Create Artistic Fantasy Portraits with Style Reference!

No more vanilla portraits with Midjourney!

Stella Sky
AI Art and Business
6 min readMar 27, 2024

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We all were blown away as Midjourney V6 came out and brought us super photorealistic portraits. But after a while, it gets a little bit boring to see similar results for different prompts. Especially Midjourney beginners struggle to make more creative prompts and portraits.

With the new “—sref” or style reference feature, you can spice up your digital portraits and give them a special look. Let me show you a few examples, which I will share with my newsletter subscribers today!

We will compare Midjourney prompts with style references with my special backgrounds and without any additions.

Midjourney prompt 01:

a sorceress of time, short crimson hair, robed in a gown that flows like liquid gold, intricate and luxurious, a vision of beauty that defies the ages. — chaos 40 — ar 3:4 — stylize 800

AI image by Stella Sky

With Style Reference:

a sorceress of time, short crimson hair, robed in a gown that flows like liquid gold, intricate and luxurious, a vision of beauty that…

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Stella Sky
AI Art and Business

I create fantasy art with AI art generators like Midjourney. I write about AI art and AI Business. Subscribe: https://realstellasky.com/newsletter-gt/prompts