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Art Style Type

This SREF style blends elements of Neo-noir and Cyberpunk with strong Expressionist influences. It features dramatic light and shadow contrasts reminiscent of movie posters. Rather than pure realism, this style communicates emotion and atmosphere through exaggeration and distortion, creating a powerful visual impact.

Style Characteristics

The most prominent characteristic of this style is the bold use of color, particularly the striking contrast between red and green tones, creating an unsettling yet captivating atmosphere. The light and shadow treatment is highly dramatic, with pronounced contour lines and geometrized shapes that give the images a sculptural quality. Each image has a cinematic composition and storytelling ability, as if it were a single frame from a larger narrative. The texture has a slight roughness that adds a sense of raw power and emotional depth.

Style-Enhancing Prompt Keywords

  • Movie poster style: Pairing with this keyword enhances the dramatic composition and narrative quality, making character figures more iconic
  • Desaturated background: Using this can strengthen the contrast between foreground subjects and backgrounds, creating more layered visual effects
  • Diagonal composition: Adding this element enhances the dynamic feeling and tense atmosphere, elevating the overall visual impact

Recommended Application Scenarios

This style is particularly suitable for hardcore game art design, action movie posters, science fiction book covers, music album cover art, and any visual work that needs to express tension, mystery, or dystopian atmospheres. It's also well-suited for creating character designs with strong personalities, especially those with somewhat dark or complex backstories.

More Tips


You can explore further by combining the following command:

  • --sv: There are six versions of the Style Reference feature in Midjourney version 7 when using images. Use the --sv parameter to choose between them. --sv 6 is default. --sv 4 is the old V7 sref model (prior to June 16, 2025). Using --sv 6 and --sv 4 may produce different style results.
  • --s: Default value is 100, can be set from 0 to 1000. The higher the value, the more detailed the image, and the closer the style may be to reality.
  • -niji 6: Using this command will give the image a more anime style.
  • --sw: Default value is 100, can be input from 0 to 1000. A higher value makes the style closer to the original.
  • You can now blend multiple --sref codes together (for example --sref 123 456 )
  • You can weigh individual codes or urls as follows --sref 123::2
  • You can also read more guides on How to use SREF Code

Other Reference Code

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Example of an image generated using the prompt --sref 2162872416 in MidJourney
Example of an image generated using the prompt --sref 2162872416 in MidJourney
Example of an image generated using the prompt --sref 2162872416 in MidJourney
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Example of an image generated using the prompt --sref 1838970610 in MidJourney

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