Chalk Pastel Figure

Illustration · Pastel · Figure

Recipe

The style is the recipe. The subject is yours.

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.

Make it yours

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

Prompt

A soft pastel drawing of a seated figure on toned paper. The figure is modelled with chalky directional strokes that let the paper grain show through, the face simplified almost to a mask with no detailed features, hands blocked in as shapes. Behind them, large flowing organic colour shapes in mint green, coral and lilac overlap without outlines. Matte chalk texture throughout, no blending to smoothness, visible stroke direction.

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.