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RetroFuturism
An illustration AI art style prompt drawing on Retrofuturism and Cyberpunk. Copy the prompt below into any text-to-image model, then add your own subject at the end. The prompt only describes the look.
On 4 models
The same prompt and the same subject, rendered by different image models — so the differences are the model, not the prompt.
The prompt
Original
In style of Patrick Nagel + Moebius (Jean Giraud) + Josan Gonzalez, where Nagel's crisp linework and bold flat colors should define clean contours and stylized shapes, Moebius's surreal sci-fi vision should shape the spatial structure and mood, and Gonzalez's cyberpunk detail should enhance the surface detail. The fusion should manifest as a sleek retro-futurist visual language with a graphic novel aesthetic
Render on BudgetPixel: FLUX 1.1 pro · GPT-Image-2 · Muse 1.0 · Nano Banana 2.1
Model-neutral
The same look with artist names and copyrighted references removed — for models that refuse them.
Crisp linework and bold flat colors define the forms and patterns, a surreal sci-fi vision shapes the structural volumes and mood, and cyberpunk detail enhances the surface complexity. The fusion should manifest as a sleek retro-futurist composition with a graphic novel aesthetic
Render on BudgetPixel: FLUX 1.1 pro · GPT-Image-2 · Muse 1.0 · Nano Banana 2.1
Effect only
The recipe removed — no artists, no wild card, no movements. Only what the style does to a surface.
Crisp, even-weight ink outlines enclose unmodulated, solid color fields, with no blending or gradients. Architectural forms curve, stack and twist in impossible perspectives, their surfaces covered in dense, fine mechanical detail and small glowing lights. Hard-edged shadows and high-contrast lighting separate foreground from background. The entire scene sits in a cityscape of sleek, vertical structures, rendered with the clean registration of a printed comic page.
Render on BudgetPixel: FLUX 1.1 pro · GPT-Image-2 · Muse 1.0 · Nano Banana 2.1
Using it
- Paste the prompt, then add your subject after it — for example …, a lighthouse on a cliff at dusk.
- The original names artists. Some hosted models refuse that or quietly render around it — on those, use the model-neutral version, which describes the same handling without the names.
- The effect-only version drops the recipe altogether and describes only what the style does to a surface. Use it to mix this look into another style, or when you want nothing traceable to a source.
- Every sample here was rendered against the same short subject — Quiet streets whisper / Her footsteps echo softly / Sunlight paints her path — so it shows the style, not a lucky subject.
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