Ultimate A.I. Visual Style Guide
Transform Your Midjourney Prompts with These 380+ Creative Techniques (with 1500+ Examples and Descriptions)
As I explore AI’s artistic potential, I am amazed by its endless possibilities. Each new discovery fills me with wonder and excitement, knowing that it can shape the future of art and design. I share my insights to inspire others to push boundaries and strive for greatness.
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Here is a list of over 350 useful terms for A.I. art generation tools, including image examples. These cover multinational art styles, movements, brush strokes, design and color terms, photographic and film terms, pop culture stylistic genres, artistic composition styles, and more.
For this chair style comparison, I have adjusted my Midjourney settings to prioritize quality and style over the default settings.
For reference, here are chair generations with the above settings and no additional prompts. These should result in a variety of random styles.
Chair
/imagine prompt: chair
List of 350+ Prompts with Image Examples
Here is a list of chair designs that showcase a unique stylistic element. These can be combined to create an eclectic mix of styles.
8 bit / pixel
/imagine prompt: chair, 8bit
Abstract / abstraction
/imagine prompt: chair, abstract
or
/imagine prompt: chair, abstraction
Abstract Expressionism
/imagine prompt: chair, abstract expressionism
Academic
/imagine prompt: chair, academic
Aesthetic / beautiful / designer / superb
/imagine prompt: chair, aesthetic
or
/imagine prompt: chair, beautiful
or
/imagine prompt: chair, designer
or
/imagine prompt: chair, suberb
Aluminum
Ambient light
Analytical drawing
Anime
Angular / oblique angle
App
Appropriation
Architecture
Art Deco
Art Nouveau
Artifice
Arts and crafts
Assemblage
Atelier Populaire
Automatism
Avant-garde
B movie
Baroque
Bauhaus
Beat
Belle Epoque
Ben-Day dots
Biomorphic
Bird’s eye view
Black
Blender / render / unreal engine / unreal engine 5 / octanerender / octane render / octane
Block print
Blurry
Brocade
Brushwork
Built environment
Byzantine
Calligraphy
Canon
Card
Caricature
Cartes-de-visite (CdV)
Celluloid
Censorship
Ceramics
Charcoal
Chibi
Chine colle
Choreography
Chromogenic
Cinematographe
Cinematic
Cityscape
Classicism
Clever
Cloth
Collage
Color (complementary, warm, cool, local, relative, blue, etc)
Color Field
Coloring book
Copper
Comic
Composition (gestalt, figure-ground relationship, rule of thirds, dynamic symmetry, golden mean/fibonacci nubmers, steelyard, balanced scales, circle, s, triangle, cross, radiating line, tunnel, etc)
Concentric
Conceptual
“The idea itself, even if not made visual, is as much a work of art as any finished product.” — Sol LeWitt
Construct
Constructivism
Contour
Contrast
Cor-Ten steel
Costume
Close crop
Cross-hatching
Cubism
Cultural icon
Cute
Cyberpunk
Cybernetic
Dada
Daguerreotype
Dark fantasy
De Stijl (The Style)
Decorative / exquisite / ornamentation
Decorative arts
Deep focus
Design doc / diagrammatic drawing
Designer
Die Brücke (the Bridge)
Digital
Diptych
Direct positive
Documentary film
Documentary photography
Double exposure
Dramatic
Drawing
Drip
Drypoint
Drybrush
Dynamic symmetry
Earthwork / land art / landscape
École des Beaux-Arts
Electronic
Elevation
Embroidery / needlework
Emulsion
Enamel
Establishing shot
Etching
Expressionism
Extreme close up (ECU)
Extreme long shot
Extreme wide shot
Fabric / textile
Facade
Fantasy
Fauvism
Fibre
Figurative
Film
Fine detail
Fish eye lens
Flat
Flat design
Font
Foreground
Forced perspective
Form
Formal
Found object
Framing
Full shot
Futurism
Gelatin silver
Genre
Geometric
Gestalt
Gesture
Glitch
Global Illumination
Glow
God
God ray(s)
Goddess
Golden mean
Gouache
Gradient
Graffiti
Graphic
Graphite
Greek
Grotesque
Halftone
Hardboard
Harlem Renaissance
HDR
Hieroglyphics
High angle (shot)
High quality
Hologram
Holographic / iridescent
Horizon line
Horror
Hue
Iconic
Iconography
Idol
Illuminate
Illuminated manuscript
