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30 June 2026

10 Prompts for Viral AI Images

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A curated collection of high-quality AI image prompts designed to recreate your photos in unique artistic styles while preserving your identity. These prompts are written to generate clean, realistic, and visually striking results with consistent quality across different AI image models.

How to Use These Prompts

Before using any prompt, follow these guidelines to achieve the best results:

  • Upload a high-quality image of yourself.
  • Use a photo with a clear face and good lighting.
  • Avoid heavily filtered, blurry, or low-resolution images.
  • If a prompt requires a reference image, upload it as the second image.
  • Do not modify the prompts unless you want to customise the output.
  • These prompts are designed to preserve your identity, facial features, pose, and proportions while changing only the artistic style or scene.

1. Seeing Yourself Painted by Your Favourite Artist

What it does

Transforms your photograph into a beautiful artwork inspired by your favourite artistic style while preserving your facial identity, pose, and proportions.

Prompt

Prompt 1
Take the person from the attachment and recreate them in the style of the artist, while preserving their exact facial features, identity, and pose without distortion.

Place them in new background descriptions, such as a futuristic city, sunny meadow, or dark fantasy forest.

Ensure seamless integration with consistent lighting, shadow, and perspective.

Match the environment and maintain high-detail, realistic depth.

Make a full artistic composition for the chosen style.

The composition should feel cinematic, balanced, and visually rich, with ultra-detailed texture and an 8K-quality finish.

2. Comic Book Character

What it does

Converts your image into a premium graphic novel illustration while preserving every facial detail.

Prompt

Prompt 2
Transform the uploaded image into a premium comic book illustration.

Important requirements:

- Preserve the original person's identity, facial expression, pose, clothing, accessories, and background exactly.
- Do not modify facial structure.
- Do not add or remove any objects.
- Render the entire image using professional comic book illustration techniques including bold ink outlines, clean line art, detailed cross-hatching, cel shading, dramatic highlights, and vibrant colours.
- Preserve realistic proportions and likeness.
- The result should resemble artwork from a premium graphic novel.

3. Animated Fantasy Illustration

What it does

Transforms your image into a timeless hand-painted fantasy animation while preserving your identity.

Prompt

Prompt 3
Transform the uploaded image into a beautiful hand-painted fantasy animated illustration.

Important requirements:

- Preserve the original person's identity, facial features, facial expression, hairstyle, pose, body proportions, clothing, accessories, background, composition, framing, and camera angle exactly as they appear.
- Do not alter facial structure.
- Do not add or remove any objects.
- Preserve the original lighting, colours, perspective, and overall scene composition.
- Recreate the image using soft painterly brushstrokes, rich natural colours, delicate shading, expressive eyes, handcrafted textures, and warm cinematic lighting.
- Use detailed animated linework with gentle gradients and handcrafted cel-animation quality.
- Preserve realistic proportions and recognizable likeness.
- Fully re-render the background with atmospheric depth.
- Preserve the original aspect ratio and resolution.

4. Handcrafted Wooden Carving

What it does

Transforms your photograph into an intricate handcrafted wooden sculpture.

Prompt

Prompt 4
Transform the uploaded image into a finely handcrafted wooden carving.

Important requirements:

- Preserve the original person's identity, facial features, pose, clothing, accessories, background, and composition exactly.
- Do not alter facial structure.
- Do not add or remove any objects.
- Render every element as though meticulously carved from natural wood by a master artisan.
- Include realistic wood grain, carved textures, chisel marks, polished surfaces, and intricate handcrafted detailing.
- Preserve lighting and shadows while converting the artistic medium.
- The final artwork should resemble a museum-quality wooden sculpture or relief carving.

5. Tribute to Your Hero

What it does

Creates a premium editorial-style tribute poster inspired by someone's life and achievements.

Prompt

Prompt 5
Imagine you are a luxury graphic designer creating a conceptual tribute poster using a refined dual-exposure photo-crate composite style with mixed media texture for collectible wall art.

The centerpiece is a bold, high-contrast black-and-white portrait acting as both container and emotional core.

Inside the silhouette, create a dense mosaic grid showcasing defining moments, expressions, milestones, and achievements.

Requirements:

- Avoid flat placement.
- Apply halftone dots, canvas texture, poster paper texture, or screen-print effects.
- Add subtle film grain for depth.
- Keep the overall artwork monochrome while highlighting one image using minimal colour.
- Position the person's name in the top-left using Inter SemiBold with tight kerning.
- Add a subtle emblem in the top-right.
- Use an off-white textured paper background with generous negative space.

