Midjourney Method#4 Creating and Combining Random Styles

Create “sref” codes and combine them to create your unique style.

All images were created by the author in Midjourney.

A character concept sketch of a weird toddler eating worms dressed like a 1960 troll doll with sticking up fluorescent green hair

The title image is the result of a long process of creating a working prompt, generating it in several different styles, and combining those in various ways. This leads to a reliable prompt and style set that you can apply to new story ideas.

I entered the prompt above without any style settings and this was the result:

That was not what I was looking for at all.

The first step

I was messing around with the idea originally using this prompt which gave me some pretty cool results.

A weird toddler eating worms dressed like a 1960 troll doll with sticking up fluorescent green hair — chaos 10 — ar 5:6 — style raw

I wanted to create a drawn character with the same prompt. In order to try out a range of styles, I created the prompt below, adding in the style reference command followed by {random,random,random,random,random}

Use curly brackets and a comma but no space between each word “random”. It will depend on your subscription level as to how many you can do at once.

This creates five grids of four images, each in a different style with a style reference code. As you can see from the three generated strips below, each style has a specific aesthetic quality.