Here are 10 styles you can try on MidJourney or possibly any AI art platform. These styles were made in MidJourney version 7 with personalization turned off. Add these phrases to the end of your prompt, separated by a comma.
MidJourney Prompt Styles
How to use these styles
- Use MidJourney v7 with personalization turned off.
- Write your main prompt, then append one of the style phrases below, separated by a comma.
- Generate variations to see how strongly the style transforms your subject.
Ancient Mayan civilization
This applies a really cool rock-driven, ancient fashion style to characters, with temples and similar elements in the background.
It redesigns things in a comic book way and makes something quite unique and interesting.
Expect very intricate details across characters. The way it transforms familiar art styles is just a really fun style to play with.
The fact that Batman has his shirt off under the cape was a nice touch. The additions to the sun add little intricacies and transform the image well. It is a lot of fun to play with.
Reptilian art style
This is very transformative. With a woman’s face, it turns her into a reptile, with scales, lots of detail, and noticeable changes in shape. I love what it did with Goku, staying very true to the Dragon Ball Z art style.
Even a futuristic car can get a small lizard head shape at the front. It has a big impact on images. Mickey Mouse comes out very creepy. I really love the one of Optimus Prime, with a robot eye on the left and a reptile eye on the right.
Mario hugs onto the Bowser-like outline and proportions. The samurai in front of Mount Fuji looks great, and the Hulk is a standout too. This style has a great impact and is a lot of fun.
Megalithic structure
Keeping with ancient structures and civilizations, this often places a character in front of a megalithic structure, but it can also convert them, like turning the Hulk into a massive green structure.
It can echo key visual cues, like red eyes for the Terminator. Mickey Mouse can show ears at the top with a weird face in the center. I really like what it did with the Statue of Liberty, which ends up looking like an ancient undiscovered version.
You get a mix of adding characters to structures, converting subjects like a house into structures, and even epic nature scenes. A waterfall example looks like something straight out of a movie. It looks awesome.
Billionaire lifestyle
This is just a fun one that makes your characters look really rich. Barbie fits perfectly. Darth Vader wears a suit with a tie. Batman was already a billionaire, but he steps it up with a suit and a glass of wine. Mario gets very fancy gold glasses.
It is a fun one to see what it does with your characters. Darth Maul loves the jewelry by the looks of it on his hands. Hulk is preparing for a dinner party to impress his investors.
As a wooden puppet
This converts your character or subject into a wooden puppet, sometimes with strings and sometimes without. I generally prefer the versions with strings as the best representation of the style. It changes proportions too, so it is not just a carbon copy.
Proportions skew to match that of a wooden puppet. Darth Vader ends up very different from his usual proportions.
Batman looks a little more cartoony. It has a great impact. It tints the wood while keeping a believable wood feel and texture, which is really cool. The woman’s face turned out pretty good, and a car conversion looks like a nice varnished wood style.
In the style of Ki
This is inspired by a Japanese deity or god-type figure, but it does not always apply that directly. It often applies a Japanese aesthetic to images and can sometimes add a godlike feel. It is a very transformative style.
Instead of just having a generic Japanese look, this adds a more unique touch. A Batman example is more subtle than the others. I really love what it did with Darth Vader, with intricate styles and patterns all over his armor.
Pikachu looks very important, almost like something from Naruto. I also like what it did with the car, just a little different and more unique.
Practicing martial arts
People have asked for action styles, and martial arts can be hard to nail. MidJourney v7 does a good job of popping people into gis and Shaolin uniforms and getting them into stances. This must be Darth Vader training in the early days.
The Terminator learning martial arts ends up as a bit of a funny image. Mario has that Shaolin-looking stance about him. I love the way Batman gets baggy clothes in this one. Barbie shows up with a pink gi ready to kick some butt.
Masterpiece Inkbrush Art
This is a great way to add a little more quality to the ink brush style. MidJourney often shows paint flickers in most images, and this prompt adds a well done, crafted feel and a closer likeness to actual ink work. It looks more aesthetic.
I love the Darth Maul example, with brushes diagonally spread. The Optimus piece looks like a black and white drawing. Have a play with this one and you get some really cool images. I love the contrast of one that is white on one side and black on the other. It does a great job.
Demotivational image
This one is not very obvious at first glance, but you get muted colors, high contrast, and a very serious look. It is dark and broody.
It is a great option if that is the style you want, especially for photorealistic prompts, as it tends to lean that way. I really love the way it mutes colors and adds a slightly green or sepia-ish tint. A lot of the time you also get a strong single-direction key light. It is a cool moody style to add.
Prehistoric cave glyph
Sticking with the prehistoric theme, this looks like a discovered rock with a familiar form carved into it, as if someone like Darth Vader was here thousands of years ago and got etched into stone. The Terminator version was interesting.
Maybe the Terminator is that figure down there. Barbie can be shown posing with a glyph she has found. I love the way it feels like something was discovered in the rock, and even a home can look built into the rock. Sometimes you do not get a glyph at all on a subject like a house, but you do on a beautiful waterfall in nature.
This can be a lot of fun for picturesque scenes or cave art looks that could be used for films or just strong images in general.
One example looks like something out of a Michael Bay movie where ancient Transformers have been discovered. I really like the consistency it has and the way it transforms some images into a more primitive style.
Final Thoughts
These 10 MidJourney prompt styles each add a distinct visual identity, from ancient stonework and reptilian makeovers to ink brush treatments and moody demotivational looks. Append one style phrase at the end of your prompt, keep personalization off in v7, and iterate to see how strongly the style reshapes your subject.
