Sumi-e Ink Landscape

Illustration · Sumi-E · Ink Wash

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.

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 sumi-e ink wash landscape on absorbent rice paper. Layered mountains in two or three tonal washes of black ink, dry brush drag giving texture on the rock faces, mist rendered as bare untouched paper, a single tiny boat on the water for scale. Roughly seventy percent of the page left empty. A small red seal in the lower corner. No colour except the seal, no outlines, brush marks visible throughout.

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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.