How does Stable Diffusion work?

Programs like Stable Diffusion let you create AI art just by typing in certain prompts.

I played around with it lately and even digged a little deeper into it by following some tutoriols on Youtube.

I also managed to get variations on image outputs that I used for gifs.

As you can see below I digged a lot into impressionists, because they're my favorite art style. You may find the ones the engine is already trained with here as "artists.csv"

At first I used the platforms open for everybody like https://huggingface.co/CompVis/stable-diffusion-v1-4? and https://labs.openai.com/

Then I got the oportunity to work with a version of Stable Diffusion installed on a PC. This gave me the oportunity to define more parameters. The more variations you get per prompt (f. e. getting outputs by different samplers for the same prompt) let's you get results you like in a more effective way.

_{#1 prompt: female young caucasian human looking at forest clearing view from behind in the style of renoir}

_{#2 prompt: a female caucasion women drinking coffee in a coffee shop in the anime style of Studio Ghibli}

_{#3 same prompt as #2}

_{#4 prompt: female young caucasian human looking at sunflower field view from behind in the style of renoir}

The four pictures above where the first ones I made. I liked the impressionists one's so much that I decided to go on with trying different impressionsts in the prompts.

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Unfortunately I don't have the exact prompts for the above images anymore. But I know I played around with this and replaced the impressionist artists:

painting art of a gorgeous young woman daydreaming, coy, shy, alluring, evocative, stunning, intricate, elegant, whole face, in the style of Delphin Enjolras, Elizabeth Shippen Green and Edward Burne-Jones

These were the artist's name I used:

• John William Waterhouse,
• Helen McNicoll,
• Gregory Frank Harris,
• Adélio Sarro
• Gregory Frank Harris
• Thanos Tsingos
• Panayiotis Tetsis
• Ron Hicks
• Richard Emil Miller
• Yuri Krotov
• William McGregor Paxton
• Francis Morton Johnson
• Childe Hassam
• Marc Chagall
• Eugène Grasset
• John Everett Millais
• Beata Beatrix
• William Holman Hunt
• Dante Gabriel Rossetti
• Edmond Aman-Jean

By using the example prompt above you get an image that is in the style of all of those three artists. If you'd like seperate results, one image by each of these artitst, I recommend using the script option, X type: prompt S/R and putting in the artists you like, separated by comma and space. The fully process is explained here aswell.

I made more images, even a small gif I am probably showing in an upcoming post. For now I would really like to hear your opinions about these images. I numbered them, so you may tell me, which ones you like.