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Sculpted Marble Bust Portrait

Stable Diffusion
By Varun Sharma Tested with Stable Diffusion SDXL 1.0

Sculpted 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

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Classical white marble bust portrait with chisel detail under dramatic raking window light
Sculpted Marble Bust Portrait — Stable Diffusion SDXL 1.0, Aspect ratio 3:4

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

Settings

Model
Stable Diffusion SDXL 1.0
Aspect ratio
3:4
Steps
30
CFG scale
6.5
Sampler
DPM++ 2M Karras

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.