Clear Line Desert

Illustration · Bande Dessinee · Clear Line

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Rock stacks and a figure
Wide desert
Square crop
Panoramic view

Recipe

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Updated 8 Aug 2026

Full sentences. Describe the scene, then the medium, then the flaws you want kept in.

The recipe is the style, not the picture. Put your own subject in and the prompt updates.

Prompt

A vast empty desert in the European clear line comics tradition: rock stacks, scattered boulders and low scrub, every form drawn with the same thin unvarying contour line and filled with flat unnatural colour, violet ground beneath an ochre and turquoise sky. One tiny figure standing in the middle distance for scale. No cross hatching, no rendered shadows, no texture, only outline and flat fill. Strange and calm.

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Recommended settings

Size
1536 x 1024
Quality
High
Background
Opaque
Output
PNG

Tips

  • 1Unvarying line weight is the definition of clear line. Say it plainly.
  • 2Unnatural colour. Realistic desert tones make it an illustration of a place.
  • 3One small figure. It gives the emptiness a scale.

Things to try

Night

the same desert under two moons

Canyon

the figure walking a ravine

Green

an overgrown version

Ruins

strange architecture in the sand

Close

the figure large in frame

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