With AI art generators, what you might create shouldn’t be limited by your artistic skills.

Let’s explore the best of them.

Minimalist designs ensure your images are stylistically simple.

Robot Hand Holding Paintbrush Over Colorful Canvas

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Black, white, and neutrals are popular.

If using multiple colors, they tend to be muted, soft tones.

Any text or additional elements are kept minimal, and the art usually speaks for itself.

creative illustration of a robot made entirely of puzzle pieces

It also uses a limited color palette, featuring only shades of purple throughout the image.

Surrealism

Surrealism-themed AI images usually feature imaginative, dream-like, and sometimes even bizarre or unsettling elements.

Surrealist art aims to jolt viewers out of their normal modes of perception.

Minimalist design in AI art

The image is typical of what you’d expect from the used prompt.

The surrealist version offers an uneasy and bizarre combination of a clock and a tree.

Cyberpunk and Steampunk

The steampunk style produces images that mix futuristic technology with 19th-century-style configs and tools.

simple image of clock and tree on a field

The cyberpunk style invokes images of futuristic urban environments and characters blended with a dystopian high-tech ambiance.

Expect simple backgrounds with bright colors and objects seemingly built from blocks rather than complex continuous shapes.

you could replicate the key elements of the Victorian style in your AI art.

An image of a tree and a clock using surrealism style

The Victorian style is characterized by ornate, opulent, and complex decorative elements.

Some key aspects include ornate furniture and interiors featuring detailed woodwork, carvings, inlays, and luxurious fabrics.

Asking the AI image generator to recreate the same image in the Victorian style produced the copy below.

Image of a girl holding a sword

These clean lines and symmetry create a sense of order and precision.

The repeating geometric patterns create minimalist, abstract visuals with a clear sense of order.

Asking the AI art generator to create the image using the geometric AI art style produces the image below.

A girl holding a sword in cyberpunk style

One Line Drawing

Simple line drawing can be summed up in three words; beauty in simplicity.

This style of art involves using a single unbroken line to create an entire artwork.

Notice how one continuous line is used to create the entire image?

A girl holding a sword in steampunk style

Backgrounds tend to be minimalistic or dreamlike.

Expressive hand gestures, poses, and perspectives help convey a characters personality and feelings.

Below is an optical art-throw in spiral createdusing the DALL-E image generator.

image of a cozy rustic kitchen

You could ask the AI art generator to, say, create a Victorian character in a steampunk scenery.

pixel art style modifier

image of a girl in the middle of a room with lots of furniture

victorian style image

victorian age suitcase

Image of a cute cat created by AI art generator

Image of a cute cat using the geometric ai art style

A photorealistic image of a beautiful girl ploughing a field

oil painting of a young woman plouging a field

single line drawing of a horse

Photorealistic Image of Man Riding Bike

An anime style image of an angry man riding a bike

optical ar created with Dall-e

rectangular optical art created with Dall-e