Illusion
Illustration
Impasto
Impressionism
Improvisation
In situ / setting
Inclined plane
Industrial Design
Information age
Infographic
Installation art
Institutional
Intaglio
Interaction Design
Interior Design
Intricate (intricately detailed)
Isometric
Japanese ink
Jazz age
Jewel
Juxtaposition
Kawaii
Kinetic
Kintsugi
Lacquer
Lacquerware
Latin
Leather
Light
Line
Lithography
Logo
Long shot
Low angle
Mandala
Manga
Matte
Maximalism
Mecha
Metal
Melodrama
Metaphysical
Mexican muralist
Mid-century modern
Minimalism
Mixed media
Model
Modern
Monochrome
Montage
Mood
Mosaic
Motif
Mural
Muse
Narrative
Nastaliq
Naturalism
Negative (photographic)
Neo-impressionism
Neoclassical
Neon
Obelisk
Oil Paint
Old Master
One-line illustration / drawing (drawing is less digital)
Op art
Opaque
Open forms
Origami
Organic
Painting
Palette (warm, cool, monochromatic, analogous, complementary, split complementary, triadic, square, rectangle, etc)
Palette Knife
Panel
Panning
Panorama
Paper cut craft
Paper quilling
Paranoiac critical method
“Presentation by Dalí
Paranoia and critical
The method is based on a “faculty” that only some have, that of being inhabited by “associations and delusional interpretations”. This is the ” paranoia ” part of the method. Whether in the framework of an authentic delusion or that of an ordinary fantasy, the extravagant ideas at the origin of the work are organized in a structure. It is this structure, specific to what is the theme of an obsession, “objective”, and not the subjective thought of the artist, which systematically generates and links the images from one and several obsessive ideas.However, these images of obsessive ideas will “be objectified a priori by the critical intervention “, that is to say, thanks to distant reflection, the eye of the artist. This is the “critical” part of the method. The role of the artist is to be receptive to these “associations” of images and to understand the system that associates them, “interpret” their meaning, to organize them into a work.”
Pastel
Patchwork
Pattern
Persona
Photogram
Photograph
Photogravure
Photojournalism
Photorealism
Photoshoot
Pigment / color
Pixel art
Pixel sorting
Plan
Plastic
Pliable
Plywood
Point-of-view shot
Pointillism
Polaroid
Polyethylene
Pop art
Porcelain
Post-impressionism
Postmodernism
Precisionism
Primary color
Profile
Propaganda
Proportion
Prototype
Psychedelic
PVC pipe
Readymade
Realism
Relic
Renaissance
Rococo
Romanticism
Rule of thirds
Rural crafts
Satire
Scan lines
Scene
Scifi
Screenprint
Sculpture
Secondary color
Selective focusing
Shade
Shape (spiral, zizag, circle, triangle, curve, diagonal)
Silhouette
Site-specific
Sketch
Sparkle
Special effect
Splatter
Stain
Stained glass
Steel
Stencil
Sticker
Still life
Stone
Street art
Street photography
Strobe
Style / type
Stylized
Subconscious (in technical use, Unconscious)
Subject matter
Sublime
Subsurface Scattering
Suprematism
Superrealism
Surreal / surrealism / unreal
Symbol / symbolism
Synthetic
Tarot
Tactile
Tattoo
Technique
Techno
Tempera
Tension
Texture
The New Art
Tilt shift
Tint
Tone
Translucent
Triptych
Trippy
Trope
Typeface / typography
Ukiyo-e
Unreal engine / unreal engine 5 / octanerender / octane render / octane
Value
Vantage point
Vaudeville
Vector
Vibrant
Viewpoint
Vignette
Virtuosity
Viscosity
Voxel
Watercolor
Wax-print cotton
Weld / welded
White
Wide shot
Woodcut
Works Progress Administration / WPA
Zero Group
Ziggurat
Zoetrope
Zoom shot
Bonus ChatGPT A.I. Quick Hacks
Poetry prompts:
Stanza = a set amount of lines in poetry grouped together by their length, meter or rhyme scheme.
Couplet = a two-line stanza.
Tercet = a three-line stanza.
Quatrain = a four-line stanza.
Cinquain = a five-line stanza.
Sestet = a six-line stanza.
Meter = the pattern of stressed syllables (long-sounding) and unstressed syllables (short-sounding) in poetry.
Rhyme scheme = the pattern of rhyme that comes at the end of each line or verse.
Syllable = the single, unbroken sound of a spoken or written word.