Xenomorph IOS App Icon · Midjourney Experience Academy

Xenomorph IOS App Icon

I had a discussion with Marshall today and we discussed my fascination with the Xenomorph from the Alien universe. Half of everything I prompt is "Xenomorph". So he tasked me with creating an IOS icon for a Xenomorph app. He knew my weakest skill in Midjourney was flat logo graphics, so what better way to learn than to just dive in and do it. I have attached some images from my process.

THE FINAL

The first image is my final.

NOT MIDJOURNEY

The second image is what I took into Photoshop (to hack together the pieces and parts) and Illustrator to recreate the new art I refined. This is my comfort level. Could I have prompted this thing closer? Possibly. But this follows my process to iterate and then refine and make more perfect. When I saw this image, I knew it was the direction I wanted to take it. It felt the most "icon" like and was flat and could be viewed easily next to all the other apps on your phone. I just needed it to look more like a Xenomorph and less lke Godzilla.

MOOD BOARD

I usually start with references so I went over to Cosmos (https://www.cosmos.so/) and searched for logos, logos with animals, monsters, and aliens. I then created a moodboard in Midjourney and tried a bunch of different propmpts. I even used the individual images as references to see what that did.

MY ORGANIZE TAB

I went through all my previous Xenomorphs to see if any looked like they could work and I re-rolled the ones that I wanted to have another look at.

ITERATIONS

I really went to town on iterations. Whoo boy! I did not realize how many until I took the screenshots for this write-up. I would go through them and re-roll or vary strong. I did some searches for SREFs for flat graphics and simple shapes as well as just prompting.

THE NEXT BEST

I included these as the next closest but not really thinking they totally feel appropriate for app icons.

So, there is definitely some room for improvement on being more efficient with my prompting and to not shy away from trying out logo ideation in Midjourney moving forward.

I hope this long-winded post is helpful. Let me know what you think.

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