From a simple prompt to a more complex one - Forest

 I do quite a bit of research about how to optimize my prompts. One advice is: Begin simple and then add to the prompt. Here is an example:

The prompt I began with is:

A forest at night with a full moon shining through the trees, fantasy, watercolor in the style of Anne Stokes, --ar 3:2

The AI Art Generator Blue Willow gave me the following image:

Nice, but I did not like the naked trees, and I also could do without the water in the middle.

So I changed the prompt to:

A dark green forest at night with a full moon shining through the trees, watercolor in the style of Anne Stokes, intricate, hyperrealistic, high definition

As you can see, the water disappeared and we have some green trees standing on green grass.

Now I wanted to add something fantasy like. What about some lanterns showing the way?

So I changed the prompt to:

A dark green forest at night with a full moon shining through the trees, red lanterns, mossy rocks, digital painting, intricate, hyperrealistic, high definition, 4 K

Here is the result of this prompt:

As you can see, we now have mossy rocks and red lanterns standing on the dirt.

Of course we could still go on with making the prompt more complex: We could add a woman with a long robe for example. And here the order of the words in the prompt is important: Everything which stands at the beginning of the prompt is considered to be most important to the AI Art generator. So one could put it at the beginning of the prompt - or more in the middle of it. 

And when you're done with prompting it could be helpful to write down the prompts and the way the image was rendered. There's a lot of trial and error in prompt crafting, especially when you try several AI Art Generator! Have fun!