DALL.E 2, the text-to-image generative AI has trained on millions of labeled images to produce the user-required artwork. In order to get the most out of DALL.E 2, you must know how to query it.
Querying of DALL.E 2 or other generative AI models is known as prompting, which is a series of words written in human language.
To write a good prompt, you need to insert multiple modifiers. But, alternatively, you can bring out more from DALL.E 2 just by mentioning the artist’s names. To do so, you need to know the artist’s names that DALL.E 2 supports.
Unlike Stable Diffusion, DALL.E 2 has not revealed its complete training dataset. Hence, it is hard to know the artist’s style that DALL.E 2 is aware of. However, there are many successful AI artists out there on Twitter, Instagram, Lexica, and OpenArt are experimenting with artists’ names and styles on DALL.E 2.
In this article, I have curated the list of tested artists along with the style/ field they are famous for. However, this is not the official list released by DALL.E 2.
Why Is It Important to Know Artist Names?
To write the best prompts, it is important to know the artist’s names and/ or art styles over other art jargon. Just by mentioning the artists’ names, you can bring their color palettes, styles, art medium, patterns, etc.
An example prompt that leverages the artist name: GTA vice city in the style of Vincent van Gogh
The technique of inserting the artist’s names and/ or art styles facilitates the process of prompting.
Check out: List of artists supported by Stable Diffusion and Midjourney.
List of Artists Supported by DALL.E 2
Illustrators and Painters
- Alan Moore,Alternative / Indie
- Brian Jacques,Animal Fantasy
- James Gurney,Animal Fantasy
- Hirohiko Araki,Anime / Manga
- Junji Ito,Anime / Manga
- Osamu Tezuka,Anime / Manga
- Yusuke Murata,Japanese Anime
- Bisco Hatori,Japanese Anime
- Eiichiro Oda,Japanese Anime
- Hayao Miyazaki,Japanese Anime
- Hideaki Anno,Japanese Anime
- Hiro Mashima,Japanese Anime
- Kōhei Horikoshi,Japanese Anime
- Makoto Yukimura,Japanese Anime
- Masashi Kishimoto,Japanese Anime
- Satoshi Kon,Japanese Anime
- Rumiko Takahashi,Japanese Anime
- Yoshiyuki Tomino,Japanese Anime
- Akira Toriyama,Japanese Anime
- Katsuhiro Otomo,Japanese Anime
- Leiji Matsumoto,Japanese Anime
- Masamune Shirow,Japanese Anime
- Naoko Takeuchi,Japanese Anime
- CLAMP,Manga
- Akizuki Ryo,Manga
- Gosho Aoyama,Manga
- Yusei Matsuii,Manga
- Io Sakisaka,Manga
- Haruchi Furudate,Manga
- Coles Phillips,Illustrator
- Dean Cornwell,Illustrator
- Gil Elvgren,Illustrator
- Harrison Fisher,Illustrator
- J.C.Layendecker,Illustrator
- Jessie Willcox,Illustrator
- Norman Rockwell,Illustrator
- Rolf Armstrong,Illustrator
- Andrew Loomis,Illustrator
- Maurice Sendak,Children’s Book Illustrator
- Saint-Exupery,Children’s Book Illustrator
- Beatrix Potter,Children’s Book Illustrator
- Dr.Seuss,Children’s Book Illustrator
- Howard Pyle,Children’s Book Illustrator
- John Tenniel,Children’s Book Illustrator
- Aubrey Beardsley,Magazine and Paperback Illustrator
- Charles Dana Gibson,Magazine and Paperback Illustrator
- Elizabeth Shippen Green,Magazine and Paperback Illustrator
- Jack Davis,Magazine and Paperback Illustrator
- Carl Barks,Comics Illustration
- Jack Kirby,Comics Illustration
- Mike Mignola,Comics Illustration
- Neal Adams,Comic book artist
- Joe Shuster,Comic book artist
- Joe Kubert,Comic book artist
- Carmine Infantino,Comic book artist
- Curt Swan,Comic book artist
- Rich Buckler,Comic book artist
- AI Williamson,Comic book artist
- Alex Toth,Comic book artist
- Gene Colan,Comic book artist
- Gil Kane,Comic book artist
- Harvey Kurtzman,Comic book artist
- John Buscema,Comic book artist
- Stan Lee,Comic book artist
- Steve Ditko,Comic book artist
- Wally Wood,Comic book artist
- Will Eisner,Comic book artist
- John Romita Sr.,Comic book artist
- Scott McCloud,Comic book artist, modern
- Alex Ross,Comic book artist, modern
- Art Spiegelman,Comic book artist, modern
- Frank Miller,Comic book artist, modern
- Alex Raymond,Comic book artist, modern
- Charles M. Schulz,Comic book artist, modern
- Winsor McCay,Comic book artist, modern
- Bill Watterson,Comic book artist, modern
- Gary Larson,Comic book artist, modern
- H.r. Giger,Comic book artist, modern
- Tim White,Comic book artist, modern
- Jean Giraud,Comic book artist, modern
