Emoji mini dictionary part 1 : people & activities
By CaylaCatz
This is by no means a comprehensive dictionary. A couple of weeks ago, I published a " Quick Intro to using Emojis in AI Art Prompts " https://budgetpixel.com/blog/quick-intro-to-using-emojis-in-ai-art-prompts . I thought it might be useful to see a selection of emojis to copy and paste. They are a bit random. And also to see them in images made in GPT 2.0 Low. To find one not here, just do a google search of what you want + emoji. There are several online emoji dictionaries that cover thousands of emojis. Table of Contents People Clothes Accessories Activities Activity Equipment Improvising Experiment Time with ( ) , [ ] , { } I find it useful to pair heads with clothes. This image is prompted with: ๐ฉ๐ปโ๐ฆฑ๐๐ฉ๐ปโ๐ฆณ๐๐ฉ๐ฝ๐ฅป๐จโ๐ฆฑ๐๐๐๐ฆ๐ป๐๐๐ง๐ป๐ฝ๐ฉณ People ๐ฉ๐ปโ๐ฆฑ๐ฑ๐ปโโ๏ธ๐ฉ๐ปโ๐ฆณ๐ต๐ฉ๐ปโ๐ฆฐ๐ฉ๐พ๐ฉ๐ฝ๐ฑ๐ปโโ๏ธ๐ฉ๐ฉโ๐ฆฑ๐ฉโ๐ฆฐ๐ง๐ป๐ง๐ฆ๐ป๐จโ๐ฆฑ๐ฑโโ๏ธ๐จโ๐ฆฒ๐จ๐ปโ๐ฆฐ๐จ๐ผโ๐ฆฐ๐ง๐ป๐จ๐ป๐จ๐ฝ๐จ๐พ๐ด๐ด๐ฝ๐จโ๐ฆณ๐ณ๐ง๐ป๐ง๐พโโ๏ธ๐จโ๐ฉโ๐งโ๐ฆ๐ง๐ง๐ฝโโ๏ธ๐ฉ๐ผโโ๏ธ๐ฎ๐ผโโ๏ธ๐จ๐ปโโ๏ธ๐จโโ๏ธ๐จโ๐ง๐จ๐ปโ๐จ ๐ฉ๐ฝโ๐ณ๐จ๐ฝโ๐ญ๐จโ๐ซ๐จโ๐๐งโ๐พ๐จ๐ฝโ๐พ๐ฅท๐ง๐ปโโ๏ธ๐๐ฝ๐๐ปโโ๏ธ๐๐ปโโ๏ธ๐ต๐ผ๐ค๐ฐโโ๏ธ๐คตโโ๏ธ๐คต๐ป๐งโโ๏ธ๐ธ๐ผ๐ธ๐ป๐คด๐ธ๐ธ๐ป๐ง๐ง๐ผ๐ง๐ฝ๐ง๐ปโโ๏ธ๐งโโ๏ธ๐งโโ๏ธ๐ง๐ปโโ๏ธ๐ฒ๐งโโ๏ธ๐งโโ๏ธ๐งโโ๏ธ๐ง๐ฟโโ๏ธ๐ง๐ปโโ๏ธ๐ง๐ผ๐ฆธ๐ง๐ผโโ๏ธ๐ง๐งโโ๏ธ๐ง๐ง If you choose people with clothes, they will likely wear those clothes or something similar. This image is prompted with: ๐คด๐ธ๐ง๐งโโ๏ธ๐งโโ๏ธ๐งโโ๏ธ๐งโโ๏ธ๐ง๐ฟโโ๏ธ๐ง๐ปโโ๏ธ Clothes ๐๐๐ฅ๐ฅป๐๐ฝ๐๐๐๐งฅ๐ฅผ๐ฉณ๐ Accessories ๐ ๐ฅฟ๐ฉฐ๐ข๐ฅพ๐โธ๏ธโธ๐ผ๐งฆ๐ช๐๐ฉ๐๐งข๐๐๐งโ๐๐งฃ๐๐งบ๐ผ If you choose heads with accessories that are activity related , they will likely either be doing that activity or holding the item. The hair color on the head will likely be on the person in your image. The activity accessory alone randomly shows a person or just the item . I prompted one with the head and skate image and one with the skate alone, no person . Notice the person has white hair like the head. ๐ฉ๐ปโ๐ฆณโธ๏ธ Occupations can be prompted with an accessories like a hat. Some have their own emojis with a person in uniform. Well, a vampire isn't occupaton but I threw her in for fun . Prompted with: ๐ฉ๐ปโ๐ฆฐ๐ช๐ฎ๐ผโโ๏ธ๐ง๐ผโโ๏ธ Activities ๐๐ป๐โโ๏ธ๐๐ฃ๐๐ป๐๐๐ผ๐บ๐คธโโ๏ธ๐คธ๐ฏ๐ฉ๐พโ๐คโ๐ฉ๐ผ๐คผโโ๏ธ๐๐๐ปโโ๏ธโท๏ธ๐ช๐จโ๐ป๐๐ผ๐๐๐คบ๐๐ผ๐ซ๐ด๏ธ๐ฉ๐ฝโ๐ฆฏ Image prompted with : ๐๐ป๐๐๐ผ๐บ๐คธโโ๏ธ๐คธ๐ฏ Activity Equipment With these emojis, people might be doing their activity or holding the item. ๐ ๐ป๐ช๐ฅ๐พ๐๐๐ป๐๐ฑ๐๐ข๐จ๐๏ธโ๏ธโ๏ธ๐๏ธ๐งต๐ ๏ธ๐ธ๐ป๐ฟ๐๐ด๐โพ๐ฅ๐โฝ๐๐๐ณ๐ช๐ช๐งน๐ช๐งช๐ป๐๏ธ๐ซ๐คฟ๐บ๐ธ๐ฟ๐ฌ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ชโโ๏ธ๐ก๏ธ ๐น ๐ก๏ธ๐ช Emojis are a bit like sentences. "Noun Verb" usually means that Noun does that Verb, right? So it is with emojis usually. "Elf Sword Prince" means the Elf usually holds the Swords. "Elf Sword Prince Sword" usually gives a sword to both of them like below. Some models may read that emoji as a swordfight but usually it's often one sword eahc. ๐งโ๏ธ๐ฒ ๐งโ๏ธ๐ฒโ๏ธ Improvising No baseball bat so improvise! Sometimes there isn't an existing emoji for what you want like a baseball bat so then you have to use whatever is closest. There is no baseball bat but there is a Cricket Bat and Ball. That's a bat! Placing it next to a Baseball should suggest to the AI that the bat is for baseball. Adding a Baseball Hat to the Elf should strenghten the baseball connection and get me an Elf either playing baseball or holding a baseball bat. ๐งข๐ง๐โพ AI models take emojis pretty literally. Elf + Sword + Chef . Is that going to be an Elf and Chef sword fighting? An occupation emoji can be a person or get put on another