20+ Incredible Midjourney Prompts for Graphic Novels that Sell!
Visual examples, prompts and tips to take your graphic novels to the next level
Are you interested in generating passive income through generative AI art? Consider creating Graphic Novels with Midjourney.
With Midjourney AI-generated visuals, creators can craft captivating artwork for books, comics, and graphic novels, breathing life into characters and landscapes with unmatched creativity.
Today, I will bring you a variety of Midjourney prompts tailored for unique and stunning children’s book illustrations!
Midjourney, an AI image generator, distinguishes itself through its exceptional artistic approach, allowing you to craft an unparalleled realm of fantasy.
If you are starting, crafting the perfect prompt is challenging. So, here is a comprehensive guide and prompts to get you started:
🎨 Graphic Novels
Today, I’m excited to share 20+ fantastic Midjourney prompts for creating captivating graphic novels plus tips in crafting and integrating the prompts to align with your story.
Part One: Prompts and Tips
Part Two: Craft Graphics according to your story
Let’s get started!
✨ Part One: Prompts and Tips
1. Basic
Let’s start with some basics with simply one subject.
/Prompt: graphic novel, illustration, cute big fat tiger
📌Tip One: Keywords to Include
As seen above, adding the word “cute” may not be enough sometimes, so you may want to experiment with more words.
If you are creating for a younger group audience, try to include the following words
- Children’s book illustration
- Cartoon
- Book Illustration for < your audience >
Prompt: Children’s book illustration, cute big fat cartoon tiger
2. Disney Style
Using the word “ Dinsey” can add a bit of fantasy and dreamy vibe to the graphic
Prompt: Children’s book illustration, a group of animals the castle, pastel color, light pink and blue, Disney, diorama, cartoon, cute, clean background
📌 Tip Two: Atmosphere
Using various color palettes can have a direct influence on the visual mood of the graphic, as demonstrated in the example above. Besides specifying the exact color, you can also use a palette like:
- Colorful
- Contrasting Color
- Pastel Color
- Soft Color
- Vibrant and vivid color
- < Seasonal > color palette: Spring Color Palette
- < Festive > color palette: Christmas Color Palette
Here is another example with a soft color palette
3. Soft and Dreamy
Prompt: Children’s night chapter, soft color, and dreamy landscapes, harmonious composition, panoramic scale, birds-eye-view, illustrative
4. Vivid Digital Art
📌 Tip Three: Add Magical Terms
Graphic novels often involved elements of fantasy and imagination. You can try to add some magical terms like:
- Whimsical
- Illuminating
- Enchanted
- Dreamy
- Fantasy
- Mysterious
Prompt: A vivid digital art depicting a mysterious town with a group of whimsical animals, gathering under the moonlit sky and having a discussion
📌Tip Four: Add A Famous Illustrator or Artist
Incorporating the name of your preferred artist to achieve a distinct style.
5. Atey Ghailan
Atey Ghailan is a concept artist and illustrator known for his work on video games such as “League of Legends” and “The Last of Us Part II”.
Prompt: A bear wearing a hat, sitting beside the pond, fireflies in the woods, by Atey Ghailan
6. Beatrix Potter
Beatrix Potter was an English author, illustrator and natural scientist, best known for her beloved children’s books featuring animal characters
Prompt: A group of bears, in the woods, with a small villa, Beatrix Potter
6. Jon Klassen
Klassen’s books often explore themes of curiosity, friendship, and the beauty of simple moments.
His illustrations are minimalistic yet full of depth.
Prompt: A lion riding a bike in the forest, by Jon Klassen
7. Allie Brosh
Allie Brosh is a well-known American author, illustrator, and blogger. Her unique style combines simple drawings and witty narratives, which resonated with a wide audience.
Prompt: A boy and a girl in a hot air balloon in the forest,by Allie Brosh
8. Clement Hurd
Hurd’s distinctive artwork is characterized by its soft and comforting style, often featuring warm and muted colors.
Prompt: Children’s book illustration, a bear as an astronaut flying up to the galaxy, by Clement Hurd
9. Jon Burgerman
A contemporary British artist known for his playful and colorful artwork. He is particularly recognized for his doodle-style illustrations that often combine humor and pop culture references.
Prompt: A bear riding a bike in the wood, by Jon Burgerman
10. Keith Negley
Negley’s illustrations often explore themes of masculinity, emotions, and relationships in a unique and thoughtful way. His style combines bold lines and vibrant colors to convey complex emotions and narratives
Prompt: Monster boy with green monster house in the fog, Keith Negley, psychedelic illustration, intricate, mysterious nocturnal scenes
11. Jean-Baptiste Monge
Jean-Baptiste Monge is a French artist and illustrator known for his fantasy and folklore-themed artwork.
