’ description, I should try something like ‘a strap worn on the head that has a flap covering one eye’.

I want to improve my prompting skills around getting the subject to do actions too, so I went with ‘reading a map’ this time. Although it’s a stretch to say he is holding a map in most of the renderings, he is most definitely reading something.

For flavor, the stylistic keyword cues I used this time included: ‘picasso’, ‘pixar’, ‘high renaissance’, and ‘4k’, (and for some extra fun, ‘warhammer 40k’).

All together, a very fun iteration, with some hilarious results!

Enjoy! (Naggy, “EN-joy?!”).