Let’s take a look at how to make a minimalist modern house in a desert oasis. There are lots of moving parts we have to control in this tutorial.

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Let’s begin with the first prompt.

Prompt: A modern house in the middle of a desert oasis

As usual, the prompt is simple and there list of lots of happy serendipity with the extra parts that MidJourney adds. Let’s add a couple more words. I also want this to be converted to vector graphics, so let’s do that now as well as convert it to 16:9.

Prompt: A modern house in the middle of a desert oasis, vector graphics, –ar 16:9

As usual, I am floored by what MidJourney can do. Vector graphics of buildings often give good results. I was going for a minimalist vibe. However, if you really wanted to you could start the variations process from these results. Let’s simply add the word minimalist at the end.

Prompt: A modern house in the middle of a desert oasis, vector graphics, minimalist –ar 16:9

These results are good, but it would be better if it was even more minimalist. From here we might have to wrangle with the words a bit.

Prompt: A modern house in the middle of a desert oasis, vector graphics, ultra minimalist –ar 16:9

The look I’m going for is really simple. Let’s add more to the prompt

Prompt: A modern house in the middle of a desert oasis, vector graphics, ultra minimalist, very simple, pictogram –ar 16:9

Let’s try adding high contrast to the image. This should make things simpler. Also, it feels like the palm trees are in the way. Let’s remove those.

Prompt: A modern house in the middle of a desert oasis, no trees, vector graphics, ultra minimalist, very simple, pictogram, high contrast –ar 16:9

One last modification. Let’s remove high contrast to just contrast. Also, the trees are still there? I guess, MidJourney didn’t remove them.

Prompt: A modern house in the middle of a desert oasis, no palm trees, vector graphics, ultra minimalist, very simple, pictogram, contrast –ar 16:9

Version 4 looks the best so let’s make 4 variations

Variations

I like version 1. Let’s upscale it and see what happens.

Here is the final result. As you can see we added a lot more to the image than was probably needed. If you were on a time crunch, you could have stopped before we got to the end here. I wanted something that was simple and more contrasty than some of the other versions above. I especially like the reflections in this image.