/slop/ styles and perspectives repository

▶ Assorted /slop/ styles

1980s high fantasy gouache painting by brothers Hildebrandt

1970s fantasy art, oil painting

Dungeons and Dragons, Conan the Barbarian style, comic book

Faded oil painting, style of a fantasy book cover circa 1985

dark fantasy art, acylic painting

1980's anime ova style dark fantasy line art

Japanese anime impressionist, detailed and intricate illustration, soft watercolors

a grainy cel-shaded highly-detailed reference photo of <x>, 90's anime

hand drawn, watercolor, pen, fantasy, illustrated by Akihiko Yoshida and Junko Kawano, anime, video game concept art, colored

PC Engine adventure game on a CRT

concept art for Darkest Dungeon, digital color drawing in the style of Mike Mignola, dark fantasy ambiance, eyes in shadow, [character description], [background description (optional)]

atmospheric, mike mignola artstyle, mild colors, high quality dark fantasy painting with thick black outlines, low color saturation, line threading, and sharp edges

▶ Basic styles

woodcut
etching
embroidery
oil painting
watercolour
acrylic painting
black&white ink
<game engine> screenshot
<decade> movie (poster)
album cover (genre or decade)
illuminated manuscript
baroque/renaissance/dadaist painting
pixel art
circa <year>
Kodachrome (or other film type)
low quality film

▶ Perspectives

Eye Level Shot
Low Angle Shot
High Angle Shot
Hip Level Shot
Knee Level Shot
Ground Level Shot
Shoulder Level Shot
Dutch Angle Shot
Overhead Shot
Aerial Shot

▶ /slop/ prompts

Strategy Guide

a page from a videogame strategy guide

Monster manual

Highly detailed watercolor concept art, sketches, book page, scientific drawings, text at top of page reading "[Subject Name]", larger central colored image of [Subject Description], [Background description], bookmark, Monster Manual

Tabletop miniature

A highly detailed plastic wargame miniature professionally painted in bright colours standing on a small base. <Character prompt> It stands on a gaming table.

Tarot card

stylized <arcana name> tarot card "<number>" written on the top, "<arcana name>" is written, <arcana name> tarot card, colored, <description>.

darkest dungeon style (inconsistent)

in the style of a character from darkest dungeon. he is in the ruins, facing to the right, heavy shadows. Screenshot of "darkest dungeon" on PC.

Character sheet:

a high quality full-view top-to-bottom D&D character sheet with a small portrait space showing a <description>, name is "<name>", many roleplaying game stat blocks and several scrawled words

classic BnW D&D style

High contrast. Dark lighting. Black and white pulp magazine illustration 1960's. Photocopy dithering

HOMM1 style

heroes of might and magic 1 low resolution retro DOS screenshot pixel art

Chibi

chibi anime art style

Monster Manual 2:

Highly detailed watercolor concept art, sketches, book page, scientific drawings, larger central colored image of [creature description], text at top of page reading "Creature Name", bookmark, Monster Manual

▶ Eastern Retro Artist style pack (with thanks to anon)

70s-80s

masamune shirow - manga style but also glossy, colourful and hyperrealistic, digital but like an oil painting - good for near future scifi, mechs etc

akihiro yamada - light colours with strong linework, try pencil crayon, coloured pencil or inked watercolour - trad fantasy

hitoshi yoneda - same overall style as akihiro yamada - mixture of trad fantasy and scifi

mamoru nagano - more overtly manga style, ink & watercolor or pencil crayon I think, mention "five star stories" which is his masterpiece - mixture of fantasy/scifi

jun suemi - painted, I think acrylic but possibly oil, did a lot of book covers so maybe mention that - trad fantasy

shinobu tanno - near identical to jun suemi

tomomi kobayashi - colorful, manga style, light colours, watercolour, did the SaGa series (e.g. SaGa Frontier) so maybe worth mentioning - trad fantasy

inomata mutsumi - style is pretty cutesy like shoujo manga, watercolour & ink - modern fantasy/scifi,

yoshitaka amano - neo gothic style with some manga, watercolour and ink almost exclusively, very colourful but colours are muted/faded - fantasy and near-future scifi

80s-90s

yoshiaki kawajiri - neo gothic, heavy manga look, strong linework, loves big scowling faces - guy who did Vampire Hunter D Bloodlust, Ninja Scroll and the Escaflowne Motion Picture (watch these movies if you haven't), also the best Animatrix short

ayami kojima - neo gothic, more sketchy style with either pencils or inks - famous for the Castlevania games, mention Symphony of the Night

kinu nishimura - sketchy style, mention pencils, sketch, coloured - one of the main Street Fighter artists, esp SFIII: Third Strike

akihiko yoshida - sketchy style, pencils and inks - the final fantasy tactics, vagrant story, tactics ogre guy, so mention those

kentaro miura - sketchy, detailed, pencils and inks, "dark fantasy", "scan/screenshot of berserk"

norihiro yagi - very similar sketchy detailed manga like miura but maybe better for cute ladies, "scan/screenshot of Claymore"

"screenshot of"

record of lodoss war
vampire hunder d: bloodlist
escaflowne motion picture / a girl in gaia
jin roh the wolf brigade (modern near future scifi)