AI art styles
Naming a style rarely gets you the style. Each page here breaks down what actually defines the look and gives you the prompt keywords that reproduce it.
Anime
Cel shading, expressive faces, and clean confident linework.
Prompt keywordsPixel Art
Limited palettes, hard pixels, and the constraints that made them.
Prompt keywordsWatercolor
Soft washes, bleeding edges, and paper left deliberately bare.
Prompt keywordsOil Painting
Thick brushwork, deep glazes, and old master lighting.
Prompt keywordsCyberpunk
High tech, low life, and rain that reflects the signage.
Prompt keywordsSynthwave
Chrome sunsets, perspective grids, and manufactured nostalgia.
Prompt keywordsArt Nouveau
Whiplash curves, botanical ornament, and decorative borders.
Prompt keywordsPop Art
Flat primaries, Ben Day dots, and commercial print energy.
Prompt keywords3D Render
Studio-lit CGI with soft shadows and believable materials.
Prompt keywordsLine Art
Contour, weight, and nothing else doing the work.
Prompt keywordsLow Poly
Faceted geometry where the triangles are the point.
Prompt keywordsImpressionist
Broken color, visible dabs, and light as the real subject.
Prompt keywordsSurrealism
Impossible things rendered with completely straight faces.
Prompt keywordsSteampunk
Brass, rivets, and machinery that shows all its working.
Prompt keywordsMinimalist
One subject, one idea, and a great deal of empty space.
Prompt keywordsComic Book
Heavy inks, dramatic angles, and flat confident color.
Prompt keywordsMix a style with a use case
Style keywords stack with anything. Add them to a logo, a wallpaper or a character prompt and the whole result shifts.
Browse use casesSee also the AI models behind each style and the prompting glossary.