Creating Consistent Image Prompts with Style Recipe Metaprompts
One of the most frustrating aspects of AI image generation is that it’s so hard to get consistent results. You generally have to have some kind of metaprompt that keeps track of all the many many details that go into the image. But what about a metaprompt that generates these? A meta metaprompt, if you will.
Style Recipes
A while back I came across someone shilling their way to create reusable character designs using what they called a style recipe, which is just a dumbed-down way of saying image metaprompt. I’ve long been using heavily styled metaprompts to create consistent image prompts, so this was right up my alley. I definitely wasn’t going to give them money, so I used the example as a template to reverse-engineer my own version.
The Style Recipe Creator
I came up with a smooth metaprompt to help create these style recipes. Give it a style, as in-depth as you want, and it will spit out a metaprompt that you can use to create images in that style. I don’t really do character design, so it’s more optimized for making a series of images that fit a vibe. Feel free to tweak it to your style of image prompting.
Prompt to Style Recipe Examples
Space Obelisks
abstract geometric style, photographing alien objects in space with a space camera
# Abstract Geometric Space Photography Illustration Directives
## Style System: Abstract Geometric Space Photography
**Mood:** surreal, alien, mysterious
### Visual Look
* Crisp geometric forms floating in void-like environments
* Hard edges mixed with translucent, glowing surfaces
* Scale ambiguity—shapes appear massive, like cosmic megastructures, or tiny like drifting dust
* Strong contrasts of light and shadow as if lit by distant stars
* Occasional lens-like distortions, as though captured by futuristic optics
### Character Design
* No humanoid figures; "characters" are alien geometric objects themselves
* Objects may suggest intelligence or construction without showing mechanisms
* Compositions framed as though taken by a probe or deep-space satellite camera
### Facial Features
* Not applicable (forms are faceless); expression emerges from geometry, angle, and lighting
### Color Palette
* Deep black and navy voids as background
* Accents of iridescent metallics, neon cyan, magenta, and spectral highlights
* Occasional washes of cosmic golds or cold whites for depth
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## Composition & Layout
* Use **ample spacing on all sides**, with no visual crowding.
* Scene elements (if any) must match the overall style — no photoreal polish of natural objects.
* Avoid stiffness or formality; embrace asymmetry and strangeness.
---Abstract geometric space photography of a monumental black obelisk suspended in a navy void. Around it, thin concentric neon rings drift like halos, their edges bending with optical distortion. The obelisk’s surface alternates between matte void and shimmering metallic facets. Cold white light creates stark contrasts across the form.
Abstract geometric composition of irregular polygonal shards rotating in orbit around an unseen core. Surfaces gleam metallic violet and neon cyan, while edges fade into transparency. The scene feels like a probe photo of an alien megastructure drifting through deep navy space, with asymmetrical spacing and lens distortions.
Abstract space photography of translucent crystalline sheets folding inward like a collapsing veil. Surfaces glow with faint magenta and spectral gold, edges hard and precise, yet semi-transparent. Background is a pure void with subtle star glimmers, the geometry lit dramatically as though from a hidden star.
Street Graffiti
photorealistic images of spray paint, stencils, graffiti. on concrete or metal. photographed with dynamic lighting.
# Photorealistic Graffiti Illustration Directives
## Style System: Photorealistic Graffiti
**Mood:** raw, urban, high-contrast
### Visual Look
* Hyper-detailed textures of concrete, brick, or metal
* Spray paint pigments with drips, overspray, and rough edges
* Sharp stencil cutouts with layered depth
* Strong directional lighting with dramatic shadows
* Slight imperfections: grime, scratches, weathering
### Character Design
* If figures appear, they should be life-like, dressed in casual/urban clothing
* Realistic human proportions, full detail in clothing textures
* Postures natural and candid, as if captured mid-action
### Facial Features
* Realistic skin tones and lighting effects
* Expressive, candid, documentary-style photography feeling
### Color Palette
* Bold, high-saturation spray paint hues (neon pinks, acid greens, deep blues)
* Strong contrast against muted, gritty urban surfaces
* Occasional metallics (silver, chrome) for stencil effects
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## Composition & Layout
* Use **ample spacing on all sides**, with no visual crowding.
* Graffiti should feel organically placed—no floating graphics.
* Surfaces (walls, trains, metal shutters) must feel grounded in reality.
* Lighting: angled, dynamic, with highlights and shadows that emphasize texture.
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Wide panoramic shot, low tripod angle, long exposure with car headlights streaking faintly in the distance. Scene: underside of a freeway overpass, pillars of cracked concrete stained dark with water. Graffiti covers every surface: layered tags in bold reds and purples, overlapping stencil silhouettes of birds and broken chains. Lighting: sharp cold fluorescence from overhead fixtures, bouncing off puddles on the ground. Details: faint steam rising from a manhole, spray can left on the ground, grit and broken glass glimmering.