person emoji. Often occupation emojis get applied to the only person emoji in the prompt if there is one person emoji. So in this case the Elf became a Chef and there's a Sword in the kitchen. ๐งโ๏ธ๐ฉ๐ฝโ๐ณ But look! When I have multiple people, Elf, Vampire, Chef, Witch , then the Chef becomes a separate human person. ๐งโ๏ธ๐ง๐ผโโ๏ธโ๏ธ๐ฉ๐ฝโ๐ณ๐งโโ๏ธ Experiment Time with ( ) , [ ] , { } I really wanted a witch chef so I tried separating with parenthesis. It didn't make a witch chef but I found with GPT anyways, it placed the chef and witch further in the background. And bonus, I got my swordfight with the elf and vampire as they are now separated from the chef and witch . I'd have to test this more to see if the ( ) often works to move things further in the background ๐งโ๏ธ๐ง๐ผโโ๏ธโ๏ธ. (๐ฉ๐ฝโ๐ณ๐งโโ๏ธ) So I tried it with brackets [ ] to see what would happen. They are still in the background but not as far in the background ๐งโ๏ธ๐ง๐ผโโ๏ธโ๏ธ. [๐ฉ๐ฝโ๐ณ๐งโโ๏ธ] Then I tried it with { } and got my Witch Chef. Well, at least I think she's a witch as she's cooking in a cauldron. Hmmm, not obvious is it. Let's try a vampire chef ๐งโ๏ธ๐ง๐ผโโ๏ธโ๏ธ. {๐ฉ๐ฝโ๐ณ๐งโโ๏ธ} Lets try to have the elf fight a fairy while a vampire chef cooks in the background tos ee if the { } works to hint at a merging of emojis. It works but not consistently as can be seen in the next two images with the same prompt. Interestingly, it also divided the scene in 2. ๐งโ๏ธ๐งโโ๏ธโ๏ธ. {๐ฉ๐ฝโ๐ณ๐ง๐ผโโ๏ธ} ๐งโ๏ธ๐งโโ๏ธโ๏ธ. {๐ฉ๐ฝโ๐ณ๐ง๐ผโโ๏ธ} So now I'm going to try { } with [ ] . So in theory the two with swords should be in the foreground. I hoped the vampire chef would be in the background. It failed. I got the split scene again both times I tried. ๐งโ๏ธ๐งโโ๏ธโ๏ธ. [{๐ฉ๐ฝโ๐ณ๐ง๐ผโโ๏ธ}] Maybe it's because of the logic. Elf and Fairy are daytime people and the vampire is a night time. So let's make the fairy the chef, and the vampire a fighter and see if that puts them into the same scene again. It worked in one image and I received a fairy chef; in another image the fairy helped the chef to cook. ๐งโ๏ธ๐ง๐ผโโ๏ธโ๏ธ. [{๐ฉ๐ฝโ๐ณ๐งโโ๏ธ}] Going back to the paragraph ( ), again it puts the chef and the fairy further in the background but not consistently. It didn't merge them tho in several trials. ๐งโ๏ธ๐ง๐ผโโ๏ธโ๏ธ. ({๐ฉ๐ฝโ๐ณ๐งโโ๏ธ}) ๐งโ๏ธ๐ง๐ผโโ๏ธโ๏ธ. ({๐ฉ๐ฝโ๐ณ๐งโโ๏ธ}) So then I tried all of them [ ] , ( ) , and { } . Strangely, it reversed it and put the chef and fairy in front. It also did merge the fairy and chef into a fairy chef but only 1 in 4 generations. The cook being moved into the foreground remained consistent tho in all 4 generations. ๐งโ๏ธ๐ง๐ผโโ๏ธโ๏ธ. [({๐ฉ๐ฝโ๐ณ๐งโโ๏ธ})] ๐งโ๏ธ๐ง๐ผโโ๏ธโ๏ธ. [({๐ฉ๐ฝโ๐ณ๐งโโ๏ธ})]
Tags: tutorial, ai art tutorials, ai prompts, caylacatz, emojis
Comments (24)
TheBard
( @CaylaCatz , @panos ... no insult intended, just kidding arround with you ๐ )
CaylaCatz
yeah, I can understand why that's frustrating. sometimes when that happens to me, I ask copilot. something along the lines of abc keeps and I want xyz and this is my prompt " ... " and what do you suggest can fix it? It's nice because sometimes it will tell me what is causing the error. Like recently when I was getting a muddled background when all I wanted was to switch a fountain on the right side to the left side in an image-to-image prompt. Apparently the way I was describing distance was scrabbling the poor AI's brain so it put out a muddled mess. Copilot's rephrasing helped. Sometimes it just simpler to switch to a different model because I think the models seem to behave differently. I did Copilot's suggestion with some changes and changed models and that fixed my particular issue.
