Measurement of the creative ability of domestic AI painting tools with national style

China style, national trend and ancient style are the most commonly used styles by domestic creators, but the performance of overseas AI painting tools in this regard has not been satisfactory. Domestic AI painting tools have natural advantages in Chinese cultural understanding, oriental aesthetics, and national style elements. Based on industry measured data, this paper comprehensively evaluates the national style creation capabilities of mainstream domestic AI painting tools.

Evaluation standards and testing methods

We have designed test cases specifically created for national customs, covering 5 core dimensions:

1. Accuracy of cultural elements: correctness of traditional buildings, costumes, utensils, and symbols
2. The degree of restoration of oriental aesthetics: artistic conception, blank space, ink and wash feeling, color aesthetics
3. Character image expression: restoration of oriental faces, temperament and charm
4. Details richness: details of patterns, materials, light and shadow
5. Understanding Chinese prompt words: understanding of Chinese descriptions, poems, and allusions

The test cases include five categories: ancient characters, landscape ink, Chinese architecture, national trend illustrations, and traditional utensils, with a total of 30 standardized prompts.

Measured comparison of mainstream tools

Key findings: Domestic tools are comprehensively leading the field of national style creation, and their comprehensive scores are 15-20% ahead of overseas tools. Dream AI performs well in all dimensions and is the best choice for current national style creation.

Dream AI: The ceiling of national style creation

As an AI painting tool under ByteDance, Jimeng AI's performance in the field of national style is amazing.

Core advantages measured

1. Oriental character image perfect restoration

This is the biggest advantage of Jimeng AI. The oriental characters it produces have very authentic facial features, temperament and charm, and do not have the sense of discord of "oriental people in the eyes of Westerners" like overseas tools.

Measured data:

• Oriental face accuracy rate: 95%
• Restoration rate of ancient costumes: 94%
• Correctness of hair and makeup: 92%
• Character temperament consistency: 93%

Compared with the ancient characters generated by Midjourney, Western faces with high noses and deep eye sockets often appear, or problems such as mix and match of costumes and wrong shapes, that is, Dream AI has almost zero errors in this regard.

2. The artistic conception of ink and landscape is excellent

Jimeng AI has a very deep understanding of traditional China ink painting and can accurately grasp the blank space, blooming, and artistic conception of ink painting.

Comparison of measured cases:

• Enter "Ink and landscape, lonely boat coir man, fishing alone in cold river rivers"
• Dream AI: Accurately restore the texture of ink and wash, leave space appropriately, and have a long-term artistic conception, in line with traditional China aesthetics
• Midjourney: More like oil painting, with strong colors, lack of blank space, and completely wrong artistic conception

Blind test by professional painters: That is, ink works generated by Dream AI, 85% of professional painters believe that they have reached the level of entry-level Chinese painters.

3. Chinese architecture and utensils are accurate

China traditional elements such as pavilions, cornices and arches, bronzes, porcelain, and jade, namely Dream AI, can be accurately restored.

Measured data:

• Correct rate of ancient building shape: 92%
• Restoration of traditional utensils: 90%
• Accuracy of pattern details: 88%

Actual use case: A certain national style illustrator has fully turned to Instant Dream AI for commercial creation. She said that in the past, when Midjourney used to paint ancient styles, it would be good if 1 out of 10 pictures could be used. Various mistakes in costumes, buildings, and faces would take a long time to correct in the later period. Now with Instant Dream AI, 7-8 out of 10 pictures can be used directly, and the workload of later modifications has been reduced by 80%. The customer satisfaction of the business orders she received using Instant Dream AI increased from 70% to 95%, and the number of orders received doubled.

The unique functions of Jaiman AI

1. Optimization of Chinese prompt words

Dream AI's understanding of Chinese is the best of all tools. You can use poems, idioms, or even Internet hot words to describe it, and it can all be understood accurately.

Actual measurement case:

• "Elegant as a breeze, graceful as a swimming dragon"-Accurately restoring the artistic conception of Cao Zhi's "Luo Shen Fu"
• "The desert is lonely and the smoke is straight, and the long river is setting sun is round"-perfectly presenting the picture sense of Tang poetry
• "The Master in White in Fairy Drama"-Accurately capturing the aesthetics of popular culture

2. National style exclusive model

Jimeng AI has multiple specialized national style models built in:

• Ancient style portraits: specially optimized ancient costume characters
• Ink landscape: Specially optimizing traditional ink painting
• National Trend Illustration: Modern National Style and Commercial Style
• Gongbi Flowers and Birds: The Style of Gongbi Painting in the Song Dynasty

3. Connect with the cutting ecology

The generated pictures can be directly imported, cut and reflected, and made into dynamic videos and digital human content with one click. This is an advantage that other tools do not have.

Literary Heart: First Choice for Commercial

Wenxin Yige is an AI painting platform owned by Baidu and has performed well in the commercial application of national style.

core advantages

1. Clear copyright and business peace of mind

This is the biggest advantage of Wenxin Yige. All generated pictures have clear commercial authorization, so corporate users can use them with confidence.

2. Excellent national trend style

Wenxin Yige performs particularly well in modern national trends and new Chinese styles, making it very suitable for commercial design.