- Syd Mead,Comic book artist, modern
- Ed Emshwiller,Comic book artist, modern
- John Berkey,Comic book artist, modern
- Frank Kelly Freas,Comic book artist, modern
- Chesley Bonestell,Comic book artist, modern
- Ralph Mcquarrie,Comic book artist, modern
- Peter Elson,Comic book artist, modern
- N.C. Wyeth,Fantasy Illustration
- Arthur Rackham,Fantasy Illustration
- Frank Frazetta,Fantasy Illustration
- Michael Whelan,Fantasy Illustration
- Rodney Matthews,Fantasy Illustration
- Larry Elmore,Fantasy Illustration
- Alan Lee,Fantasy Illustration
- Bruce Pennington,Sci-Fi
- Chris Foss,Sci-Fi
- Franz Kline,Classical art, Abstract Expressionism
- Jackson Pollock,Classical art, Abstract Expressionism
- Lee Krasner,Classical art, Abstract Expressionism
- Mark Rothko,Classical art, Abstract Expressionism
- Barnett Newman,Classical art, Abstract Expressionism
- Hans Hofmann,Classical art, Abstract Expressionism
- Helen Frankenthaler,Classical art, Abstract Expressionism
- John Chamberlain,Classical art, Abstract Expressionism
- Willem De kooning,Classical art, Abstract Expressionism
- Lawrence-Alma-Tadema,Classical art, Academic Art
- Raja Ravi Varma,Classical art, Academic Art
- Frederic Leighton,Classical art, Academic Art
- Dante Gabriel,Classical art, Aestheticism
- James Whistler,Classical art, Aestheticism
- Anthony Van Dyck,Classical art, Antwerp School
- Jacob Jordaens,Classical art, Antwerp School
- Peter Paul Rubens,Classical art, Antwerp School
- Tamara de Lempicka,Classical art, Art Deco
- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec,Classical art, Art Nouveau
- Louis Comfort Tiffany,Classical art, Art Nouveau
- Charles Rennie Mackintosh,Classical art, Art Nouveau
- Hector Guimard,Classical art, Art Nouveau
- Gustav Klimt,Classical art, Art Nouveau
- Michelangelo Pistoletto,Classical art, Art Povera
- Edward Burne-Jones,Classical art, Arts and Crafts Movement
- William Morris,Classical art, Arts and Crafts Movement
- William Glackens,Classical art, Ashcan School
- George Bellows,Classical art, Ashcan School
- George Luks,Classical art, Ashcan School
- Robert Henri,Classical art, Ashcan School
- Ernest Zacharevic,Contemporary Art
- James Jean,Contemporary Art
- Jean-Michel Basquiat,Contemporary Art
- Keith Haring,Contemporary Art
- Brothers Hildebrandt,Fantasy Illustration
- Bruce Pennington,Fantasy Illustration
- Charles Vess,Fantasy Illustration
- Un Autre Monde 1844,Fantasy Illustration
- Patrick Nagel,Fashion
- Norman Rockwell,Genre Painter
- Edward Gorey,Horror
- Vincent van Gogh,Impressionism
- Bob Eggleton,Kaiju
- Frank Miller,Neo-Noir Comics
- Andy Warhol,Pop Art
- Tim Burton,Producer & Screenwriter
- William-Adolphe Bouguereau,Realism
- Leonardo da Vinci,Renaissance
- Jean-Honoré Fragonard,Rococo
- Chesley Bonestell,Sci-Fi
- Ed Emshwiller,Sci-Fi
- Frank Kelly Freas,Sci-Fi
- Jean Giraud,Sci-Fi
- Kilian Eng,Sci-Fi
- Larry Elmore,Sci-Fi
- Marc Simonetti,Sci-Fi
- Michael Whelan,Sci-Fi
- Robert McCall,Sci-Fi
- Stephan Martinière,Sci-Fi
- Syd Mead,Sci-Fi
- Banksy,Street Art
- Takashi Murakami,Superflat
- Jacek Yerka,Surrealism
- Salvador Dali,Surrealism
- Andrew Newell Wyeth,
- Caricature by J.J. Grandville, 1840,
- Currier and Ives,
- Edward Hopper,
- Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky,
- J.J. Grandville,
- John Berkey,
- John William Waterhouse,
- Kehinde Wiley,
- Leonetto Cappiello,
- Marjane Satrapi,
- R.L. Stine (Goosebumps 1985),
- Rosa Bonheur,
- Simon Stålenhag,
- Zdzisław Beksiński,
Digital/ 3D Artists
- Aiste Stancikait,Pencil Animation
- Alberto Seveso,Photographer
- Dan Mumford,
- David McLeod,CGI
- Erik Johansson,Surreal Photographer
- Hal Lasko,Pixel Art
- Jason Naylor,Typography
- Lisa Frank,
- Nik Ainley,Digital Illustrator
- Sara Ludy,
- Sean Charmatz,Animator
- Stephen Mcmennamy,Surreal Photographer
Photographers and Movie Directors
- Annie Leibovitz,Photographer
- David LaChapelle,Photographer
- David Lynch,Director
- Inez and Vinoodh,Art Duo
- Lee Jeffries,Photographer
- Mert and Marcus,Art Duo
- Nick Knight,Photographer
- Steven Klein,Photographer
Conclusion
It is not necessary to know all art jargon to write good prompts. All you need to know is how to use the artist’s name and steal prompt ideas from other artists.
You can ease the creation of prompts by using the free prompt generators that are available for DALL.E 2.