Lone Ink Figure Study
Illustration · Ink · Figure
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.
A single small figure rendered in fine dense ink hatching, placed alone in the middle of a very large expanse of bare cream paper. No ground line, no cast shadow, no context or scenery of any kind. All the detail concentrated in the clothing and the stance, the figure occupying only a small fraction of the frame. Quiet, precise, slightly melancholy.
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 examplesSend 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
- 1280 x 1024
- Quality
- High
- Background
- Opaque
- Output
- PNG
Tips
- 1Say what fraction of the frame the figure fills or it grows.
- 2No ground line. The floating is the point.
- 3Detail in the clothes carries the whole drawing.
Things to try
Two figures
a pair with space between
Animal
a creature in the same hand
Larger
the figure filling more of the page
Toned paper
the drawing on grey
Red accent
one small element in colour
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