Spray Halftone Portrait

Illustration · Halftone · Spray

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 built entirely from sprayed halftone dots: the head of a figure rendered as a dense solid black mass at the centre, the dots thinning outward into a scattered halo so the edges dissolve into the paper. Two small blank shapes for the eyes are the only detail in the face. No outline, no flat fill, no grey wash, density alone carries the form. Single black ink on warm cream paper, coarse grain.

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.

Settings on GPT Image

Size: 1024 x 1280
Quality: High
Background: Opaque
Output: PNG

Tips

1Density alone carries the form. Say no outline and no flat fill or you get a normal illustration with texture on top.
2Edges that dissolve into scattered specks are the whole effect. Ask for it explicitly.
3One ink. Colour versions lose the starkness immediately.