I tried to make some ghosts for Halloween a few weeks ago. It appears that, as far as Midjourney is concerned, ghosts are people who have white sheets thrown over them. I thought that was a rather unimaginative interpretation so I updated my prompt to “three indistinct ghosts with skull faces rising out of a foggy forest,” plus a few other words.
The early results, while definitely not indistinct, were an improvement of sorts. They didn’t include white sheets but everyone was cloaked. And yes, the image below was one of the results for three ghosts. (There’s something about it that I really like — it’s a weird mix of old crones, Día de Muertos, and Little Red Riding Hood.)
I gave up and tried a more generic prompt, starting with “ghostcore, halloweencore.” I had no idea if either word actually existed outside my brain but I’ve learned that adding -core to regular words often works really well with AI. The image below was one of the results.
I went further with that prompt and ended up with a series of images similar to the one below. Which is interesting since, just this once, I did not use Día de Muertos in my prompt (although I did ask for a Mexican folk art influence).
Turns out that both ghostcore and halloweencore are words that others use. Furthermore, I read that ghostcore can be either dark and gloomy or light and fun. Midjourney obviously went with the latter interpretation, which totally works for me.