Ink Sketch Red Accent

Illustration · Ink · Sketch

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Scratchy hatching
Wide sketchbook page
Square crop
Vertical study

Recipe

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Updated 10 Aug 2026

Full sentences. Describe the scene, then the medium, then the flaws you want kept in.

The recipe is the style, not the picture. Put your own subject in and the prompt updates.

Prompt

A loose sketchbook drawing in black ink on white paper. Subjects described with fast scratchy hatching and broken contour lines that leave large areas of the paper completely bare. One single small element painted in flat vermilion red is the only colour in the entire image. Deliberately unbalanced composition with generous white space, visible pen pressure, no shading beyond hatching, no lettering.

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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.

Recommended settings

Size
1536 x 1024
Quality
High
Background
Opaque
Output
PNG

Tips

  • 1One red element only. Two and the trick is gone.
  • 2Large bare areas. Ask for them or it fills the page.
  • 3Broken contours read as speed. Smooth lines read as clip art.

Things to try

Blue accent

the same with cobalt instead of red

Denser

heavier hatching, less white

Portrait

a head study in the same hand

Two accents

a second smaller red mark

Brush

a brush pen instead of a nib

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