Style Prompts Without the Artist's Name: Three Ways It Breaks, and the Fixes

Naming a living illustrator in a prompt is the lazy way to get a style — and it makes the model forge their signature. I spent 126 images on Krea 2 Raw trying to describe a style without naming anyone. It failed three distinct, reproducible ways, each with a specific fix. Here's the failure map, the seed replication, and the prompt that finally worked.