11/11/2025
⚡️10 Prompts You SHOULD Be Using (and 10 You Absolutely Shouldn’t)
aka “Do as I say, not as I do, because I’m still over here feral in Canva at 3 AM.”
By Promptly AI Art Collective™ / d.wylie / 2025
🔮 10 Prompts You Should Be Using
These actually build skill, voice, and originality — not just dopamine.
1. “Describe this scene as if you were remembering a dream you half-forgot.”
→ Forces emotional detail and unique texture.
2. “Give me 3 visual interpretations of this theme: one literal, one surreal, one satirical.”
→ Expands range, not sameness.
3. “Reimagine this concept through the lens of my brand’s tone: [insert your voice, not someone else’s].”
→ Keeps your work from sounding like a prompt marketplace clone.
4. “Show me what this would look like if it were found footage from 1997.”
→ Context > complexity. Vintage rules.
5. “Write the image caption first, then build an image that would earn it.”
→ Storytelling > spam-prompting.
6. “Take my last piece and remix it as a new aesthetic genre.”
→ Forces evolution, not repetition.
7. “Replace every trend-word in this prompt with something human, flawed, or local.”
→ Turns generic AI sludge into something you could actually post.
8. “Explain why this prompt works before generating it.”
→ Makes you think like a creator, not a slot machine user.
9. “Build a visual that disagrees with this caption.”
→ Conflict = art.
10. “Add one mistake on purpose.”
→ Perfection is boring. The glitch is the soul.
🚫 10 Prompts You Should NOT Be Using
Because I’ve used them, regretted them, and seen 5 million others do the same.
1. “A masterpiece in the style of Greg Rutkowski.”
→ Babe, so has everyone else since 2022.
2. “Ultra-realistic cinematic portrait of a beautiful woman with perfect lighting.”
→ Translation: nothing new to say.
3. “Trending on ArtStation.”
→ Congrats, you just told the model to copy homework.
4. “Award-winning, professional studio, high-quality 8K render.”
→ It’s giving LinkedIn résumé energy.
5. “Cyberpunk cityscape at night, neon lights, rain.”
→ The Canva background of the AI world.
6. “Prompt inspired by Wes Anderson.”
→ Unless you are Wes Anderson, stop it.
7. “In the style of [insert living artist who’s probably exhausted].”
→ Do not be that person.
8. “Make this go viral.”
→ That’s not a prompt. That’s a prayer.
9. “Generate 50 ideas for me.”
→ Lazy input = lazy output. You’ll hate all 50.
10. “Whatever’s trending on TikTok AI art right now.”
→ You’re better than a hashtag. (Even if I’m not.)
💀 Final Thoughts
If you want to stand out, stop sounding like a settings panel.
Prompt like you mean it — like you’ve got dirt under your nails and an opinion about saturation levels.
Because the algorithm doesn’t need another masterpiece. It needs a meltdown with composition.