Painterly SREF Style Guide for Midjourney
Painterly SREF code
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How to Use This Painterly SREF Code
Step 1: Find Your Style
Browse our extensive styles list and find the perfect style reference for your project.
Step 2: Copy the Code
Click the "Copy" button to get the SREF code. It's as simple as --sref XXXXX.
Step 3: Create Your Prompt
Combine your prompt with the SREF code. Don't forget the aspect ratio! e.g., --ar 16:9
What is Painterly SREF style
This aesthetic emphasizes bold, visible brushstrokes and rich surface texture, creating an authentic, hand-painted appearance reminiscent of oil or acrylic studies. Forms are often slightly simplified or expressive, focusing more on the interplay of light and color masses than photorealistic detail. When employing this **style** in **Midjourney**, users can generate evocative images that mimic traditional fine art techniques. To effectively integrate this quality into a **prompt**, specifying thick paint application or impasto ensures the resulting output retains a deliberate, artisanal texture.
Painterly Prompt Ideas
- A serene mountain landscape reflecting in a calm lake, visible thick brushstrokes, vibrant autumn colors, painterly
- Close-up portrait of a fashionable woman with green eyes in a garden, bold expressive strokes, impressionistic color palette, painterly
- Still life of antique scientific instruments on a wooden desk, strong texture, warm studio lighting, painterly illustration
- A whimsical, retro-futuristic cityscape viewed from a high balcony, simplified forms, highly textured surface, painterly