Eight tested style clauses from the original Reddit thread, each shown with the image it generated and ready to copy into a prompt or wildcard file.
Put the medium first and make it describe the whole scene. Then add the subject, composition, and details that belong to that medium.
Same subject and seed, two ways to phrase the style. The first names a picture-book style; the second tells the model how the whole scene is drawn:
- named,
Children's picture book drawing, soft crayon and gouache, simple rounded shapes, gentle flat colour. - rephrased,
Drawn the way a children's picture book is drawn: soft crayon and gouache, simple rounded shapes, flat gentle colour.
One subject, seed 77220, the clause is the only variable. Each is about 100 characters; they are plain English and carry nothing model-specific.
Manga, The whole scene drawn as black-and-white manga: ink linework, screentone shading, no colour anywhere.
Watercolour storybook, The whole scene as a watercolour storybook illustration: soft washes, gentle linework, painted background.
Comic book, The whole scene as comic-book art: bold ink outlines, flat colour, halftone dots, drawn background.
Chibi, The whole scene drawn chibi: super-deformed proportions, huge head, tiny body, flat cel colour throughout.
Gouache travel poster, The whole scene as a vintage gouache travel poster: flat opaque paint, simplified shapes, limited warm palette.
70s cel anime, The whole scene as a 1970s cel anime frame: hand-painted cels, muted palette, film grain, painted background.
Pop art, Printed the way pop art is printed: bold black outlines, flat primary colour, visible halftone dots.
Mid-century cartoon, The whole scene as a 1960s limited-animation cartoon: angular flat shapes, off-register colour, painted backdrop.
All eight, one per line, for a ComfyUI wildcard or dynamic-prompt node: wildcards/styles.txt
Use this order:
[whole-scene medium] + [subject and setting] + [composition] + [medium-specific detail]
A clean base subject:
A young woman sitting at an outdoor cafe table, holding an iced drink near her face. She has long dark hair, a thin white summer top, and small hoop earrings. Composed as a waist-up view, directly facing the viewer, with the street behind her.
Three useful substitutions when moving from photography to illustration:
facing the camerabecomesfacing the viewershallow depth of fieldbecomessimplified background detail- lens and studio-light terms become mark-making, palette, paper, ink, paint, or print terms from the target medium
The earlier sweep contributes 15 more reusable clauses in wildcards/styles-extra.txt. Its raw generation record remains in sweep.json.
For a larger community style list, see the wildcards thread.
The prompt text and source records used to build this page are kept in data.json and sweep.json.