Naive Folk Print

Illustration · Folk · Naive

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Bird with decorative marks·Nano Banana Pro
Square print·Seedream 4.5
Wide version·Seedream 4.5
Animal on a coloured ground·Seedream 4.5
Detail of the marks·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

A naive folk art print of a bird in flight, drawn as a single flat cream shape on a warm yellow ground with no perspective and no shading. The body is filled with rows of small repeated red marks standing in for texture, the extremities are simple flat shapes, any eye is a single dot. Three inks only, slightly uneven printing, a small red seal stamp in the lower corner. Charming and deliberately naive.

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 1024
Quality
High
Background
Opaque
Output
PNG

Tips

  • 1Repeated marks instead of texture is the technique. Say rows of small marks.
  • 2No perspective and no shading, stated plainly.
  • 3A small seal or stamp finishes it and costs nothing.

Things to try

Deer and trees

a standing animal among simplified plants

Pattern repeat

the motif tiled across the whole sheet

Cool palette

indigo and cream instead of red and yellow

Cut paper

the same shapes as torn paper collage

Embroidered

the motif rendered as stitching on linen

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