6. Photo with Your Favourite Celebrity

What it does

Creates a realistic Polaroid photo with your favourite celebrity.

Prompt

Prompt 6
Create a Polaroid-style photograph of the attached person with their favourite celebrity at a lively party.

Both subjects should stand naturally with their hands on each other's shoulders while smiling like close friends.

Requirements:

- Warm ambient lighting
- Authentic Polaroid paper
- Soft shadows
- Gentle film grain
- Slightly blurred party background
- Preserve the person's exact facial identity, proportions, and expression.

7. Get in the Group Photo

What it does

Places you naturally inside a professional group portrait.

Prompt

Prompt 7
Create a professional family portrait using the attached people together with the uploaded individual portrait.

Arrange everyone in a formal composition similar to the reference image.

Requirements:

- Black formal suits
- White shirts
- Ties or bow ties
- Wooden posing blocks
- Natural lighting
- Realistic facial features
- Correct proportions
- Natural expressions
- Photo realism

8. Recreate Your Favourite Image

What it does

Transforms your photo to perfectly match the style and composition of another image while preserving your identity.

Prompt

Prompt 8
Take the first attached person and transform them to match the style, composition, and aesthetic of the second attached image.

Preserve the facial features and expression proportions exactly.

Apply:

- Colour grading
- Lighting
- Background
- Mood
- Texture
- Clothing style
- Shadows
- Artistic effects

Mirror every visual detail faithfully while maintaining realistic proportions and seamless integration.

Focus on crisp details, consistent lighting, and accurate colour grading.

9. Watercolour Painting

What it does

Converts your photograph into a realistic traditional watercolour painting.

Prompt

Prompt 9
Transform the uploaded image into a highly realistic watercolour painting.

Requirements:

- Preserve identity
- Preserve facial expression
- Preserve composition
- Preserve clothing
- Preserve accessories
- Preserve background
- Do not crop
- Do not alter facial features

Use transparent washes, natural pigment flow, delicate colour bleeding, soft gradients, realistic paper texture, and vibrant colours while preserving every detail.

10. Ghibli-inspired animated illustration

What it does

Turns your photo into a Ghibli-inspired animated illustration

Prompt

Prompt 10
Transform the uploaded image into a beautiful Studio Ghibli-inspired animated illustration. Preserve the original person's identity, facial features, facial expression, hairstyle, pose, body proportions, clothing, accessories, background, composition, framing, and camera angle exactly as they appear.


**Transform the uploaded image into a beautiful Studio Ghibli-inspired animated illustration.** > > **Important requirements:** > > * Preserve the original person's identity, facial features, facial expression, hairstyle, pose, body proportions, clothing, accessories, background, composition, framing, and camera angle exactly as they appear. > * Do not alter facial structure or make the person look like someone else. > * Do not add or remove any objects. > * Preserve the original lighting, colours, perspective, and overall scene composition. > * Recreate the entire image in a hand-painted Studio Ghibli-inspired aesthetic featuring soft painterly brushstrokes, rich natural colours, delicate shading, expressive eyes, subtle textures, and warm cinematic lighting. > * Use detailed anime-style linework with gentle gradients and handcrafted cel-animation quality reminiscent of classic Japanese animated films. > * Preserve realistic proportions and the person's recognisable likeness while adapting only the artistic medium. > * Ensure the background is also fully re-rendered in the same hand-painted animated style with lush details and atmospheric depth. > * The final result should look like a high-quality frame from a timeless hand-painted animated feature, while remaining an unmistakable recreation of the original photograph. > * Preserve the original aspect ratio and resolution. This version avoids naming or closely imitating a specific living artist while aiming for the warm, hand-painted fantasy animation aesthetic that people commonly associate with classic Ghibli-style films.

11. Pencil Sketch

What it does

Converts your photograph into a realistic sketch painting.

Prompt

Prompt 11
Transform the uploaded image into a highly realistic pencil sketch painting.

Requirements:

- Preserve identity
- Preserve facial expression
- Preserve composition
- Preserve clothing
- Preserve accessories
- Preserve background
- Do not crop
- Do not alter facial features

Use transparent washes, natural pigment flow, delicate colour bleeding, soft gradients, realistic paper texture, and vibrant colours while preserving every detail.

Notes

  • These prompts work best with high-resolution photographs.
  • For prompts requiring a reference image, always upload your portrait first and the reference image second.
  • You can further personalise any prompt by changing the environment, colour palette, mood, lighting, clothing style, or artistic medium while keeping the identity-preservation instructions intact.
  • Save this collection for future AI image generation projects and reuse the prompts across compatible AI image models.