Prompt library · Fantasy art
Ten tested prompts for epic scenes — dragons over storm-lit peaks, floating cities, ruined libraries swallowed by roots. Every card shows the unedited artwork, the model behind it and the price.
Fantasy fails when it is generic, so the fix is specificity in three places: the subject, the scale cue and the light. Instead of “epic dragon fantasy art”, write “a slate-grey dragon perched on a shattered stone tower, wings half-folded, two tiny figures on the bridge far below, backlit by a storm-lit sky”. The two tiny figures are doing the most important work in that sentence — a sense of scale is what makes fantasy feel epic, and the model will not invent one unless you ask. Silhouettes against sky, a lone traveller at the foot of a gate, birds crossing a canyon: pick one and name it.
Then choose a medium and stick to it. “Digital painting with visible brushwork”, “matte painting, muted palette”, “ink and wash with limited colour” and “cinematic concept art, volumetric light” pull the same scene into four different worlds. Naming the medium beats naming an artist — it is more reliable, it doesn't imitate a living person's style, and it gives you a look you can repeat across a whole series. All ten images below are unedited first outputs generated on BananaBanana.
Nano Banana Pro is the one to reach for when a scene has to hold together at scale — a dragon's wing membrane against a bright sky, a city of a hundred lit windows, atmospheric depth through layers of cloud. It renders complex lighting without turning detail to mush, which is exactly where cheaper models start to smear.
Nano Banana 2 handles most single-subject scenes just as convincingly at half the cost, and Nano Banana 2 Lite at $0.03 is genuinely good for stylised, flatter work — ink and wash, limited palettes, silhouette compositions. The practical workflow is to draft ten compositions on Lite for thirty cents, then re-run the two that work on Pro. The prompts transfer between all three models unchanged, so nothing is wasted.
Every image below is the unedited output of the prompt on its card — no cherry-picking across dozens of attempts, no retouching. The model badge shows exactly what generated it and what it cost.
Cinematic fantasy concept art of an enormous slate-grey dragon perched on a shattered stone watchtower above a range of black peaks, wings half-folded, steam rising from its flanks. Two tiny armoured figures stand on the rope bridge far below for scale. Storm light breaks through heavy cloud behind it, rain sheeting across the valley. Muted palette of iron grey, deep teal and one shaft of amber, volumetric light, painterly detail.
Epic matte painting of a city built on three floating islands linked by long suspension bridges, waterfalls pouring off the lowest island into cloud. Thousands of warm lit windows in pale stone towers, airships the size of insects circling the highest spire. Dusk, deep indigo sky with a band of rose light on the horizon. Wide cinematic composition, atmospheric haze between layers, immense sense of scale.
Fantasy digital painting of a narrow path winding through an ancient forest of colossal moss-covered trees, their roots arching over the trail like doorways. Shafts of green-gold light fall through the canopy; drifting motes of pollen catch the beams. A single cloaked traveller walks away from the viewer, dwarfed by the trunks. Rich greens and warm ochres, visible brushwork, hushed and wondrous.
Fantasy concept art of a vast abandoned library with a collapsed domed ceiling, shelves five storeys high, thick tree roots pouring through the broken masonry and books scattered across a flooded marble floor. Cold daylight streams through the hole in the dome and reflects in the shallow water. Dust suspended in the light. Muted stone and moss palette, painterly, melancholy grandeur.
Fantasy matte painting of a colossal freestanding stone gate half-buried in red desert sand, carved with weathered spiral patterns, standing alone under an enormous sky. A caravan of three riders approaches from the right, tiny against the structure. Late afternoon sun, long blue shadows across the dunes, warm ochre and dusty rose palette, wide cinematic framing.
Fantasy landscape painting of a black stone fortress built into the face of a glacier, its towers wreathed in blowing snow, a frozen waterfall to one side. Aurora ribbons of green and violet across a star-heavy night sky. A single window burns warm orange in the highest tower. Cold blue palette with one warm accent, crisp icy detail, epic and lonely.
