5 Best Midjourney Prompts: November 2023 (Subjectless Edition)

Here are this month's Midjourney prompt ideas.

Nov 23, 2023

Happy Thursday!

Today’s my birthday.

**Waits for the overpowering celebratory cheers and applause to die down**

This year, it happens to coincide with Thanksgiving, and I expect many of you will have families to see and turkeys to eat.

So instead of deep-diving into a new topic, I’m releasing the November Midjourney prompt list.

Today, I’ll focus on subjectless prompts that work great when combined with nothing but colors, shapes, materials, and so on.

(You can easily add a subject if you wish, often with phenomenal results.)

Have at it!

Note: All sample images are Midjourney Version 5.2.

Prompt #1: Design your next smartphone cover

Do you like picking out fancy covers for your phone? Get some inspiration here.

Midjourney prompt:

[material / color / shape] texture

What it does:

What you’d expect. It creates a textured pattern that reflects the chosen material, color, and shape.

Sample images:

Pink leather, shiny steel, red plastic zigzags textures — Pink leather, shiny steel, red plastic zigzags

Prompt #2: Go colorfully abstract

This is great for abstract imagery.

Midjourney prompt:

color field painting, [colors / shapes]

What it does:

Color field paintings are usually made up of a few unbroken dominant colors, where the colors themselves are the main subject of the image.

Sample images:

Green and blue, blue and black triangle, teal and orange

Prompt #3: Play with trippy illusions

Step into the world of mind-bending visuals.

Midjourney prompt:

[colors / shapes] op art

What it does:

Op art (short for “optical art” and very much not “pop art”) is characterized by artworks that create an illusion of movement, warping patterns, and the like. Classic op art is black and white, but you can easily experiment with colors.

Sample images:

Red and brown dots, white and grey checkered, yellow and purple

Prompt #4: Find a cool new backdrop

Need some fun backgrounds? Just ask.

Midjourney prompt:

[colors / shapes] geometric background

What it does:

This prompt tends to create neat patterns containing the chosen colors and shapes. You can use these as image backdrops or wallpaper for your desktop.

Sample images:

Teal and brown, triangles, blue squares, red dots — Teal and brown triangles, blue squares, red dots

Prompt #5: Give your desktop a refresh

And speaking of desktop wallpapers…

Midjourney prompt:

[colors / shapes] desktop wallpaper

What it does:

Midjourney must have plenty of desktop wallpapers in its training, so it’s great at using the term to create patterns that work well as desktop backgrounds.

Sample images: