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Style #239 · Illustration · Steampunk, Retrofuturism

An illustration AI art style prompt drawing on Steampunk and Retrofuturism. Copy the prompt below into any text-to-image model, then add your own subject at the end. The prompt only describes the look.

The blend

The prompt combines 2 ingredients and gives each one a job:

• Yulia Brodskaya — Brodskaya's quilled paper coils create mechanical gear patterns that amplify industrial elegance.
• Jean-Marc Côté — Côté's retro-futuristic precision produces brass-toned paper layers that heighten Victorian innovation.

The fusion manifests as dimensional papercraft with metallic gradients and gear-patterned quilling, preserving original subjects and settings.

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

Yulia Brodskaya + Jean-Marc Côté, where Brodskaya's quilled paper coils create mechanical gear patterns that amplify industrial elegance, and Côté's retro-futuristic precision produces brass-toned paper layers that heighten Victorian innovation. The fusion manifests as dimensional papercraft with metallic gradients and gear-patterned quilling, preserving original subjects and settings.

Quilled paper coils create mechanical gear patterns that amplify industrial elegance, and retro-futuristic precision produces brass-toned paper layers that heighten Victorian innovation. The fusion manifests as dimensional papercraft with metallic gradients and gear-patterned quilling, preserving original subjects and settings.

Layered paper rises into crisp dimensional relief, with tightly wound coils arranged as interlocking gears and fine mechanical filigree. Brass-toned metallic gradients sweep across cut edges and stacked planes, while precise contours, clean registration, and controlled shadows clarify every component. Highlights accent raised rims and polished surfaces, preserving recognizable subjects and settings beneath the intricate engineered construction.

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.

Tags

CategoryIllustration

MovementsSteampunkRetrofuturism

ArtistsYulia BrodskayaJean-Marc Côté

TechniquesQuillingPapercraftMetallic GradientsPaper Layering

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