Cyan Filament Dry-Brush
A painterly AI art style prompt drawing on Sumi-e and Post-Impressionism. Copy the prompt below into any text-to-image model, then add your own subject at the end. The prompt only describes the look.
The blend
The prompt combines 3 ingredients and gives each one a job:
- Bada Shanren — Bada Shanren's dry-brush stroke, swelling from loaded wet ink to a broken scratchy tail, creates calligraphic weight shifts through a rounded centre-tip brush on absorbent paper.
- Vincent van Gogh — Van Gogh's short directional impasto dashes produce swirling rhythmic field lines that orbit central masses via repeated parallel marks.
- Electroluminescent wire — Electroluminescent wire infuses constant-width cyan hairlines with a halated glow.
The fusion manifests as a monochrome ink ground, glowing filament lines tracing key edges, and mostly untouched paper, transforming any subject through sparse handling.
On 4 models
The same prompt and the same subject, rendered by different image models — so the differences are the model, not the prompt.
The prompt
Original
Bada Shanren + Vincent van Gogh + electroluminescent wire, where Bada Shanren's dry-brush stroke, swelling from loaded wet ink to a broken scratchy tail, creates calligraphic weight shifts through a rounded centre-tip brush on absorbent paper, Van Gogh's short directional impasto dashes produce swirling rhythmic field lines that orbit central masses via repeated parallel marks, and electroluminescent wire infuses constant-width cyan hairlines with a halated glow. The fusion manifests as a monochrome ink ground, glowing filament lines tracing key edges, and mostly untouched paper, transforming any subject through sparse handling.
Render on BudgetPixel: FLUX 1.1 pro · GPT-Image-2 · Muse 1.0 · Nano Banana 2.1
Model-neutral
The same look with artist names and copyrighted references removed — for models that refuse them.
Chan-Buddhist literati ink painting + Post-Impressionist impasto swirl painting + electroluminescent wire, where dry-brush strokes swelling from loaded wet ink to a broken scratchy tail create calligraphic weight shifts through a rounded centre-tip brush on absorbent paper, short directional impasto dashes produce swirling rhythmic field lines that orbit central masses via repeated parallel marks, and electroluminescent wire infuses constant-width cyan hairlines with a halated glow. The fusion manifests as a monochrome ink ground, glowing filament lines tracing key edges, and mostly untouched paper, transforming any subject through sparse handling.
Render on BudgetPixel: FLUX 1.1 pro · GPT-Image-2 · Muse 1.0 · Nano Banana 2.1
Effect only
The recipe removed — no artists, no wild card, no movements. Only what the style does to a surface.
Dry, confident brush strokes swell from dense wet black to a scratchy, broken tail, so line weight changes constantly. Short parallel dashes repeat in curling bands around central masses, giving a slow current of movement. Thin cyan lines of unvarying width trace key edges, each with a bright core and a soft halo. The ground stays monochrome and mostly bare, with marks kept sparse and decisive.
Render on BudgetPixel: FLUX 1.1 pro · GPT-Image-2 · Muse 1.0 · Nano Banana 2.1
Using it
- Paste the prompt, then add your subject after it — for example …, a lighthouse on a cliff at dusk.
- The original names artists. Some hosted models refuse that or quietly render around it — on those, use the model-neutral version, which describes the same handling without the names.
- The effect-only version drops the recipe altogether and describes only what the style does to a surface. Use it to mix this look into another style, or when you want nothing traceable to a source.
- Every sample here was rendered against the same short subject — Quiet streets whisper / Her footsteps echo softly / Sunlight paints her path — so it shows the style, not a lucky subject.
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