I’m back with 10 more Midjourney styles you can add to your images by popping these phrases into your prompt, separated by commas. They shift color, composition, and character details in interesting ways.
Quick way to use these:
- Add one of the style phrases to your prompt, separated by commas.
- Generate and iterate to see how the effect changes your subject.
Midjourney Prompt Styles: Clean Vector Intricate Ukiyo-e Inspired Popart
Vector and pop art added to Ukiyo-e creates a modern incarnation of the old Japanese woodblock style of printing. It brings that old print style into the future with a clean illustration look and a lot of Japanese elements.
It does a good job not just nailing color and overall style but adding cultural elements. I like how it handled examples like a samurai in front of Mount Fuji, the waves like The Great Wave on Hulk, and how it surrounds a futuristic car.
Midjourney Prompt Styles: In the Style of a Rubber Stamp with Red Ink
I tried to get a rubber stamp style. It didn’t quite land as a stamp, but the effect still works well.
- The black-and-red look often ends up like clean painted blocks of color on white.
- You can switch red for another color.
- Sometimes the paper gets a slight yellow tint.
- It can add subtle drips and a stamped feel, even if it doesn’t fully force the black.
It’s a useful way to nail down two-color images with a solid object feel.
Midjourney Prompt Styles: High School Yearbook Photo
This was a fun one to play with just to see what Midjourney or any other AI art platform could come up with. Characters skew younger, and the color fades a bit to feel like an old photo.
Batman looks pretty young and a bit in his infancy. Hulk looks young, still built but not as built. Terminator looks young, and the fade helps sell the photo look. Darth Maul sits there posing for the photo, doing what he should do.
You get combinations like Superman mixing Clark Kent’s uniform with the suit. Mickey Mouse in a hoodie feels more modern. Goku looks like he’s posing for a school photo, and Mario with the bad teenage mustache, hat, and backpack is a perfect example of this style.
Midjourney Prompt Styles: Aztec Symbolic Art
This adds an Aztec style to images with a cool old-fashioned look. It often embeds people into the effect with borders and central framing.
I like how Batman became black and yellow in one result, and how cars often adopt the symbolism of the style directly onto the bodywork. Statue of Liberty produced a unique image I didn’t expect. Goku gets bits around him and some costume changes that feel right for the effect.
Midjourney Prompt Styles: As a Cartoon Mascot for Kids
This is a great way of making things cute and small, with a 2D, mascot-like feel and big-head-little-body proportions.
- Goku gets big eyes and a big smile.
- Statue of Liberty ends up with a silly, childlike look.
- Terminator still looks mean, but the childlike cartoon feel takes over.
- Optimus Prime and Darth Maul get shrunken proportions, and weapons feel less menacing, almost toy-like.
- Superman gains a little white outline that works well.
- Hulk feels like a menacing boy with muscles rather than a huge disaster.
- Objects like a futuristic car become a cute little car that fits a kids cartoon.
Midjourney Prompt Styles: 1950s Magazine Advertisement Art
A solid way to get that painted 1950s look. Sometimes it tries to drop in text, but the print feeling is what sells it.
The low-angle face shots feel true to old adverts. Hulk reads like a printed painting. Terminator sometimes appears alongside a 1950s woman, and Darth Vader can be placed with women and children in background scenes.
Pikachu looks like something you’d find in an old magazine at the front of a house. A futuristic car ends up like an ad for a car of the future from the 50s.
Midjourney Prompt Styles: Severe Toxic Mutation
This is less of a style and more of a character change. You can get some gnarly results, but I kept them tame.
- Hulk looks painfully toxic and mid-mutation.
- Darth Maul gets gruesome, with horns coming out in different ways.
- Statue of Liberty feels like a weird vampire space-alien crossover.
- Goku feels like he’s mutating for evil purposes and about to go on a rampage.
- Batman is surrounded by green goop, like he’s about to mutate.
- Deadpool mutates visibly, with the mask changing too.
It can produce shocking results, but it’s a lot of fun.
Midjourney Prompt Styles: As an Ancient Relic
This converts subjects into small ancient relics or embedded carvings.
Hulk becomes an object you could pick up, almost like a cup. Mario’s red hat drops out, turning him into a faded relic. Terminator becomes a wall-embedded piece. Deadpool becomes a cool skull emblem on a wall, which I didn’t expect.
Darth Vader reads like a heavy brick relic from a pyramid. Optimus Prime may not read as himself, but the object is still interesting. A woman’s face can look like relics taking over, like a movie transformation. Pikachu looks embedded as an aged piece.
Midjourney Prompt Styles: Triquetra Inspired
This one adds the triquetra element in different ways. It doesn’t always behave the same, but the motif shows up.
- It can place the shape around a face or behind a character.
- Cleaner results can make the subject feel like an object or emblem.
- I really like when it frames the head within the shape, like with Hulk.
- Goku works well when the pattern changes the character and the nature of the image, not just the border.
When it alters the character itself, that’s when it gets really fun.
Midjourney Prompt Styles: Sludge Grunge Art
This takes a grunge look and adds sludge – a drippy, slimy effect with lots of dirt and drips. It’s not a huge departure, but the slime and drip details matter.
A woman’s face becomes very drippy in a way that suits this kind of artwork. Pikachu with drips reads well. Statue of Liberty against a dirty background works. Hulk framed with heavy drips looks great. Darth Maul and a samurai at Mount Fuji both get muted colors with the drip treatment.
I like how it changed Superman and popped the symbol onto someone for a real grunge feel. Batman ends up a dirty black-and-white image with a bit of drip action.
Midjourney Prompt Styles: Bonus – Inspired by a Hairless Cat
I did this one for fun. It tends to turn people into hairless cats, and it works surprisingly well.
A woman’s face becomes a direct cat-like version. Batman gets cat-like features and hairless skin. Goku with the tail looks dangerous in a good way. Terminator’s sunglasses plus light through the ears sells the effect.
Hulk gets a cat-like head and creepy skin. Pikachu gets creepy. Darth Vader turns the cat into a helmet, with the grill, mouth, and eyes integrated in an interesting way. A futuristic car with a hairless cat head on the front is a little cheap but very funny, and one of my favorites for the absurdity.
Final Thoughts
These Midjourney prompt styles shift subjects in clear, repeatable ways, from clean vector Ukiyo-e pop to sludge grunge, ancient relics, and mutation effects. Add the style phrase to your prompt, tweak subjects and colors, and see which combinations produce the most interesting changes to character, color, and composition.
