Weekly Prompt Share: Synthwave & Retrowave Images with Leonardo AI.

Donnie Maynard Christianson
4 min readMay 17, 2024

Because you can never have enough 80s Retro.

This week’s prompt share is a great set of Synthwave images for Leonardo AI. You know I’m not big on long intros, so let’s get into it!

Prompt 1: Synthwave Street Scene

AI image by Circuit Scream.
  • Model: AlbedoBase XL
  • Style Preset: Dynamic
  • Alchemy V2: ON
  • Image Size: 768 x 512
  • Element(s): Colorpop, 0.20

Prompt: synthwave sci-fi cyberpunk street scene, retro 1980s back alley, background image, vivid colors, night driver

Negative Prompt: low resolution, cropped, worst quality, low quality, blurry, artist name, border, frame, jpeg artifacts, cropped, signature, text, username, watermark

Prompt 2: Retrowave Fashion

Nothing says futuristic like 1980s clothing. Here’s a great simple prompt for some quick Retrowave Fashions.

  • Model: Leonardo Diffusion XL
  • Style Preset: Sketch Color

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Donnie Maynard Christianson

artist • designer • author | I write about using AI to create characters and virtual fashion designs. | founder: AI Character Academy