Dotwork Line Illustration
Illustration · Dotwork · Stipple
Recipe
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.
The recipe is the style, not the picture. Put your own subject in and the highlighted part of the prompt changes.
A fine outline drawing of a mountain range on white paper, each peak filled with a different hand made pattern: dense dots, short dashes, cross hatching, tiny circles, wavy lines. No tonal shading anywhere, form described only by which pattern sits where. Thin even black line, small simple clouds above, mostly white page. Two peaks picked out in flat pale blue and one in red.
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
Download the examplesSend 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
- 1536 x 960
- Quality
- High
- Background
- Opaque
- Output
- PNG
Tips
- 1A different pattern per shape is the whole technique. List a few by name.
- 2No tonal shading, stated plainly.
- 3One or two small colour accents, no more.
Things to try
Forest
trees each filled with a different pattern
Cityscape
buildings patterned instead of shaded
Single object
one everyday object given the full treatment
All blue
the drawing in blue pen with no accents
Dense
patterns packed edge to edge with no white left
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