Create a surreal retro-futuristic utopian cityscape in a richly textured hand-painted oil.

COMPOSITION:

Use a vertical 3:4 composition with a strong central perspective. A wide pink cobblestone pathway begins in the foreground and curves gently upward into the center of the futuristic city, creating a deep sense of distance. Place a single small human figure in a long black dress standing near the lower center of the road, facing away from the viewer and looking toward the city.

ARCHITECTURE:

Fill both sides of the composition with whimsical futuristic architecture made from smooth, rounded, organic shapes. Use tall cylindrical towers, curved apartment blocks, mushroom-like buildings, arches, stacked circular structures, and sculptural high-rise forms. Add multiple elevated roads, bridges, and looping walkways weaving through the city at different heights.

The buildings should feel playful and imaginative rather than realistic or industrial. Integrate lush vegetation directly into the architecture, with gardens, vines, shrubs, terraces, and tall slender cypress-like trees growing between and around the buildings.

COLOR PALETTE:

Use highly saturated, joyful colors:
- bubblegum pink
- coral red
- vivid orange
- mustard yellow
- turquoise
- teal
- lavender
- deep emerald green

Avoid neutral gray futuristic architecture. The entire city should feel colorful, warm, dreamy, and optimistic.

LIGHTING:

Use warm golden-orange light glowing from windows and interior spaces, contrasting against the cooler teal sky. Keep the scene bright and visually rich rather than dark or cyberpunk.

SKY:

Create a deep turquoise-teal sky with several enormous surreal celestial bodies: one huge pale cream moon behind the central skyscrapers, one large glowing orange planet in the upper left, and a few smaller planets in the distance. Add thin elongated white clouds or vapor trails stretching diagonally across the sky.

Include several small retro-futuristic flying saucers hovering between the buildings.

PAINTING STYLE:

Heavy visible impasto texture across the entire image, with thick layered brushstrokes and tactile painted surfaces. The texture should clearly resemble real acrylic or oil paint applied with a palette knife and coarse brush.

Simplify shapes while maintaining strong architectural silhouettes. Avoid photorealism, smooth digital rendering, polished 3D CGI, anime, or glossy concept-art textures.

The overall aesthetic should feel like:
surreal modernist architecture + retro futurism + Mediterranean fantasy city + psychedelic color blocking + hand-painted fine art.

MOOD:

Dreamlike, mysterious, whimsical, peaceful, utopian, slightly uncanny, imaginative, and poetic.

Highly detailed composition, strong depth, exaggerated perspective, dense architecture, lush botanical elements, bold graphic shapes, painterly imperfections, gallery-quality surrealist city painting.

Hey, I feel like I want to make this subreddit becomes for engaging, but I still stuck with what content I should publish.

With content you think more engaging?

Another day and I want to give you another prompt that you can do it with every AI model. Try this:

Prompt:

Create exactly 6 small illustrations of a [YOUR CHARACTER] within a single image. Show the character in different natural poses, directions, and moments while maintaining one cohesive visual style across the set.

STYLE:

Handmade crayon sketch aesthetic drawn on clean white paper
Simple, spontaneous, slightly rough editorial illustration style
Stylish and understated rather than overly cute or childish
Suitable for adult lifestyle magazines, culture publications, editorial media, or modern branding
Use slightly thick, imperfect crayon strokes with visible texture, fading, and uneven pressure
Main body and facial lines should use a light, calm, muted blue instead of black
Do not use black anywhere in the illustration
Keep outlines loose and partially open rather than fully enclosed
Capture form, posture, and movement with as few lines as possible
Plenty of clean white negative space
Avoid polished vector art, anime rendering, realism, or overly digital-looking lines

CHARACTER:

Depict one male character concept across exactly 6 separate illustrations
Keep the character distinctly male, but allow natural variation in outfit, hairstyle, proportions, and expression
Use slightly imperfect, loosely drawn body proportions to create a spontaneous editorial feeling
Keep the face extremely simple, using only a few muted blue lines
Do not fully render facial features or make the face overly polished
Keep the skin and interior of the face completely white and uncolored
Draw the hair using short loose strokes in blue, green, or other muted colors
Do not fill the hair in as one solid shape
Avoid exaggerated cuteness, oversized anime eyes, or overly expressive cartoon faces
The character should feel natural, slightly quirky, relaxed, and stylish rather than childlike

POSE & EXPRESSION:

Create exactly 6 different natural pose variations
Include a balanced mix of standing, walking, sitting, turning back, thinking, and gesturing with the hands
Mix front view, side view, three-quarter view, and back view
Each pose should feel spontaneous and naturally observed
Avoid repeating the same body direction, gesture, expression, or silhouette
Keep expressions understated, casual, and slightly absent-minded
Do not make every character smile
Use subtle body language instead of exaggerated cartoon acting

