Loose Painted Figures

Fashion · Painterly · Figures

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Figures in a row·Nano Banana Pro
Wide group·Seedream 4.5
Square crop·Seedream 4.5
Detail of the paint·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

Three or four figures standing in a row, painted with broad confident opaque strokes that describe the clothing in detail while every face is left as a blank unpainted shape. Warm neutral wash behind them, slightly dry paint with visible brush marks, repeated poses giving the group a rhythm. No facial features at all, no outlines, no background detail.

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
1280 x 1024
Quality
High
Background
Opaque
Output
PNG

Tips

  • 1Blank faces are deliberate. Say it twice or features creep back.
  • 2Detail belongs in the clothing, nowhere else.
  • 3Repeat the pose with small differences for rhythm.

Things to try

Two figures

a pair instead of a row

A team in kit in the same treatment

different clothing, same handling

Cooler

blues and greys throughout

Seated

the row sitting down

Looser

fewer strokes, more ground

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