user_google_961350
Responding to you response below... There's no denying that AI graphic generators do some amazing things these days, but sometimes their logical sense fails so miserably that you just have to scratch your head. I recently did a picture of a soldier wearing a helmet and a girl with blonde hair, and SeeDream gave me a girl wearing a helmet and a soldier with blonde hair. For the life of me I could not figure out how it got that simple scene mixed up. And of course the worst part is that after it did it once the stupid AI will keep doing it again and again when I try to regenerate. Meanwhile, I have no idea what I can do in the prompt to fix that. Very frustrating.
CaylaCatz
I just think it would be fun for people. Plus sometimes something happens and I experiment to see if it's a one time thing or if there is any consistency to it. The thing with the parenthesis, brackets and stuff. I have a feeling it will work for positioning even with words, not just emojis. So it would be good to position people/things if you have a couple of groups and one set is foreground and one set is in back of them. Anyways it bears experimenting. I wish I knew more about coding as I think it's may have something to do with setting hierarchies.
user_google_961350
Good idea to ask Copilot for help...it takes a robot to understand the mind of another robot. That reminds me, though, of my early experience with Chat GPT, when I first started trying to get AI to generate pictures. The picture-generating robot kept rejecting a prompt, and the chatting robot tried all kinds of ways to reword it in order to get it past the other robot; that was kind of funny. In the end, though, the picture-generating robot held its ground, and the chatting robot eventually had to give up.
CaylaCatz
I agree there's a lot to learn. Experiments are interesting. Emojis aren't really a new language. more like pictures. In some ways it's more concrete. And the logic seems to be more linear like a black ball next to a dog head then a tree then a flower is likely to result in a black dog and not a black tree or black flower. Most of the time. Randomization, of course, affects everything. Whereas, I feel like in the written prompts adjectives don't always affect the noun they are next to but some other noun further away.
CaylaCatz
lol, neither do I. I copy and paste them into google and ask google what they are. Some of them are obvious of course. Some of them I have to see big to see what they are. You should see what @TheBard did with the elf emojis. He has elves fighting orcs! I was pretty impressed
DavidP
@CaylaCatz thanks for sharing. I appreciate the time and effort you put into these blogs.
Note that in the Accessories section several emojis rendered as squares. Though as I type the comment it appears it will render correctly ๐งฆ
When you are done, perhaps a final Emoji Blog Index with a link to all the specific blogs?
TheBard
P.S.: There are no emojis for Orks, so I used the monster emoji with the elf emojis and GPT 1.5 figured out, that the correct monsters for elves are orcs ๐ ... male elf and female elf fighting monsters in the forest (and adding some blood never hurts) :
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CaylaCatz
laughing. And secretly the picture-generating robot was on his coffee break and didn't want to get up and make images. Because once that door was open, no more coffee forever. He'd never get to sit down again ever.