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27 tested prompts with real example images. Hover an idea to read its prompt, then open it in the Kromoss studio.

Cozy Indie Hair Salon Illustration, made with Kromoss AI
Cozy Indie Hair Salon Illustration
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Cozy Indie Hair Salon Illustration

A vibrant whimsical digital illustration of a cozy indie hair salon, featuring a young girl with long brown hair getting her hair styled by a fashionable hairstylist. Bright pink, purple, orange, and peach color palette with playful retro decor, indoor plants, patterned walls, co…

Layered Paper Cut Couple Illustration, made with Kromoss AI
Layered Paper Cut Couple Illustration
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Layered Paper Cut Couple Illustration

{ "style": "layered paper-cut illustration, papercraft diorama, handcrafted aesthetic", "technique": { "layering": "multiple stacked paper layers with soft drop shadows between each layer", "depth": "5–7 visible depth planes from foreground to background", "edges": "smooth, round…

Korean City Watercolor Travel Sketch, made with Kromoss AI
Korean City Watercolor Travel Sketch
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Korean City Watercolor Travel Sketch

Dreamy watercolor travel illustration of a peaceful Korean city street, hand-painted urban sketchbook style, delicate ink linework mixed with soft watercolor washes, cozy café storefronts, warm bakery lights glowing through windows, quiet morning atmosphere after light rain, refl…

Pencil Sketch Fashion Illustration, made with Kromoss AI
Pencil Sketch Fashion Illustration
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Pencil Sketch Fashion Illustration

A high-detail digital illustration of a stylish woman sitting gracefully on a stone ledge, posing with one hand near her chin and legs crossed. She is wearing vintage-inspired round sunglasses, a white blouse with rolled-up sleeves, denim overalls, and rugged lace-up combat boots…

Japanese Style Doodle Self Portrait, made with Kromoss AI
Japanese Style Doodle Self Portrait
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Japanese Style Doodle Self Portrait

Generate an illustration of "me" as you imagine it. Features include a Japanese illustration style, distinct character features, natural emotional expressions, a half-body composition, dynamic poses, exquisite clothing details, a hand-drawn graffiti style, ink splatter strokes, f…

Exaggerated Anime Style Redraw, made with Kromoss AI
Exaggerated Anime Style Redraw
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Exaggerated Anime Style Redraw

Create a trending anime art style image from the uploaded subject. Use confident line-work with slight variation and minimal cel shading using flat shadow shapes. Use bright, saturated colors and clean graphic lighting. The style is defined by exaggerated, cartoonish character pr…

Clumsy MS Paint Redraw, made with Kromoss AI
Clumsy MS Paint Redraw
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Clumsy MS Paint Redraw

Please redraw the attached image in the most clumsy, messy, and hopelessly pathetic way possible. Use a white background and make it look like it was drawn in MS Paint with a mouse. It should vaguely resemble the original, but not really — like it’s kind of correct in some places…

Paper Craft Photo Recreation, made with Kromoss AI
Paper Craft Photo Recreation
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Paper Craft Photo Recreation

Recreate this image in a paper craft style, simplifying the details to make them suitable for paper craft artwork. Arrange the overall composition to feel visually pleasing, soft, and cute. You may add charming decorative elements such as birds, butterflies, flowers, etc., to enh…

Overthinking Surreal Street Campaign, made with Kromoss AI
Overthinking Surreal Street Campaign
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Overthinking Surreal Street Campaign

Ultra-realistic conceptual portrait of a young woman with long wavy hair and soft defined features, wearing rose-tinted rectangular sunglasses, an oversized ivory cropped t-shirt, fitted light-wash denim jeans, and clean white sneakers. She is sitting casually with a confident ye…

Photoreal Comic Runner Breaking Frame, made with Kromoss AI
Photoreal Comic Runner Breaking Frame
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Photoreal Comic Runner Breaking Frame

{ "prompt": "Ultra-realistic, vibrant photorealistic rendering of a young man with short curly dark hair, neatly trimmed beard, and black rectangular glasses, wearing a dark textured turtleneck sweater and jeans. He is captured mid-run in a dynamic, forward-breaking pose, dramati…

Minimalist Graffiti Sketch, made with Kromoss AI
Minimalist Graffiti Sketch
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Minimalist Graffiti Sketch

Express [Subject/Theme] in a graffiti sketch style, presenting an overall visual effect of quick outlining, free deformation, impromptu hand-drawing, and draft-like appearance. The lines are casual, exaggerated, and can vary in thickness, slightly messy but rhythmic and expressiv…

Cyberpunk Sci-Fi Mandala, made with Kromoss AI
Cyberpunk Sci-Fi Mandala
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Cyberpunk Sci-Fi Mandala

I had Kromoss create images, and when I had it create them again today, it might be Kromoss, and it seems like the quality has changed, so I'm making a note of it The light blue and yellow one on the left is from last week The purple one on the right is from today I feel like the…

Shanghai Line Art Postcard, made with Kromoss AI
Shanghai Line Art Postcard
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Shanghai Line Art Postcard

Design a Shanghai postcard in black line art style.

