Sculpted Marble Bust Portrait
Stable DiffusionSculpted Marble Bust Portrait is a tested Stable Diffusion SDXL 1.0 prompt for profile pictures work. It runs at Stable Diffusion SDXL 1.0 · Aspect ratio 3:4 · Steps 30 · CFG scale 6.5 · Sampler DPM++ 2M Karras, and ships below with the exact prompt text, usage notes, and 2 pasteable variations.
Last tested: July 2026 with Stable Diffusion SDXL 1.0
Part of the Stable Diffusion prompt library · see more photorealistic prompts .
How to use this prompt
Marble reads as marble only when the light rakes it — "single-window light raking across the surface" catches the chisel marks and subtle veining that a flat frontal light would erase. Push the negative prompt to ban "painted skin" and "colorful", because SDXL's instinct is to slip back toward a realistic complexion and ruin the stone illusion. "Fine chisel detail" and "polished marble veining" give it the carved-not-rendered texture. A deep shadow behind sells the museum-gallery gravitas. Keep it monochrome white; the moment color creeps in, it stops looking like sculpture.
Variations to try
- Weathered antiquity — 'chipped and aged stone, moss in the crevices'
- Black marble — 'polished obsidian-black stone, gold-leaf accents'
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For developers — copy this prompt as JSON
{
"title": "Sculpted Marble Bust Portrait",
"prompt": "A classical white marble bust portrait of a person, carved stone texture with fine chisel detail, dramatic single-window light raking across the surface, deep shadow behind, museum gallery mood, subtle veining in the polished marble, timeless and elegant",
"negative_prompt": "colorful, painted skin, plastic, low quality, deformed, text, watermark, cartoon, flat lighting",
"model": "Stable Diffusion",
"model_version": "SDXL 1.0",
"settings": {
"aspect_ratio": "3:4",
"steps": 30,
"cfg": 6.5,
"sampler": "DPM++ 2M Karras"
},
"style_tags": [
"photorealistic",
"moody"
],
"use_case_tags": [
"profile-pictures",
"wall-art"
],
"source_url": "https://promptkoi.com/prompts/stable-diffusion/sculpted-marble-bust-portrait/"
} The whole library is available as an open JSON dataset · developer docs.