Red Scribble Portrait

Illustration · Portrait · Scribble

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 portrait drawn entirely in a single colour of red pen on textured off white paper. The head, hair and every shadow are made from dense tangled scribble, loose and open where the light falls, knotted almost solid in the darkest areas. Paper grain visible throughout, the drawing dissolving into loose stray line at the edges rather than ending cleanly, absolutely no second colour anywhere.

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

Download the examples

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.