Retro Comic Characters
Illustration · Comic · Character
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.
GPT Image
Full sentences. Describe the scene, then the medium, then the flaws you want kept in.
The recipe is the style, not the picture. Put your own subject in and the highlighted part of the prompt changes.
A cast of cartoon characters standing side by side against a plain ground, drawn with a clean confident mid century comic line and filled with flat muted colour. Stylised proportions, features simplified to a few shapes, each figure given one clear defining feature so the group reads as a designed set rather than a crowd. No shading, no lettering.
Use the examples as a reference
Download the examplesSend 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.
Recommended settings
- Size
- 1536 x 1024
- Quality
- High
- Background
- Opaque
- Output
- PNG
Tips
- 1One defining feature each. It is what makes a cast rather than a crowd.
- 2Flat muted colour, not bright primaries.
- 3Plain ground. Any scene distracts from the line up.
Things to try
A family group in the same treatment
different cast, same line
Monsters
creatures instead of people
Single character
one figure alone
Brighter
saturated primaries instead
Action
the cast mid movement
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