Marker Doodle Character

Illustration · Marker · Doodle

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Marker Doodle Character, A scruffy character drawn in marker, deadpan and slightly annoyed — Standing character, deadpan·Nano Banana Pro

Recipe

The style is the recipe. The subject is yours.

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.

Make it yours

The recipe is the style, not the picture. Put your own subject in and the highlighted part of the prompt changes.

Prompt

A scruffy cartoon character drawn in felt tip marker: a tired looking wolf in hospital scrubs standing with its hands in its pockets, deadpan expression. Wobbly uneven black outline, flat muted fills of sage and grey that overshoot the line in places, casual hatching for shadow, lumpy loose anatomy. Drawn on off white sketchbook paper with a visible marker bleed, no digital smoothness.

The prompt gets you close. Feed one of the examples in as a style reference for the rest. Download the images

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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: 1024 x 1280
Quality: High
Background: Opaque
Output: PNG

Tips

1Fills that overshoot the line are what make it read as marker rather than vector.
2Deadpan or mildly irritated. The humour is in the flatness of the expression.
3Lumpy anatomy on purpose. Correct proportions look like a different style entirely.