Ghosted Segment Stencil
A print/graphic AI art style prompt drawing on Art Nouveau and Mid-Century Modern. Copy the prompt below into any text-to-image model, then add your own subject at the end. The prompt only describes the look.
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
Maija Isola + Harry Clarke + Elektronika IM-02 Nu, Pogodi! LCD handheld, where Isola's hand-cut stencil screenprinting creates overscaled flat shapes with slightly wobbling edges through single-pass ink layers, Clarke's hair-fine pen filigree produces dense leaded tracery with tonal density built by stipple and crosshatch, and the LCD handheld infuses fixed pre-printed segments in strictly on-off tone. The fusion manifests as a restricted two-ink palette, faint ghosted unlit underprint, and hard-stepped values without gradients, transforming any subject through segmented stencil flattening.
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.
Finnish mid-century stencil-printed textile design + Irish Arts and Crafts stained-glass illustration + 1980s Soviet pocket LCD game, where hand-cut stencil screenprinting creates overscaled flat shapes with slightly wobbling edges through single-pass ink layers, hair-fine pen filigree produces dense leaded tracery with tonal density built by stipple and crosshatch, and fixed pre-printed LCD segments infuse strictly on-off tone. The fusion manifests as a restricted two-ink palette, faint ghosted unlit underprint, and hard-stepped values without gradients, transforming any subject through segmented stencil flattening.
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.
Large flat shapes printed in single passes of ink, their edges slightly wobbling and imperfect. Fine pen filigree packs dense tracery between them, with tone built only from stipple and crosshatch. Every area is either fully inked or fully blank, with no gradients. Faint ghosts of the blank areas stay visible beneath the printed ones, and the palette is held to two inks.
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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