Cubist Plane Portrait

Illustration · Cubist · Planes

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Head in planes·Seedream 4.5
Wide crop·Nano Banana Pro
Square version·Seedream 4.5
Vertical portrait·Seedream 4.5

Recipe

The examples above were generated with Seedream 4.5 and Nano Banana Pro. 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.

This recipe describes a treatment rather than a thing. Put your own subject in and it is added to the end of the prompt.

Prompt

A portrait assembled from large flat planes that overlap and slide against each other, each plane a single unmixed colour, so the head reads as a construction rather than a likeness. Features appear once or twice across different planes rather than in one place. Straight hard edges throughout, no shading, no outline, no blending, plain flat background. Bold modernist colour. Subject: a face turned three quarters.

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

  • 1Let features repeat across planes. One tidy face defeats the idea.
  • 2Straight edges. Curves make it decorative rather than cubist.
  • 3Unmixed colour. No plane should be a tint of another.

Things to try

Full figure

the body built the same way

Two heads

a pair sharing planes

Cooler

blues and greens only

Fewer planes

four flat shapes only

Still life

objects instead of a head

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