Two Ink Heroic Print

Poster · Two Colour · Print

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Figure in two inks·Nano Banana Pro
Wide crop·Seedream 4.5
Square version·Seedream 4.5
Vertical print·Seedream 4.5

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.

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.

The recipe is the style, not the picture. Put your own subject in and the highlighted part of the prompt changes.

Prompt

A print worked in exactly two inks, red and blue, of a dramatic heroic figure. The drawing is built entirely from engraved style contour line and hatching, the two ink plates deliberately misregistered so they fringe and overlap against each other. Bare paper left around the figure, no third colour, no solid fill, no background scene. Slightly theatrical pose, printed on rough cream stock.

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
1280 x 1024
Quality
High
Background
Opaque
Output
PNG

Tips

  • 1Deliberate misregistration is the signature. Ask for it explicitly.
  • 2Line and hatching only. Solid fill turns it into a poster.
  • 3Two inks. A third breaks the whole logic.

Things to try

Black and red

a harder pairing

Full figure

the whole body in frame

Animal

a creature in the same inks

Tighter register

the plates nearly aligned

Portrait

head and shoulders only

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