Coloured Pencil Portrait

Fashion · Coloured Pencil · Portrait

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 fashion sketchbook portrait with deliberately uneven finish: the face densely built from layered coloured pencil hatching in warm reds and cool blues, the clothing below left as loose unfinished contour line with only a few strokes of colour. Paper texture visible throughout, all marks directional and never blended smooth, the drawing stopping partway down the chest with bare paper around it. No lettering.

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.