Neo-expressive Painting

Illustration · Expressive · Raw

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Neo-expressive Painting, Raw brushwork, scrawled marks and a figure drawn like a warning sign — Scrawled cat figure·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 raw neo expressionist painting of a black cat figure with bared teeth, drawn with scrawled childlike outlines over blocks of primary red, yellow and blue laid in with thick gestural brushwork. Visible corrections and painted over marks, scratched lines through wet paint, small symbols floating around the figure: a crown, an arrow, a grid of numbers. Canvas texture throughout, no blending, deliberately unresolved.

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 1216
Quality: High
Background: Opaque
Output: PNG

Tips

1Visible corrections are essential. A tidy version of this style is a different style.
2Floating symbols give it the right restless energy.
3Primary colour blocked in fast, no mixing.