Gestural Scribble Overlay

Illustration · Scribble · Gestural

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 deliberate clash of two registers: a neatly and carefully rendered subject on a plain cream ground, with fast heavy black brush scribbles and loose loops laid over the top, partly obscuring it. The scribbles are gestural and confident, made with a loaded brush, varying in weight, not random noise. A few small torn paper shapes sit between the layers. Nothing else in the frame, no lettering.

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 examples

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 1024
Quality: High
Background: Opaque
Output: PNG

Tips

1The subject underneath must be genuinely well drawn. The contrast is everything.
2Confident gestural marks, not scribbly noise. Ask for a loaded brush.
3Leave part of the subject clear so the eye can resolve it.