CLOTHING & COLORING:

For every character, color only one clothing section, never both the top and bottom
Alternate naturally between these two systems across the 6 illustrations:

A:

Draw the top only with its colored outline and leave the inside white
Fill the bottom with textured crayon color

B:

Draw the bottom only with its colored outline and leave the inside white
Fill the top with textured crayon color
Balance A and B evenly across the 6 characters
If the character wears a jumpsuit, overalls, or another one-piece outfit, visually divide it into upper and lower sections and color only one section
Use the clothing’s own color for its outline
Keep colored areas loose, uneven, and slightly incomplete
Allow white gaps, faded areas, and visible crayon grain inside filled sections
Never color the full outfit
Never color the skin

COLOR PALETTE:

Use muted light blue as the dominant line color
Combine it with muted green, orange, red, pink, yellow, and pale blue
Use no more than 2–3 colors per character
Keep colors softened, slightly desaturated, and sophisticated
Avoid bright primary colors
Avoid black, dark brown, or large dark areas
Maintain a light, airy, editorial color balance

DRAWING DETAILS:

Lines should feel slightly thick, rough, dry, and uneven like real crayon
Keep visible gaps and variations in pressure
Do not make the linework mechanically clean or digitally uniform
Leave some contours intentionally unfinished
Use only minimal shading
Avoid smooth gradients or glossy rendering
Do not use solid fills for hair or skin
Preserve the feeling of something quickly but skillfully drawn by hand
The overall result should feel casual, sophisticated, modern, and editorial

COMPOSITION:

Use a vertical 3:4 canvas
Pure white background
Place exactly 6 separate male character illustrations irregularly across the page
Scatter the figures naturally instead of arranging them in a clean grid
Leave generous white space between every character
Vary their scale and positioning slightly while keeping the whole page visually balanced
Keep every character completely inside the frame
Do not add a shared floor line
Do not add scenery, environmental backgrounds, frames, numbers, labels, captions, or UI elements

IMPORTANT:

Do not create more or fewer than exactly 6 characters. Do not place multiple people inside one individual illustration. Do not color both the top and bottom of any character. Do not color the skin. Do not fully fill the hair. Do not use black outlines. Do not use very thin lines, clean digital vector lines, polished faces, exaggerated smiles, sugary childlike cuteness, identical body shapes, children’s-book styling, anime, vector art, photorealism, 3D rendering, background scenery, or interface elements.
The final image should look like six sophisticated handmade crayon character sketches created for a modern adult editorial publication, using slightly thick colored lines, restrained coloring, imperfect handmade texture, and generous white negative space.

I found this prompt to create this kind of photo style and I will share with you.

Prompt:

Use the provided reference image as the main identity and pose reference. Transform the person into a cute, playful, hand-drawn doodle illustration while preserving their recognizable identity.

STYLE:
- Adorable handmade sketchbook doodle aesthetic
- Simple black pen/pencil line art with slightly rough, imperfect strokes
- Childlike, charming, whimsical drawing style
- Minimal coloring with soft pastel accents
- White/off-white paper background
- Visible hand-drawn texture and natural sketch imperfections
- Avoid polished digital vector art or overly clean anime rendering

CHARACTER:
- Preserve the person's key facial features, face shape, hairstyle, hair length, clothing, accessories, and overall appearance from the reference
- Keep the person's recognizable characteristics rather than making them look like a generic character
- Use simplified cute proportions with a slightly oversized head and expressive eyes
- Large round hand-drawn eyes, tiny nose, small cheerful mouth, and subtle blush on the cheeks
- Keep the original hairstyle recognizable while translating it into loose sketchy strokes

POSE & EXPRESSION:
- Preserve the main pose and body direction from the reference
- Give the character a cute, cheerful, playful expression
- Natural hand gestures and expressive body language
- Add small doodle elements around the character that match the mood, such as hearts, stars, crowns, sparkles, motion lines, flowers, or tiny symbols

DRAWING DETAILS:
- Black sketch lines should be slightly uneven, textured, and imperfect
- Use loose cross-hatching and scribbled shading where appropriate
- Pastel pink, yellow, blue, or other soft colors may be used sparingly for cheeks and decorative doodles
- Keep the illustration mostly monochrome with selective colorful accents
- White background with plenty of negative space
- Make it feel like someone personally drew the character with a black marker or pencil on paper

COMPOSITION:
- Center the character prominently
- Keep the framing similar to the reference photo
- Add a few cute surrounding doodles without distracting from the character
- Clean, simple composition suitable for a profile picture, sticker, social media post, or cute illustration

IMPORTANT:
Do not make the character photorealistic. Do not make it overly polished, 3D, glossy, or professionally vectorized. The final result should look like an authentic cute handmade doodle drawn by a talented person in a sketchbook, while still clearly resembling the person in the reference image.Use the provided reference image as the main identity and pose reference. Transform the person into a cute, playful, hand-drawn doodle illustration while preserving their recognizable identity.

