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SREF codes

ScratchlightTested!

Scratchlight style, Midjourney V8.2, render 1 of 4
Scratchlight style, Midjourney V8.2, render 2 of 4
Scratchlight style, Midjourney V8.2, render 3 of 4
Scratchlight style, Midjourney V8.2, render 4 of 4

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Observations

Across all four renders, the style uses highly detailed black-and-white ink drawing with thick contours, dense crosshatching, and stark tonal reversals. Expressive bearded figures and urban or watery settings are composed with dramatic perspective and energetic, scratchy marks, giving the images a graphic-novel intensity.

Look terms

Colours

Earlier versions

Same code, different picture. Midjourney changed how it reads SREF codes after V6.1, so V8.2 turns this code into a new style. The old one still works: add  or .

Applications

Similar styles

Dave Sim style (Illustrators), Midjourney V8.2
Illustrators
Tom Toles style (Illustrators), Midjourney V8.2
Illustrators
Crosshatch Borough style (SREF codes), Midjourney V8.2
Frans Masereel style (Printmakers), Midjourney V8.2
Printmakers
Wally Wood style (Illustrators), Midjourney V8.2
Illustrators
Katsuhiro Otomo style (Illustrators), Midjourney V8.2
Illustrators