Loose Contour Figure

Fashion · Contour · Line

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Recipe

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Updated 11 Aug 2026

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

This recipe describes a treatment rather than a thing. Put your own subject in and it is added to the end of the prompt.

Prompt

A drawing made almost entirely of a single searching contour line that wanders, doubles back on itself and leaves gaps where the hand lifted. Two or three small patches of flat colour dropped in without following the line, plain white paper everywhere else, not a single closed shape in the drawing. Confident, fast, unfinished. No shading, no hatching. Subject: a figure in a cap looking down.

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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
1280 x 1024
Quality
High
Background
Opaque
Output
PNG

Tips

  • 1Gaps in the line are essential. A closed outline makes it clip art.
  • 2Let the colour patches ignore the line entirely.
  • 3Ask for no shading. Any tone breaks the economy.

Things to try

No colour

line alone on white

Full figure

head to toe in one line

Two figures

a pair sharing the line

Heavier line

a brush instead of a pen

More colour

five or six patches

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