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10 Expert-Level Image Prompts That Break the Rules — And Work Anyway
Ok. You’re Ghibli’d out. Now get creative.
Most people use AI image generators like they’re ordering from a menu. It’s make me a field of daisies. In a square format. With color.
It’s one, two, three, create.
But pros? Pros use them like instruments — bending rules, mixing metaphors, and coaxing the machine into surprising results. They understand that the best prompts aren’t always clean. They’re messy, paradoxical, contradictory, and maybe, sometimes, poetic.
And when everything else fails? Just throw in some B.S. to see what comes out. You can’t break anything. Might as well try some crazy.
Why Break the Rules?
They’re effing rules that’s why. Rules are limiting. They flatten creativity. Great prompts don’t just describe — they imply, suggest, evoke, distort.
They’re tools for thinking, not just for drawing.
So, here are 10 rule-breaking prompt styles that go beyond the basics — with detailed templates to help you push the boundaries of what’s possible.