Mona Lisa Drinking Cola Painting, made with Kromoss AI
Mona Lisa Drinking Cola Painting
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Mona Lisa Drinking Cola Painting

Generate an oil painting of Mona Lisa drinking cola.

Wild Cursive Typography Design, made with Kromoss AI
Wild Cursive Typography Design
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Wild Cursive Typography Design

Creative artistic typography "Zong You Ji Feng Qi", hand-written style with a fine brush, overall text arranged horizontally, with strong visual impact; Deeply integrated with the essence of handwritten calligraphy, the brushstrokes carry the rugged and free-spirited nature of br…

Spiky Hair Anime Girl Illustration, made with Kromoss AI
Spiky Hair Anime Girl Illustration
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Spiky Hair Anime Girl Illustration

A dynamic anime illustration of a girl with spiky blonde hair tied in a high ponytail with a black bow, striking teal eyes, and a dark purple and black magical uniform with gold trim and diamond gems. She is in an intense crouching superhero landing pose, one hand pressed to the…

Katana Draw Black and White Illustration, made with Kromoss AI
Katana Draw Black and White Illustration
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Katana Draw Black and White Illustration

A high-contrast, black-and-white illustration of an elderly man in a sharp suit, drawing a katana. The man has slicked-back white hair, deep wrinkles, and an intense, focused expression, looking down at the blade. He wears a dark suit, white shirt, and dark tie. His hands are pro…

Cartoon Therapy Session Scene, made with Kromoss AI
Cartoon Therapy Session Scene
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Cartoon Therapy Session Scene

A humorous 3D cartoon illustration of a therapy session in a cozy office. On the left, a sad anthropomorphic avocado half missing its pit sits on a brown leather lounge chair, gesturing with its thin stick-like arms. A large speech bubble above it reads "I just feel so empty insi…

Armored Female Warrior Anime, made with Kromoss AI
Armored Female Warrior Anime
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Armored Female Warrior Anime

A highly detailed anime illustration of a fierce female warrior with long flowing black hair and piercing blue eyes, wearing a mix of silver plate armor with gold trim and a blue and white tunic. She is captured in a dynamic combat stance, swinging a massive, segmented metallic w…

Gold Saints Card Grid Variant, made with Kromoss AI
Gold Saints Card Grid Variant
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Gold Saints Card Grid Variant

Generate a 12-grid card image of the 12 Golden Saints from Saint Seiya, with each card featuring its corresponding Chinese name, 4 cards per row, in a 16:9 aspect ratio.

Five Panel Collage Layout, made with Kromoss AI
Five Panel Collage Layout
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Five Panel Collage Layout

{ "type": "5-panel collage", "layout": "grid with 3 top panels and 2 bottom panels", "panels": [ { "position": "top-left", "subject": "analog clock", "details": "teal background, time showing {argument name=\"clock time\" default=\"7:42\"}", "style": "flat vector illustration" },…

Whiteboard Marker Drawing Photo, made with Kromoss AI
Whiteboard Marker Drawing Photo
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Whiteboard Marker Drawing Photo

A realistic photograph of a whiteboard with a highly detailed green dry-erase marker drawing of a samurai with a messy topknot and facial hair, hands clasped in prayer. The character is drawn in a detailed manga sketch style, shown in profile with eyes closed, wearing a tradition…

Character Portrait Grid, made with Kromoss AI
Character Portrait Grid
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Character Portrait Grid

{ "type": "character portrait grid", "theme": "{argument name=\"theme\" default=\"Game of Thrones characters\"}", "style": "{argument name=\"art style\" default=\"2D flat illustration, clean line art, comic style, profile view facing right, pale skin with blush\"}", "layout": { "…

Animal LINE Stickers, made with Kromoss AI
Animal LINE Stickers
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Animal LINE Stickers

Create 24 LINE stickers of animals in a quirky hand-drawn style. Target Japanese Gen Z with a trendy style that can aim for top downloads.

Mythology Avatar Grid, made with Kromoss AI
Mythology Avatar Grid
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Mythology Avatar Grid

{ "type": "character avatar grid", "theme": "{argument name=\"theme\" default=\"Journey to the West mythology\"}", "style": "{argument name=\"art style\" default=\"clean 2D cartoon vector illustration, thick outlines, flat colors\"}", "layout": { "background": "{argument name=\"b…

Three by Three Expression Grid, made with Kromoss AI
Three by Three Expression Grid
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Three by Three Expression Grid

{ "type": "3x3 character expression grid", "style": "{argument name=\"art style\" default=\"3D animation, Pixar style\"}", "character_base": "{argument name=\"character description\" default=\"young woman with voluminous dark wavy hair and round wire-rimmed glasses\"}", "common_t…

AI Builder Graffiti Sketch, made with Kromoss AI
AI Builder Graffiti Sketch
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AI Builder Graffiti Sketch

Express [a powerful AI builder] in a graffiti sketch style, presenting an overall visual effect of rapid sketching, free transformation, improvised hand-drawing, and draft-like qualities. Lines are casual, exaggerated, varied in thickness, slightly messy but rhythmic and expressi…

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Prompts and example images come from their creators via an open, MIT-licensed community prompt collection. Each idea page credits the original author and links to the original post. Prompts were lightly edited and images resized. Want an idea removed? Email support@kromoss.net.