Styles: Art
Charcoal Drawing
Dramatic charcoal drawing aesthetic with deep blacks and soft smudging. Best for: Dramatic art content, drawing visuals, contrast storytelling.
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- Pick your model's tab — the JSON re-shapes itself to that model's block order and limits.
- Click any green value to edit it in place — swap the subject, setting, or style for your own.
- Copy and paste the JSON as your prompt in the tool — links below.
{
"camera": {
"angle": "dramatic composition angles",
"lens": "standard for charcoal texture",
"depth_of_field": "charcoal drawing focus"
},
"lighting": {
"type": "dramatic drawing light"
},
"style": {
"aesthetic": "charcoal drawing drama",
"color_palette": "charcoal blacks, paper whites, soft grays"
}
}- Veo 3.1 follows structured prompts unusually well — lock camera, lighting and audio as separate JSON fields and it respects each one.
- Native audio: describe dialogue, ambient sound and music directly in the audio field.
{
"camera": {
"angle": "dramatic composition angles",
"lens": "standard for charcoal texture",
"depth_of_field": "charcoal drawing focus"
},
"lighting": {
"type": "dramatic drawing light"
},
"style": {
"aesthetic": "charcoal drawing drama",
"color_palette": "charcoal blacks, paper whites, soft grays"
}
}- Kling 3.0 reasons about the scene like a director — write the action field as a shot note, not a keyword list.
- Multi-shot is the signature feature: split the action into "Shot 1: … Shot 2: …" inside the action field for cuts within one generation.
{
"camera": {
"angle": "dramatic composition angles",
"lens": "standard for charcoal texture",
"depth_of_field": "charcoal drawing focus"
},
"lighting": {
"type": "dramatic drawing light"
},
"style": {
"aesthetic": "charcoal drawing drama",
"color_palette": "charcoal blacks, paper whites, soft grays"
}
}- Seedance responds best to a strict block order: CAMERA → SUBJECT → ACTION → ENVIRONMENT → LIGHTING → STYLE. The JSON below is ordered to match.
- Keep the camera block to a shot type plus one movement — stacking movements degrades output.
{
"camera": {
"angle": "dramatic composition angles",
"lens": "standard for charcoal texture",
"depth_of_field": "charcoal drawing focus"
},
"style": {
"aesthetic": "charcoal drawing drama",
"color_palette": "charcoal blacks, paper whites, soft grays"
},
"lighting": {
"type": "dramatic drawing light"
}
}- Wan 2.2 is the latest version with genuinely open, downloadable weights. "Wan 2.5/2.6/2.7" are hosted API-only versions on commercial platforms.
- Open-weights Wan 2.2 has no audio track — drop the audio field or move sound design to post.
{
"camera": {
"angle": "dramatic composition angles",
"lens": "standard for charcoal texture",
"depth_of_field": "charcoal drawing focus"
},
"lighting": {
"type": "dramatic drawing light"
},
"style": {
"aesthetic": "charcoal drawing drama",
"color_palette": "charcoal blacks, paper whites, soft grays"
}
}- Runway exposes camera controls in the UI — use the camera block here as your settings checklist rather than prompt text.
- Gen-4.5 excels with reference images: the subject field doubles as your reference-tagging description.
Run this prompt
Copy the JSON above, then paste it as your prompt in any of these tools. Veo 3.1 is free to try inside Gemini (daily limit applies).
What each block does
| Block | Purpose |
|---|---|
| camera | Shot framing and movement. One movement per clip reads best on every current model. |
| lighting | Light source, quality and shadow behavior. The single highest-leverage block for realism. |
| style | Aesthetic direction: film stock, color palette, references, tone. |
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