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Matte Gouache Poster-Gloss
A painterly AI art style prompt drawing on Bande Dessinée and Poster Art. 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:
- Tomer Hanuka — Hanuka's graphic modelling creates simplified planes divided by crisp-edged shadow shapes through slightly stylised contour and smooth blended turns.
- Jean Giraud (Moebius) — Moebius's atmospheric stacking produces depth via pale receding value steps with detail concentrated in the nearest plane.
- Gouache with airbrushed gradients on illustration board — The gouache infuses a matte velvety surface.
The fusion manifests as a restricted cerulean, yellow ochre, vermilion, bone white and lamp black palette, soft gradients against hard shadow edges, transforming any subject through poster-clean polish.
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
Tomer Hanuka + Jean Giraud (Moebius) + gouache with airbrushed gradients on illustration board, where Hanuka's graphic modelling creates simplified planes divided by crisp-edged shadow shapes through slightly stylised contour and smooth blended turns, and Moebius's atmospheric stacking produces depth via pale receding value steps with detail concentrated in the nearest plane, and the gouache infuses a matte velvety surface. The fusion manifests as a restricted cerulean, yellow ochre, vermilion, bone white and lamp black palette, soft gradients against hard shadow edges, transforming any subject through poster-clean polish.
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.
Contemporary editorial illustration + European science-fantasy comics art + gouache with airbrushed gradients on illustration board, where graphic modelling creates simplified planes divided by crisp-edged shadow shapes through slightly stylised contour and smooth blended turns, and atmospheric stacking of planes produces depth via pale receding value steps with detail concentrated in the nearest plane, and the gouache infuses a matte velvety surface. The fusion manifests as a restricted cerulean, yellow ochre, vermilion, bone white and lamp black palette, soft gradients against hard shadow edges, transforming any subject through poster-clean polish.
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.
Opaque matte paint with no visible brush streaks, laid in simplified planes whose shadows are cut as crisp-edged shapes beside smooth sprayed-looking gradients. Contours are slightly stylised and clean. Distant areas step back in pale, low-contrast values while detail is spent only in the nearest plane. A restricted cerulean, ochre, vermilion, bone white and black palette keeps everything in one harmony.
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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