Photorealistic, shot with a DSLR at golden hour, lens flare across frame. Scene: flat rooftop of a mid-rise building with concrete barrier walls. Background: city skyline blurred in bokeh. The graffiti: a collage of tags layered over time—faded black outlines, fresh neon orange throw-up, drips of turquoise still wet. A stencil of a human face, half-finished, catches the last glow of sunlight. Details: peeling stickers, tar stains, rooftop antenna casting a long shadow across the wall.
Medium-format film look, wide angle from low crouch. Scene: the side of an old freight train car, rusty bolts and rivets catching morning sun. Harsh raking light emphasizes texture. The graffiti: a sprawling mural in acid green and electric blue, sprayed in wildstyle letters with luminous highlights. Metallic chrome outlines shimmer in contrast. Small stencil silhouettes of rats run along the bottom edge. Details: scratches in the paint, dust on the ground, faint fog in the distance for atmosphere.
Lisa Frank Hellscape
Lisa Frank hellscape with a slight 90s VR vibe, where there are fractals or repeating surfaces. make stuff look like a skin in an old 3d shooter where it’s bad texture wraps. give lots of examples of accessories, animals, objects. maybe some slight data moshing or glitches but only in portions. things should look rendered separately and spliced.
# Lisa Frank Hellscape Illustration Directives
## Style System: Lisa Frank Hellscape
**Mood:** uncanny, synthetic, over-saturated, fractured
### Visual Look
* Neon gradients and pastel rainbows, but mapped like old video game textures—wrapping incorrectly, stretched, or mirrored
* Fractals, checkerboards, and endlessly tiled surfaces creating “infinite” fake worlds
* Partial data-moshing or glitch artifacts, especially on background elements or edges of objects
* Scene elements look like they were rendered separately and spliced together: mismatched scales, hard cutouts, overlapping transparencies
* Environments reminiscent of mid-90s VR demos or old shooter maps—flat walls plastered with rainbow tiger textures
### Character Design
* Lisa Frank animals (kittens, dolphins, unicorns, pandas, bears, puppies, dolphins, leopards, penguins, toucans, flamingos)
* Characters sometimes duplicated or mirrored, like copy-pasted sprites
* Poses are exaggerated, cheerful, and frozen—sometimes “floating” without proper grounding
* Outfits and accessories absurdly excessive: roller skates, jelly shoes, boom boxes, oversized sunglasses, slap bracelets, CD players, bubble backpacks, star-shaped wands, neon visors
### Facial Features
* Oversized glossy eyes reflecting rainbow “lens flare” shapes
* Smiles stretched unnaturally wide, too many teeth subtly implied but not gory
* Expressions never change regardless of scene context, creating eerie detachment
### Color Palette
* Ultra-bright neon hues: hot pink, lime green, electric blue, acid yellow, deep purple
* Pastels used only for contrast, often clashing with brights
* Black gridlines or wireframes occasionally visible, like untextured 3D geometry poking through
* Small glitches or color-channel offsets in selective areas
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## Composition & Layout
* Scenes should feel assembled from separate layers that don’t quite align—cutouts and floating objects that overlap unnaturally
* Surfaces and skies repeat like wallpaper textures, suggesting infinite fake space
* Rainbows, stars, and hearts overpopulate the scene until it feels suffocating
* Perspective bending—rainbows or surfaces bending at impossible angles, like old VR maze games
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### Expanded Accessories / Objects List for Maximum Creepy Cheer:
* Neon roller skates with visible pixel seams
* Cassette players, CDs, floppy disks, Game Boys
* Giant lollipops, bubblegum machines, soda cans with rainbow labels
* Backpacks shaped like stars, hearts, or dolphins
* Rainbow keyboards, CRT monitors with smiley faces on screen
* Geometric props: floating cubes, spheres, low-poly pyramids textured in rainbow tiger stripes
* Stickers plastered onto every surface: stars, hearts, lightning bolts, yin-yang signs, peace symbols
* Inflatable furniture, jelly shoes, mood rings, Tamagotchis
---Twin kittens, mirrored like sprites, perch on a floating inflatable chair patterned with rainbow tiger stripes. Their fur shimmers in acid green and hot pink gradients, and both hold giant lollipops that glitch at the edges. The background is a warped rainbow maze wall, textures stretched until they fracture, with bubblegum machines and CD players pasted across the surface like stickers.
A flamingo with mirrored wings stands in a candy-colored void where the ground is nothing but endlessly tiled hearts and stars. an Oversized pair of sunglasses hovers on its head, each reflecting a burning rainbow horizon. soda cans with rainbow labels scatter across the scene, their edges jagged like bad cutouts. The flamingo’s fixed smile and glossy eyes gleam against a backdrop of fractured pastel rainbows.
A cluster of panda cubs, duplicated and mirrored, float in midair against a backdrop of endless pastel checkerboard. Their proportions are exaggerated—tiny bodies with enormous glossy eyes. Each panda clutches a giant bow that dwarfs its head. The background is suffocating with neon hearts and shooting stars layered on top of each other, filling every space. Sparkles rain down in a density that feels overwhelming, as though the whole frame is collapsing under sweetness.
Conclusion
Enjoy the prompt!
