Mid-century Children’s Book

Illustration · Children · Flat Colour

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 mid century children’s book illustration of five rabbits standing around a table with a wine bottle and glasses. Flat simplified shapes with no outlines, printed in three inks of cream, forest green and burnt orange that overprint into a fourth darker tone where they cross. Coarse screen texture rather than brush marks, playful scale, composition sitting off centre. Warm printed paper ground, no shading or gradients.

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

Tips

1Three inks that overprint into a fourth is the whole colour system.
2No outlines. Shapes meeting shapes is what makes it mid century rather than modern.
3Animals doing human things is the period’s favourite device.