Flat Graphic Still Life

Illustration · Still Life · Flat

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Flat Graphic Still Life, Objects as flat shapes on blocked colour, with shadows that lie — Cocktails on blocked colour·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 flat graphic still life of three cocktails, a shaker and a folded napkin, drawn as flat shapes with no line work and no shading. The ground is split into two blocks of clashing colour, cobalt blue above and lemon yellow below, and each object casts a hard edged black shadow at an angle that does not quite make sense. Objects simplified to a silhouette plus one or two internal shapes, saturated flat colour throughout.

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

Tips

1Shadows at an angle that does not quite make sense is what gives it the graphic edge.
2Split the ground into two colour blocks rather than one.
3Silhouette plus one or two internal shapes per object, no more.