SREF codes
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Observations
Across all four renders, the style is built from dense, visibly worked oil-paint surfaces, with broad directional strokes, scraped highlights, and heavy textural variation. Muted ochres, browns, creams, and blacks create a moody, high-contrast atmosphere around crowded masked or animal-like figures, producing an expressive, uncanny blend of portrait, tableau, and fantasy imagery.
Look terms
Style qualityDetailed8,113Expressive3,403
TechniqueBroad brushstrokes896Painterly3,807
Colour schemeHigh contrast5,516Moody1,748Subdued2,732
GenreSurreal3,262
ThemeFantasy2,623
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 .
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