Application scenarios:

• E-commerce products national trend packaging
• Brand national style vision
• Festival Marketing Poster
• creative product design

3. Improved enterprise-level services

Support team collaboration, API access, and customized training, suitable for batch use by enterprises.

limitations

• Pure art and pure ink are not as good as Dream AI
• The characters are conservative and have little change
• Slow generation speed

Tongyi Wanxiang: Ali's first choice for ecology

Tongyi Wanxiang is an AI painting tool owned by Alibaba and is deeply integrated with Alibaba Cloud Ecosystem.

core advantages

1. E-commerce scenario optimization

It is especially suitable for the national handling of e-commerce product maps, model maps, and scene maps.

2. Strong batch generation capabilities

Support batch API calls, suitable for e-commerce users who need to generate a large number of pictures.

3. Integration with design tools

Connect with tools such as Luban and Draft Design to directly use them for e-commerce design.

Pain points of overseas tools

Many people are still superstitious about overseas tools, but in the field of national style creation, the problems with overseas tools are very obvious:

Pain point 1: Wrong cultural understanding

• Painting Hanfu into kimono or Hanbok
• The ancient building has the wrong shape, and the cornices have become Gothic
• Traditional utensils are decorated with crowns and plums
• Poetry and allusions are completely misunderstood

Pain point 2: Character image is inconsistent

• Oriental figures painted as mixed-blood faces
• Wrong temperament, lack of oriental charm
• Ancient costumes are dressed like modern fashion

Pain point 3: Differences in aesthetic systems

• Ink painting becomes oil painting texture
• Blank space becomes full of content
• The colors are thick and gorgeous, which does not conform to the oriental aesthetics

Measured data: The shape error rate of ancient characters generated by Midjourney is as high as 65%, which means that two-thirds of the pictures have obvious cultural errors.

Advanced skills for national style creation

Prompt word formula

Standard formula for national style reminders:

[Subject Description] + [Style] + [Dynasty/Period] + [Technique] + [Composition] + [Image Quality] + [Negative Words]

Example:

Ancient costumes beauty, Han costumes, Tang Dynasty, fine brushwork style, beautiful women's pictures, exquisite makeup, elegant silk, palace background, fine brushwork heavy color, mid-scene composition, 8K HD, high quality
Negative words: modern clothing, Western faces, deformity, blurring

Scenario prompt template

Ancient style portrait:

Young woman, Han clothes, Wei and Jin style, long hair, picturesque eyebrows, white clothes, bamboo forest background, mottled light and shadow, meticulous brushwork style, blank space, long-term artistic conception

Ink landscape:

Ink landscape painting, Huangshan Sea of Clouds, Welcome Pine, Waterfall, Blank, Blooming, Mi Fu landscape style, rice paper texture, appropriate ink shade, far-reaching artistic conception

National Trend Illustration:

National trend style, China dragon, auspicious cloud pattern, red and gold color matching, modern graphic design, vector style, smooth lines, rich details, commercial illustration

Chinese architecture:

Forbidden City corner tower, snow scenery, dusk, light and shadow, ancient buildings, arched eaves, red walls and yellow tiles, symmetrical composition, film texture, rich details

Guide to avoiding pits

1. Don't use English prompts: Domestic tools use Chinese prompts 10 times better
2. Clarify the style of the dynasties: Don't just talk about "ancient customs", talk about "Tang Dynasty","Song Dynasty" and "Ming Dynasty"
3. Specify specific techniques: "meticulous brushwork","ink painting","freehand brushwork" and "green landscape". The more specific the better
4. Add negative words: Be sure to add negative words such as "modern clothing, Western faces"

Business application scenarios and ROI analysis

The application of national style AI painting in the commercial field is very mature:

Scenario 1: Cultural and creative product design

Traditional method: Hand-painted by designers, a design takes 3-7 days, and costs 2,000 - 5,000 yuan
AI method: AI generation + fine-tuning, one design takes 2 hours, and costs less than 100 yuan
ROI: Cost reduction by 95% and efficiency increase by 20 times

Scenario 2: E-commerce Vision

Traditional method: shooting + retouching, a set of product pictures is 5,000 - 20,000 yuan
AI method: AI generation scenario + product synthesis, 500 yuan for a set of pictures
ROI: Cost reduction by 90%, cycle changes from 1 week to 1 day

Scenario 3: Game art

Traditional method: The original painter paints a standing painting, and each standing painting is 3,000 - 10,000 yuan
AI method: AI generation + refinement, 500 yuan per drawing
ROI: Cost reduction by 90%, production capacity increased by 5 times

Practical use case: A cultural and creative company uses AI to design national style cultural and creative products. In the past, 5 designers made 100 products a year. Now 2 designers +AI make 500 products a year, design costs drop by 60%, new product launch speed increases five-fold, and sales increase by 200%.

the findings and recommendations

In 2026, the conclusion of national style AI painting is very clear:

Draw national style and use domestic tools

This is not a national sentiment, but a real effect gap. In the field of national style creation, domestic tools are at least one generation ahead of overseas tools.

Selection suggestions:

• Personal creator/illustrator: Dream AI (free, best effect)
• Enterprise commercial/brand design: Wenxin (clear copyright, complete service)
• E-commerce users: Tongyi Wanxiang (e-commerce optimization, batch generation)
• Professional in-depth users: Stable Diffusion + National Style LoRA (the most flexible)

Suggestions for creators:

1. It would be a waste of time to immediately give up using overseas tools to draw national customs.
2. Make full use of Instant Dream AI, it is currently the best national style tool
3. Learning traditional China cultural knowledge is the core competitiveness of you and AI
4. AI is the tool, and cultural heritage is the soul

Finally, remember: AI can draw beautiful pictures of national customs, but it does not understand the culture and history behind it. Really good national style creation requires a deep understanding of China culture, which AI can never replace.