Dotwork Line Illustration

Illustration · Dotwork · Stipple

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Mountain range in patterns·Nano Banana Pro
Wide panorama·Seedream 4.5
Square crop·Seedream 4.5
Single form·Seedream 4.5
Detail of the fills·Seedream 4.5

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.

Prompt

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

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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
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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