Turn a character in your head into a detailed, reusable image prompt — face, mood, style, and all.
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The prompt
Help me prompt a portrait of a character.
Who they are: {{age, vibe, role, personality}}
Style I want: {{realistic / painterly / anime / 3D / etc.}}
Use: {{story / game / avatar / just for fun}}
Build: 1) THE DESCRIPTION BLOCK — face and age markers, hair, expression, clothing, palette, the 2-3 details that make them THEM. 2) THE MOOD — lighting and setting that convey their personality. 3) THE FULL PROMPT in [subject], [appearance], [expression/mood], [setting/lighting], [style tags], [aspect] form. 4) VARIATIONS — three emotions or angles. 5) THE CONSISTENCY TIP — what to keep verbatim so future images match. Make the personality visible, not just the features.
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Why this works
Generic character prompts produce generic faces; specifying the personality-revealing details and mood-through-lighting makes a portrait that feels like someone, and the consistency block lets you reuse them.
Shared by Theo Brandt — Designer-dad. Prompts for the life admin nobody warned you about.
Act as a commercial photography director planning a hero shot.
My product: {{what it is}}
Brand mood: {{3 adjectives — e.g. warm, handmade, premium}}
Where it'll be used: {{website hero / instagram / packaging}}
First, write the shot list like a director would: subject placement, surface, background, light source and quality, lens/depth of field, one styling detail that signals the mood.
Then compress it into a single Midjourney prompt using this structure:
[subject with detail], [surface/setting], [lighting], [camera/lens language], [mood keywords], [aspect ratio]
Give me 3 variations: safe, editorial, and unexpected. Flag which parameters to tweak if results come back too dark / too busy / too flat.
Help me write an image prompt for a product mockup.
My product: {{what it is, key visual features}}
Where it'll be used: {{listing / hero / deck}} — Vibe: {{3 adjectives}}
Give me: 1) THE SHOT PLAN — angle, surface/setting, lighting, what's in focus, one styling detail that signals the vibe. 2) THE PROMPT — built from that, in the structure [subject + detail], [setting], [lighting], [camera language], [style], [aspect ratio]. 3) THREE VARIATIONS — clean/minimal, lifestyle/in-use, and bold/editorial. 4) THE FIX-ITS — what to change if the result looks too flat, too busy, or fake. Optimize for 'I'd click buy', not 'pretty'.
My image prompt isn't working. Diagnose and fix it.
My prompt:
{{paste it}}
What I got vs. what I wanted: {{describe the gap}}
Tool: {{Midjourney / DALL-E / etc.}}
Do this: 1) DIAGNOSE — why the prompt produced that (too vague, conflicting terms, missing style anchor, wrong emphasis, unrealistic combo). 2) THE REWRITE — a cleaner version with the fix, keeping what worked. 3) WHAT EACH CHANGE DOES — so I learn, not just copy. 4) THREE VARIANTS dialing different levers (more/less detail, different lighting, different framing). 5) THE ONE PARAMETER most likely to close the gap. Teach me to fish.