Storm Kraken Seascape

Illustration · Storm · Sea

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 dark painted seascape where the storm and the creature are the same thing: enormous tentacles rising out of a black sea and dissolving upward into low cloud, lit faintly from behind so only their edges catch the light. Low horizon, chopped grey water, any vessel present small enough to be almost missed. Painterly, atmospheric, more dread than spectacle.

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: 1536 x 1024
Quality: High
Background: Opaque
Output: PNG

Tips

1Let the tentacles blend into the cloud. Clear separation makes it a monster picture.
2Backlight only the edges.
3Keep any boat tiny. Scale is the whole effect.