Style Prompts

A style prompt is a free-text visual style description that automatically applies to every portrait generated under the active design — characters, locations, scenes, and wardrobes all inherit it.

What Is a Style Prompt?

A style prompt is a free-text description of the visual style you want for your project. It can cover any combination of visual attributes:

Medium — watercolor, 3D render, photography, digital painting
Art style — anime, noir, impressionist, photorealistic
Lighting — soft natural light, dramatic chiaroscuro, neon glow
Color palette — muted earth tones, vibrant neon, desaturated pastels

The style prompt defines how things look, not what they are. Subject matter is handled by each entity’s own image prompt.

How It Feeds Into Generation

When a design is active, its style prompt is loaded into the project context as charStylePrompt. In every portrait modal — characters, locations, scenes, and wardrobes — it appears as a read-only italic “Style” section in the right column. At generation time, the style prompt is combined with the entity-specific image prompt to produce the final generation request.

Works Across All Entity Types

The style prompt is combined with entity-specific data at generation time. Here is what gets merged for each type:

Characters

style prompt + character description + image prompt

Locations

style prompt + location description + image prompt

Scenes

style prompt + scene heading + image prompt

Wardrobes

style prompt + wardrobe description + image prompt

Writing Tips

Focus on visual style, not subject matter — the entity prompt handles subjects; the style prompt handles aesthetics.
Start short and refine — “watercolor, soft light” is a perfectly fine starting point. Add detail as you iterate.
Be specific about medium — “digital oil painting” beats “artistic.”
Include lighting and color — “warm golden hour lighting, desaturated palette” goes a long way toward consistency.
Avoid contradictions with entity prompts — if your style says “black and white photography” but an entity prompt says “vivid red dress,” the model may produce unpredictable results.

Save as Design Default

In the portrait modal, the “Save as Design Default” button persists the current seed and negative prompt back to the active design. This means future generations for any entity under that design will start with the same seed and negative prompt, giving you a consistent baseline across characters, locations, scenes, and wardrobes.