Blue Block Print Faces

Poster · Block Print · Faces

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Three carved faces·Nano Banana Pro
Wide panel set·Seedream 4.5
Square crop·Seedream 4.5
Panoramic version·Seedream 4.5

Recipe

The examples above were generated with Nano Banana Pro and Seedream 4.5. The recipes below are written for GPT Image and Flux, so treat the settings as a starting point rather than the exact run.

A description in plain sentences. This is the version to start with, and it works on any current image model. Settings below are the ones we used on GPT Image; treat them as a starting point.

This recipe describes a treatment rather than a thing. Put your own subject in and it is added to the end of the prompt.

Prompt

A modernist block print in one single blue ink on cream paper: several panels side by side, each holding one face reduced to a few carved shapes, a curve for a jaw, two simple ovals for eyes, a wedge of hair. Ink uneven and patchy where the block did not fully take. Positive and negative reversed between panels so some faces are blue on cream and others cream on blue. No lettering. Subject: three faces in profile and half profile.

The prompt gets you close. Feed one of the examples in as a style reference for the rest. Download the images

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Send the example as an input image to the images.edits endpoint alongside the prompt, or attach it in ChatGPT. It follows composition closely, so describe your subject firmly or it will copy the example.

Settings on GPT Image

Size
1536 x 1024
Quality
High
Background
Opaque
Output
PNG

Tips

  • 1Reversing positive and negative between panels is the whole trick.
  • 2Uneven ink coverage proves it is a print, not a vector.
  • 3Fewer shapes per face than feels right.

Things to try

Red ink

the same set in vermilion

One face

a single panel only

Two inks

a second colour on one panel

Figures

whole bodies instead of heads

Rougher

heavier carve marks

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