Crowd Pattern Painting

Illustration · Crowd · Pattern

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Crowd Pattern Painting, Hundreds of tiny figures painted into a texture rather than a scene — Crowd from above·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 painting of a dense crowd seen from directly above, hundreds of tiny figures filling the entire frame with no background visible. Each person is two or three brush marks, a dab for a head and a stroke for a coat, colours repeating in loose clusters of pink, teal and cream. No focal point, no perspective, the crowd reading as texture and rhythm rather than a scene. Visible brushwork throughout, matte paint.

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

Tips

1Two or three brush marks per person is the instruction that stops it rendering faces.
2No focal point, stated directly. Models want to build a subject.
3Colour repeating in clusters gives the rhythm.