Stable Diffusion XL artists list

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This is a controlled comparison of 1,731 artist styles for Stable Diffusion XL: every artist was rendered with the same four prompts and one fixed seed per prompt, a character, a portrait of a woman, a landscape and a house, changing only the name after "by".
The differences you see between two rows are the artist token alone, nothing else.
Click an image to enlarge it, or copy the artist tag straight into your prompt.

1 a character
2 portrait of a woman
3 a landscape
4 a house

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The 5 artists most used in Stable Diffusion prompts

The five artists below are the ones most often named in the 1,749 prompts published on this site (82 documented prompts and the community gallery), out of 115 distinct artists cited. Counts are the number of prompts naming the artist; click a name to see its four samples, and search any other name in the list below.

#	Artist	Prompts	Who	What the name brings to the image
1	Greg Rutkowski	23	Contemporary digital painter (Poland)	Epic fantasy lighting, painterly brushwork, dramatic skies; the most copied token of the SD 1.5 era.
2	Makoto Shinkai	18	Japanese anime director, 2000s–	Hyper-detailed skies, lens flares, saturated blues and sunset gradients, city backgrounds.
3	Studio Ghibli	18	Japanese animation studio, 1985–	Soft cel-shaded anime look, lush green landscapes, warm nostalgic palette.
4	Andrey Remnev	15	Contemporary Russian painter	Icon-like flat figures, ornate patterns, muted gold and red palette, stylised portraits.
5	Bjarke Ingels	13	Danish architect, 2000s–	Bold geometric architecture, terraced volumes, clean renders; the go-to token for buildings.

Add by <artist> at the end of a prompt to apply a style; combine two names for a blend. Read how to write a prompt and why the seed is fixed in this comparison.

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