Illustration Style Spectrum: The Same Scene from Realistic to Flat

Using the same scene description and the same model, this piece surveys the controllable range of illustration styles: realistic impasto, semi-realistic cel shading, geometric flat, and minimalist flat all share the same subject and composition, distinguished only by style, material, brushwork, and color-layer vocabulary. The goal is to give developers a prompt template they can reuse directly—fix the narrative content and switch only the style modifiers, and you get a series of images with consistent style and aligned composition. It suits style pitches for brand visuals, style previews before commissioning illustration work, and content workflows that need to produce illustration assets in sets. The work was generated by the Seedream 5.0 Pro text-to-image pipeline, at 2K resolution and 1:1 square format, making it easy to compare detail levels image by image.