Blue Line Cityscape

Architecture · Cityscape · Line Drawing

Download examples
Panorama with cranes·Nano Banana Pro
Wide skyline·Seedream 4.5
Square crop·Seedream 4.5
Long horizontal view·Seedream 4.5
Detail of the windows·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.

The recipe is the style, not the picture. Put your own subject in and the highlighted part of the prompt changes.

Prompt

A city panorama drawn entirely in fine uniform blue pen on white paper: dense towers, construction cranes, an elevated road and thousands of small windows, all described with thin even line and no tone or fill anywhere. Obsessive detail at consistent line weight, so the skyline reads as a pale blue haze from a distance. A few faint pencil guide lines left visible at the edges.

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

Use the examples as a reference

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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 900
Quality
High
Background
Opaque
Output
PNG

Tips

  • 1One pen, one colour, one line weight. The restraint is the style.
  • 2Ask for guide lines left visible. It reads as a drawing rather than a print.
  • 3Cranes and overpasses give the skyline something to hang detail on.

Things to try

Harbour

container cranes and ships along a waterfront

Black pen

the same drawing in black instead of blue

One tower

a single building drawn at the same density

With one colour

a single red element among all the blue

Aged paper

the drawing on toned stock with a fold

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