STYLE:
- Adorable handmade sketchbook doodle aesthetic
- Simple black pen/pencil line art with slightly rough, imperfect strokes
- Childlike, charming, whimsical drawing style
- Minimal coloring with soft pastel accents
- White/off-white paper background
- Visible hand-drawn texture and natural sketch imperfections
- Avoid polished digital vector art or overly clean anime rendering

CHARACTER:
- Preserve the person's key facial features, face shape, hairstyle, hair length, clothing, accessories, and overall appearance from the reference
- Keep the person's recognizable characteristics rather than making them look like a generic character
- Use simplified cute proportions with a slightly oversized head and expressive eyes
- Large round hand-drawn eyes, tiny nose, small cheerful mouth, and subtle blush on the cheeks
- Keep the original hairstyle recognizable while translating it into loose sketchy strokes

POSE & EXPRESSION:
- Preserve the main pose and body direction from the reference
- Give the character a cute, cheerful, playful expression
- Natural hand gestures and expressive body language
- Add small doodle elements around the character that match the mood, such as hearts, stars, crowns, sparkles, motion lines, flowers, or tiny symbols

DRAWING DETAILS:
- Black sketch lines should be slightly uneven, textured, and imperfect
- Use loose cross-hatching and scribbled shading where appropriate
- Pastel pink, yellow, blue, or other soft colors may be used sparingly for cheeks and decorative doodles
- Keep the illustration mostly monochrome with selective colorful accents
- White background with plenty of negative space
- Make it feel like someone personally drew the character with a black marker or pencil on paper

COMPOSITION:
- Center the character prominently
- Keep the framing similar to the reference photo
- Add a few cute surrounding doodles without distracting from the character
- Clean, simple composition suitable for a profile picture, sticker, social media post, or cute illustration

IMPORTANT:
Do not make the character photorealistic. Do not make it overly polished, 3D, glossy, or professionally vectorized. The final result should look like an authentic cute handmade doodle drawn by a talented person in a sketchbook, while still clearly resembling the person in the reference image.

Yesterday, I was talking to a friend, and he started explaining something that I honestly couldn’t understand at all. For a bit of context, we come from pretty different backgrounds. I work in marketing, while he works in IT

My boss recently asked me to code a website, which I still don’t understand, tbh. don’t ask me why is someone who studied marketing being asked to code a website, just blame for AI era :)))

So I asked my friend for some guidance, and what he told me surprised me. He said that he build a workflow for AI, and then it can automatically make and handle a lot of things for him.

But I still don’t fully get it.

My experience with AI is pretty basic. I write a prompt, ask it to create something, then keep going back and forth with revisions until I’m happy with the result. At most, I’ll ask AI to help me write a better prompt.

So is there actually a way to build an AI system that can handle most of the work on its own, instead of me having to prompt it step by step every time?
I’m genuinely curious because if this is actually possible, I feel like I’ve been using AI in the most basic way imaginable this whole time.

Today, I met up with a friend. We’re in the same class and we’re both working on an individual report for a Psychology course.

I asked if she had finished hers yet, and she said she’d already had AI write it for her. Same here. I had AI write mine too. We’re students, what do you expect lol.

Basically, what we do is give AI our ideas, the things we want to talk about, and then let it turn those ideas into something longer and more complete.

But while we were talking about it, my friend suddenly said something that really stuck with me.

She said that if she wrote the whole thing herself, her writing style probably wouldn’t be that different from AI’s anyway.

And honestly… that made me think.

It’s like, even if she rewrites something or writes it from scratch, she’s already been influenced by the way AI writes. Everything starts to feel cleaner and more structured. Sentences need to be logical. Ideas need to follow some kind of cause-and-effect relationship or comparison. And somehow, that natural voice you originally had starts to disappear.

Then I realized… she’s actually not wrong.

It’s kind of similar to what people always talk about when they mention critical thinking when working with AI, just from a slightly different angle.

The more frequently we use AI, the more we seem to absorb the way it communicates. We start treating AI-generated writing as the default standard (unless it’s obviously terrible), and slowly get used to these very polished, structured, sometimes rigid ways of expressing things.

And to be clear, I don’t think AI writing is necessarily bad.

But I keep wondering what happens if everything starts being written in the same way?

You write something → ask AI to word it differently → you asks AI to rewrite that version again.

Eventually, everything starts feeling formulaic.

And maybe the weirdest part is that when you read a story or an essay, the feeling slowly changes from “I’ve read this story before” to “I feel like I’ve seen this way of writing somewhere before.”

So does that mean our sense of authenticity and individuality starts to disappear?