Textured Pencil Storybook

Illustration · Pencil · Texture

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Textured Pencil Storybook, Coloured pencil grain, muted palette and a child drawn with real care — Child in a knitted jumper·Nano Banana Pro

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 storybook illustration of a small girl in a knitted green jumper and checked skirt standing with her hands behind her back, drawn in coloured pencil on textured paper. Colour laid down in visible directional strokes with paper grain showing through, edges slightly fuzzy rather than sharp, muted dusty palette of sage, brick and cream. Careful proportion rather than cartoon shorthand, calm expression, plain ground with a soft pencil shadow.

The prompt gets you close. Feed one of the examples in as a style reference for the rest. Download the images

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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.

Settings on GPT Image

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

Tips

1Directional strokes with grain showing through is the technique. Say it explicitly.
2Fuzzy edges rather than sharp ones separate pencil from digital fill.
3Careful proportion, not cartoon shorthand. That is what makes it feel drawn by hand.