87 AI Prompts for Illustration

Reimagine the attached photo as {{medium}}.

Keep: the composition, the position and proportions of every main element, and the overall perspective. Someone who knows the original should recognise it instantly.

Change: the rendering only. Redraw every surface in the new medium, with visible marks that belong to it, such as brush strokes, pen lines, paper texture, or print grain.

Style: {{palette}}, simplified detail in the far background, confident handmade quality rather than a filter laid over a photo.

Light: keep the original light direction, translated into the new medium.

No text, no signature, no border.

The front of a greeting card in portrait format.

Subject: {{illustration}}, centered slightly above the middle.

Layout: the illustration takes the upper two thirds. The message sits beneath it, centered, with wide margins all around.

Exact text: "{{message}}" in a relaxed hand-lettered script. No other words.

Style: {{style}}, palette of {{palette}}, on textured cream card stock. Handmade and warm, nothing clip-art.

Light: flat, as if the card were scanned.

A front cover for a novel in portrait format.

Subject: {{genre-scene}}, composed so the main figure is small against a large landscape.

Layout: the title sits in the upper third in large type. The author name sits at the bottom in smaller type. The illustration runs full bleed behind both, with calm areas of sky or ground under the text so it stays readable.

Exact text: the title reads "{{title}}" in an elegant high-contrast serif. The author name reads "{{author}}" in widely spaced small capitals. No other words, no quote, no badge.

Style: painterly literary fiction cover, textured brushwork, palette of {{palette}}.

Light: low dusk light from the horizon, long shadows.

A letter-learning coloring page.

Subject: {{animal}}, drawn large and friendly.

Layout: portrait page. A big hollow outline capital letter in the top left corner. The animal in the centre. The word in hollow outline capitals along the bottom.

Exact text: the letter is "{{letter}}". The word reads "{{word}}". Both drawn as thick hollow outlines that can be colored in. No other text.

Style: black outlines on white, thick uniform line weight, rounded simple shapes, big closed areas, no shading, no grey, no solid black fills.

Light: none.