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Cut Paper Figures

Illustration · Cut Paper · Figures

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Cut Paper Figures, People built from a handful of cut shapes, sitting among loose blobs of colour — Group of seated figures

Cut Paper Figures, People built from a handful of cut shapes, sitting among loose blobs of colour — Square crop

Cut Paper Figures, People built from a handful of cut shapes, sitting among loose blobs of colour — Vertical composition

Cut Paper Figures, People built from a handful of cut shapes, sitting among loose blobs of colour — Wide scene

Cut Paper Figures, People built from a handful of cut shapes, sitting among loose blobs of colour — Detail of the shapes

Recipe

The style is the recipe. The subject is yours.

GPT Image

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Updated 5 Aug 2026

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

Make it yours

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

Prompt

An illustration of four figures sitting and standing, each built from simple cut paper shapes with no outlines: a rounded head, a rectangular body, two strokes for legs, blank faces. Loose organic blobs of flat colour sit around them as furniture and plants. Bold slightly clashing palette of mustard, teal, coral and navy on cream. Everything flat, no shading, shapes overlapping cleanly.

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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.

Recommended settings

Size: 1365 x 1024
Quality: High
Background: Opaque
Output: PNG

Tips

1Blank faces. Adding features pulls it toward ordinary character illustration.
2Organic blobs rather than drawn objects for the setting.
3Let shapes overlap. That is what makes it read as cut paper.

Things to try

5 variations

Office scene

figures at desks made of the same shapes

Outdoors

trees and hills as blobs behind the figures

Single figure

one large figure filling the frame

Torn edges

the shapes torn rather than cut

Two colours

the whole scene in two inks

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