Prompt: Children’s book illustration, bunnies in the wood playing, vintage, watercolor, by Jean-Baptiste Monge
12. Victo Ngai
Victo Ngai is a talented artist and illustrator known for her stunning and detailed illustrations. Her work often combines traditional and digital techniques, resulting in captivating and imaginative artwork.
Prompt: Children’s book illustration, a magical unicron running around the castle, in the ocean, coral reefs, dreamy pastel color palette, splashing, by Victo Ngai
📌 Tip Five: Include An Art Style
An art style is always a great option to include in the prompt.
- Abstract
- Art Deco
- Art Nouveau
- Bohemianism
- Expressionism
- Fauvism
- Futurism
- Renaissance
- Surrealism
13. Fauvist Style
Fauvist Ar Style features vibrant and bold colors and was used non-representationally.
Prompt: Children’s book illustration, various animals in a tropical jungle, in the style of a fauvist-inspired palette, storybook-like, mischievous feline motif, playful use of texture
Check out this post for more styles to try
📌Tip Six: Niji Mode
Using the Niji Mode can give you a totally different style. Here is an example using the same prompt in Niji
14. Fauvist Style ( Niji Mode )
Prompt: Children’s book illustration, various animals in a tropical jungle, in the style of a fauvist-inspired palette, storybook-like, mischievous feline motif, playful use of texture — ar 1:1 — niji 5 — s 180
Niji Mode is a special model that specializes in anime. Niji V5 comes with a total of 3 more styles: Cute, Expressive, and Scenic.
If you are interested in learning more about anime style, I have provided tricks and prompt examples of each style in this list:
15. Fauvist Style ( Niji Mode — Cute Style)
Prompt: Children’s book illustration, various animals in a tropical jungle, in the style of a fauvist-inspired palette, storybook-like, mischievous feline motif, playful use of texture — ar 1:1 — niji 5 — s 180 — style cute
16. Niji Scenic Mode
Prompt: Interior of an underwater castle, with beautiful coral reefs around, with tropical fishes and sea turtles, beautiful lighting and shading, with sunlight shining through — ar 1:1 — niji 5 — s 180 — style scenic
If you are looking for more inspiration for creating a stunning scene, be sure to check out these 50 amazing prompts:
📌When using Niji Mode, incorporating Japanese animators is a good way to tailor the style.
17. Niji Style — Hayao Miyazaki
Co-founder of Studio Ghibli, a film and animation studio, and is widely regarded as one of the most influential and visionary filmmakers in the history of animation
Prompt: A group of animals in the wood, Hayao Miyazaki — ar 1:1 — niji 5 — s 180
📌 Tip Seven: Reference from a book or movie
Sometimes, it can be a reference from your favorite book or film.
18. “Where’s Wally” Style
Prompt: Children’s book illustration, a group of people wandering in Venice, where’s wally style
19. “Alice in Wonderland” Style
Prompt: Children’s book illustration, soft color palette, whimsical and dreamy landscapes, in the style of alice in wonderland, panoramic scale, birds-eye-view
✨ Part Two: Adding A Storyline
After gaining a comprehensive understanding of the visual inspiration and tips provided above, let’s see how we can integrate the prompts to align harmoniously with your narrative script.
By applying these prompts effectively, you can ensure a seamless integration of artistic elements that perfectly complement your story.
Story Breakdown
When you include a story, you can first craft a background or landscape, add the story in the middle and finish it with the vibe you are looking for. It can be the magical terms we use from tip two or simply a color palette
- Scene: Snow House in a Winter Wonderland Christmas Village with Igloo and fancy drafts and glowing animals, snow falling,
- Storyline: A little girl discovers that strange magical creatures have emerged deep within the woods. She begins to explore this mysterious world finding all sorts of enchanted animals like talking wolves, flying foxes and glowing deer
- Style/ Atmosphere / Color: Dreamy pastel color palette
📌 Writing AI Tools — Rytr
You can always use AI tools to help write a story like Rytr, an AI writing assistant tool to help.
It allows you to create a story plot just by inputting a story idea like
“A spaceship flying through an asteroid field with a starfighter battling against an alien”
Rytr will return you with a detailed story like the one below. Again, I break it down into three parts for you to see.
- Scene: A scene in space where the crew of the spaceship
- Storyline: The Star Explorer, had been warned about the treacherous asteroid field but was determined to traverse it to reach their destination. As they flew through the field, they were suddenly ambushed by an alien armada of ships, intent on capturing the Star Explorer
- Atmosphere or Color: Surreal digital art, otherworldly, dreamlike, abstract
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