Ink Brush Abstract

Illustration · Brush · Abstract

Download examples
Animal in five strokes·Nano Banana Pro
Wide crop·Seedream 4.5
Square study·Seedream 4.5
Vertical form·Seedream 4.5
Detail of the dry drag·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

An abstract animal form built from about six loaded brush strokes in deep blue ink on white paper, and nothing else. The gesture suggests a crouching wolf without describing it: one sweeping stroke for the back, shorter marks for legs, a dry dragged edge where the brush lifted. Ink pools darker where pressure was heaviest, paper left completely bare everywhere else. No outline, no detail, no correction.

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
1365 x 1024
Quality
High
Background
Opaque
Output
PNG

Tips

  • 1Give a stroke count. Six forces the economy that makes it work.
  • 2Pooling and dry drag are what prove a real brush was involved.
  • 3Say the subject is suggested, not described.

Things to try

Black ink

the same economy in black on cream

Two colours

a second ink overlapping the first

Figure

a running human suggested in four strokes

Landscape

a horizon and a hill in three marks

On board

the strokes on grey card rather than white paper

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