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 keywords

Pixel Art

Limited palettes, hard pixels, and the constraints that made them.

Prompt keywords

Watercolor

Soft washes, bleeding edges, and paper left deliberately bare.

Prompt keywords

Oil Painting

Thick brushwork, deep glazes, and old master lighting.

Prompt keywords

Cyberpunk

High tech, low life, and rain that reflects the signage.

Prompt keywords

Synthwave

Chrome sunsets, perspective grids, and manufactured nostalgia.

Prompt keywords

Art Nouveau

Whiplash curves, botanical ornament, and decorative borders.

Prompt keywords

Pop Art

Flat primaries, Ben Day dots, and commercial print energy.

Prompt keywords

3D Render

Studio-lit CGI with soft shadows and believable materials.

Prompt keywords

Line Art

Contour, weight, and nothing else doing the work.

Prompt keywords

Low Poly

Faceted geometry where the triangles are the point.

Prompt keywords

Impressionist

Broken color, visible dabs, and light as the real subject.

Prompt keywords

Surrealism

Impossible things rendered with completely straight faces.

Prompt keywords

Steampunk

Brass, rivets, and machinery that shows all its working.

Prompt keywords

Minimalist

One subject, one idea, and a great deal of empty space.

Prompt keywords

Comic Book

Heavy inks, dramatic angles, and flat confident color.

Prompt keywords

Mix 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 cases

See also the AI models behind each style and the prompting glossary.