31 Art Styles for ChatGPT Image Generation

Creating images with ChatGPT has become one of my favorite creative activities. I’ve spent countless hours experimenting with various prompts and styles.

What I found is that being specific about the art style you want makes all the difference. You can generate images by going to chatgpt.com and using the ChatGPT-4o model, or visit Sora for photo generation.

Here are 31 art styles I’ve tested, with example prompts.

1. Pixel Art

Pixel art brings back memories of classic video games with its blocky, retro aesthetic. Each image is built from individual colored squares, creating a nostalgic digital look that’s both simple and detailed.

Prompt: Create a pixel art scene of a knight defending a castle from a fire-breathing dragon.

2. 3D Illustration

This style creates images that look like they could be characters from a 3d animation movie. The 3D effect gives depth and dimension, making characters appear soft and touchable.

Prompt: Create a 3D illustration of a friendly, cartoonish monster character with soft, fluffy fur, sitting on a cloud.

3. Watercolor

Watercolor art has that flowing, organic feel where colors blend naturally into each other. The style captures the unpredictable beauty of real watercolor paintings with their soft edges and transparent layers.

Prompt: Create a vibrant watercolor illustration of a bustling European market scene.

4. Low Poly

Low poly art uses geometric shapes and minimal polygons to create clean, modern-looking images. It’s popular in video games and gives everything a sharp, angular appearance.

Prompt: Create a low poly landscape of a serene mountain island surrounded by a calm ocean at sunset.

5. ASCII Art

ASCII art is pure text-based creativity. Using only keyboard characters, it creates recognizable images that have a retro computer terminal feel.

Prompt: Create a portrait of a cat looking directly at the viewer, made entirely of complex ASCII art.

6. Comic Book Style

Comic book art features bold outlines, vibrant colors, and dynamic action poses. The halftone dot patterns give it that classic superhero comic feel.

Prompt: Create a dynamic action panel of a superhero flying over a city, in a classic comic book style with bold lines and halftone dot shading.

7. Anime Style

Anime art is characterized by large expressive eyes, detailed hair, and emotional storytelling. It captures the distinctive Japanese animation aesthetic that’s loved worldwide.

Prompt: Create a beautiful anime style scene of two high school students sharing an umbrella under a cherry blossom tree in the rain.

8. Oil Painting

Oil painting style mimics the rich textures and deep colors of traditional painted masterpieces. You can almost see the brushstrokes and feel the thickness of the paint.

Prompt: Create a dramatic seascape with crashing waves against a rocky cliff during a storm, as a textured oil painting.

9. Wireframe

Wireframe art shows the basic structure of objects using only lines and edges. It’s like seeing the skeleton of a 3D model, giving a technical and architectural feel.

Prompt: Create a detailed wireframe rendering of the human skull, viewed from a three-quarter angle.

10. Children’s Book Illustration

This style uses bright colors, simple shapes, and friendly characters that appeal to young readers. Everything looks safe, fun, and approachable.

Prompt: Create a colorful and simple children’s book illustration of a rocket ship flying past smiling planets and stars.

11. Vintage Cartoon Style

Vintage cartoon style takes you back to the 1930s with rubber hose animation, pie eyes, and simple character designs. It has that classic Disney and Warner Bros feel.

Prompt: Create a mischievous black and white cat with “pie eyes” and white gloves, in a 1930s vintage cartoon style.

12. Webtoon Style

Webtoon art is designed for vertical scrolling on mobile devices. It features dramatic expressions, dynamic panel layouts, and vibrant digital coloring.

Prompt: Create a vertical panel strip of a character dramatically realizing a shocking truth, with large expressive eyes, in a popular webtoon style.

13. Graphic Novel Style

Graphic novel art tends to be more mature and detailed than regular comics. It uses sophisticated shading, realistic proportions, and cinematic compositions.

Prompt: Create a dark, moody panel of a character walking down a rain-slicked alley at night, in a detailed graphic novel style.

14. Isometric Game Art

Isometric art uses a specific 3D perspective that’s popular in strategy games and mobile apps. Everything is viewed from a 45-degree angle, creating a clean architectural look.

Prompt: Create a piece of isometric game art showing a section of a bustling fantasy village with a blacksmith, an inn, and market stalls.

15. Miniature Style

Miniature style makes everything look like tiny handcrafted models. It’s the kind of detailed work you’d see in model train sets or dollhouses.

Prompt: Create a detailed miniature style image of a railroad train traveling through a tiny, handcrafted forest.

