Image Generation · sub-raceDominant lead
Illustration & Concept Art race
Painterly, editorial and concept-art styles with strong composition.
- Leader
- MJ V8
- Margin
- 40 Elo
- 3.0% ahead
- Weeks at #1
- 31
- in a row
- Changes
- 1
- in 2026
Warming up the track…
Oct 19, 2026MJ V8 leads
2025Apr ’25Jul ’25Oct ’252026Apr ’26Jul ’26Oct ’26
Score history
Top 6 today over the leader's frontier · click to jump to a week
#1 frontierMJ V8GPT Image 2Seedream 5Nano Banana 2.1FLUX.3 KleinIdeogram 4
Reigns at #1
Longest: MJ V7, 33 weeks (from Apr 2025).
Sibling races
More image generation races
Why this race matters
Style and composition are what art directors pay for.
How it is scored
Elo-style rating from blind votes.
Unit: eloHigher is betterPhoto finish under 4 EloDominant over 28 Elo
Data provenance
Votes on illustration and concept-art prompts.
Scores here are illustrative placeholders that mimic real benchmark patterns. Swap in live data through the score provider. Methodology