Pen Engraving Study

Illustration · Engraving · Pen

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Pen Engraving Study, Cross hatched pen work, a classical head, and a lot of bare paper — Head study, unfinished edges·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 Midjourney, 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.

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

Prompt

An old master pen and ink study of a young person's head turned three quarters and looking down, drawn entirely in cross hatching that follows the form of whatever it describes. Dense hatching in the shadows opening to bare paper in the light, no wash and no solid black. The drawing fades out at the shoulders and the edges are left unfinished. Warm aged paper, fine brown ink, a faint plate mark at the border.

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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.