16. Claymation Style

Claymation captures the look of stop-motion animation using clay figures. Everything has that slightly imperfect, handmade quality that’s both charming and nostalgic.

Prompt: Create a scene of two clay dinosaurs having a conversation in a prehistoric jungle, in a charming claymation style.

17. Infographic Style

Infographic art is all about clear communication through visual design. It uses clean icons, simple shapes, and logical flow to explain complex information.

Prompt: Create a clean and modern illustration explaining the water cycle, using icons and arrows in an infographic style.

18. Thermal Imaging

Thermal imaging style shows heat signatures in false colors, typically using blues for cold areas and reds/yellows for hot spots. It creates an otherworldly scientific look.

Prompt: Create an image of a wolf howling in a dark forest, as seen through thermal imaging, with hot and cold spots clearly visible.

19. Psychedelic Art

Psychedelic art features swirling patterns, impossible colors, and mind-bending visuals. It’s trippy, hypnotic, and full of intricate details that seem to move.

Prompt: Create a forest of giant, magical mushrooms with hypnotic, rainbow-colored patterns, in a highly detailed psychedelic art style.

20. X-Ray Style

X-ray style shows internal structures while maintaining some external details. It creates that medical imaging look with a touch of sci-fi appeal.

Prompt: Create an x-ray style image of a human hand holding a glowing smartphone.

21. Rotoscope Animation

Rotoscope animation traces over live-action footage to create fluid, realistic movement. It has that dreamy, flowing quality seen in films like “A Scanner Darkly.”

Prompt: Create a still from a dance sequence, showing a person in mid-motion with fluid, outlined movements, in a rotoscope animation style.

22. Ink Print Style

Ink print style uses cross-hatching and bold lines to create detailed black and white images. It’s reminiscent of old book illustrations and newspaper engravings.

Prompt: Create a detailed portrait of an old fisherman with a weathered face, using the cross-hatching and bold lines of an ink print style.

23. Glitch Art

Glitch art celebrates digital errors and corruption. It uses pixel sorting, color banding, and data moshing to create chaotic but visually striking images.

Prompt: Create a portrait of a person where the image is fractured with digital static, color banding, and pixel sorting, in a chaotic glitch art style.

24. Pop Art

Pop art uses bold colors, repeated imagery, and commercial art techniques. It’s the style made famous by artists like Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein.

Prompt: Create a portrait of an actress, repeated four times in a grid with different vibrant, bold colors, in the style of pop art.

25. Pencil Drawing

Pencil drawing style creates soft, realistic shading using only graphite tones. It captures the intimate, personal feel of traditional sketching.

Prompt: Create a soft, shaded pencil drawing of a cat.

26. Neon Art

Neon art glows with electric colors against dark backgrounds. It captures the atmosphere of city nights and retro arcade games.

Prompt: Create a glowing sign of a wolf howling, made of bright blue and purple tubes, in a neon art style against a dark brick wall.

27. Graffiti

Graffiti style brings street art energy with bold letters, dripping paint, and vibrant colors. It’s raw, energetic, and full of urban attitude.

Prompt: Create the word “DREAM” in a wildstyle graffiti font, spray-painted on a brick wall with drips and vibrant colors.

28. Gradient Line Art

Gradient line art uses continuous lines that change color smoothly from one hue to another. It’s minimalist but visually striking.

Prompt: Create a minimalist logo of a mountain range at sunrise, using a single continuous line that shifts from orange to purple, in a gradient line art style.

29. Flat Design Art

Flat design eliminates unnecessary details in favor of clean shapes and solid colors. It’s modern, functional, and easy on the eyes.

Prompt: Create a workspace scene with a computer, lamp, and coffee cup, using simple shapes and a limited color palette in a flat design art style.

30. Sketch Style

Sketch style shows the drawing process with visible construction lines and rough strokes. It feels spontaneous and energetic, like catching an artist in the act.

Prompt: Create an architectural sketch style drawing of an old Italian villa, with loose lines and quick shading.

31. Stop-Motion Illustration Style

Stop-motion illustration style makes everything look like handcrafted puppets and sets. It has that tactile, physical quality that feels warm and inviting.

Prompt: Create a cozy scene of a small character made of felt reading a book inside a house made of cardboard, in a stop-motion illustration style.

Each of these styles offers unique creative possibilities. I recommend starting with a few that catch your eye and experimenting with different subjects and compositions.

The more details you provide about the style, mood, and content, the better results you’ll get.