Fantasy illustration of a crowded night market in a canyon city, hundreds of paper lanterns strung between carved rock facades, stalls of fruit and copperware glowing under them, steam rising from a cauldron. Figures browsing in cloaks and layered robes, seen from a raised stairway. Warm amber and deep violet palette, painterly, bustling and alive, no readable text on any sign.
Dramatic fantasy seascape: a vast pale sea serpent arcing out of grey ocean swell beside towering basalt sea cliffs, spray exploding where its coils break the surface. A small sailing vessel heels over in the foreground, sails half-furled. Overcast storm light, spray haze, restrained palette of slate, foam white and sea green. Cinematic wide shot, tremendous scale.
Fantasy landscape in ink and wash on textured paper: layered mountain silhouettes fading into mist, a pagoda-like tower on the middle ridge, a lone crane crossing the empty sky. Limited palette of black ink, warm paper tone and a single wash of indigo. Loose confident brushstrokes, large areas of empty space, quiet and meditative.
Fantasy concept art of a colossal stone statue lying half-submerged in a still lagoon, only the shoulder, arm and weathered face above the waterline, vines and pale flowers growing from the cracks. Two small boats drift beside the hand. Flat morning light, mist on the water, muted sage and stone palette, silhouette-led composition, serene and enormous.
A traveller, a boat, two figures on a bridge — a known-size object is what turns “a big castle” into an overwhelming one. Fantasy scale is a composition trick, not an adjective.
“Ink and wash on textured paper”, “matte painting with atmospheric haze”, “digital painting with visible brushwork” all steer the look reliably and repeat across a series. Copying a living artist's name is both less predictable and worse practice.
“Iron grey, deep teal and one shaft of amber” looks composed; a scene left unconstrained comes back rainbow-lit. One warm accent in a cold scene is the oldest trick in concept art and it still works.
Ten compositions on Nano Banana 2 Lite cost about thirty cents. Re-run only the keepers on Nano Banana Pro, where wings, crowds and layered cloud actually hold together.
10 promptsTen tested prompts spanning the genre — neon cyberpunk, hand-painted 90s film stills, mecha, magical girls, cozy slice-of-life and city pop. Each card shows the unedited result and the model behind it.
Browse prompts
10 promptsTen tested prompts for cover artwork by genre — thriller, literary fiction, cozy mystery, space opera, self-help — each composed with clear space for typography you set yourself. Unedited outputs, model and price on every card.
Browse prompts
7 promptsSeven tested prompts for Veo 3.1 and Gemini Omni Flash — aerials, macro slow motion, neon tracking shots and native-audio dialogue. Every clip on this page is the unedited output of the prompt above it.
Browse promptsHow to keep the same hero across a whole series of scenes.
Read the guideUse a finished fantasy still as the first frame of a clip.
Read the guideWhy scene-first prompts beat stacks of quality keywords.
Read the guideYes, you own the images you generate on BananaBanana, including for commercial projects. If you're publishing on a storefront or platform, check its own AI-disclosure rules — several marketplaces now ask you to label generated assets at upload.
Generate the character once, then use that image as a reference in the editor and describe the new scene around them. Re-prompting from scratch gives you a different person each time; editing from a fixed reference is what holds a face and costume steady across a series.
Almost always because the prompt names a genre instead of a scene. “Epic fantasy dragon, highly detailed, 8k” describes a category. “A slate-grey dragon perched on a shattered watchtower, two figures on the bridge below, backlit by storm light” describes an image — and the model can only paint the second one.
16:9 for cinematic wides like the ones here, 3:4 for character-led pieces and book illustration, 9:16 if it's headed for a phone screen. The prompt stays the same; only the framing instruction and the aspect change.
Yes — a finished still can be used as the first frame of a Veo 3.1 or Gemini Omni Flash clip, so the dragon breathes and the rain moves while the composition stays exactly as you painted it. Clips start from $0.10 on BananaBanana.
Every new account starts with a free $0.20 balance — enough to test six image prompts before paying anything. No subscription — top up with crypto from $1 or a card from $20.