Corrupted Oil Painting

Illustration · Glitch · Data Loss

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Corrupted Oil Painting, A rural realist painting eaten away by pixel blocks and character noise — Figure lost to characters·Nano Banana Pro

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 quiet realist oil painting of rural life treated as though the file holding it had partly failed. The painted scene is unhurried and traditional, warm fields and plain buildings under an open sky, brushwork clearly visible. The human figures are punched out into flat white silhouettes filled with dense columns of small monospace characters. Rectangular blocks of the image are displaced sideways or repeated, and scattered squares of acid green and yellow sit where data has dropped out. The painting underneath stays completely legible. Full bleed, no frame, no border.

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: 1280 x 1024
Quality: High
Background: Opaque
Output: PNG

Tips

1The painting has to be calm and competent. Glitch over a weak painting just looks like a mistake.
2Silhouettes filled with characters, not faces made of text. The figure should be absent, not decorated.
3Keep the corruption to a few areas. Damage everywhere reads as a filter.

Overview

A quiet realist oil painting of rural life, farmhouses, fields, figures at work, treated as though the file holding it had partly failed. Figures are punched out into flat white silhouettes filled with dense columns of monospace characters, rectangular blocks of the image are displaced or repeated, and stray squares of acid green and yellow sit where data has dropped out. The painting underneath stays legible and unhurried, which is what makes the damage land.

Category: Illustration
Period: Contemporary
Recipes: GPT Image, Flux
Views: 235
Added: 18 Aug 2026