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Neon Ivory Hatchwork
A print/graphic AI art style prompt drawing on Golden Age Illustration and Pop 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:
- Franklin Booth — Booth's pen hatching creates continuous tone through parallel lines that swell and taper.
- Tadanori Yokoo — Yokoo's screenprint collage produces hard-edged overprint via fluorescent magenta and cyan inks misregistered over a black key.
- Constantinopolitan consular ivory diptychs — Consular ivory carving infuses shallow stepped relief with undercut shadow and fine grain striations.
The fusion manifests as coarse dot-screen gradients, incised ruled keylines, and flat carved planes, transforming any subject through engraved line under neon offset.
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
Franklin Booth + Tadanori Yokoo + Constantinopolitan consular ivory diptychs, where Booth's pen hatching creates continuous tone through parallel lines that swell and taper, Yokoo's screenprint collage produces hard-edged overprint via fluorescent magenta and cyan inks misregistered over a black key, and consular ivory carving infuses shallow stepped relief with undercut shadow and fine grain striations. The fusion manifests as coarse dot-screen gradients, incised ruled keylines, and flat carved planes, transforming any subject through engraved line under neon offset.
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.
Early twentieth-century pen-and-ink engraving-style illustration + 1960s Japanese psychedelic screenprint poster art + late Roman carved ivory diptych relief, where pen hatching creates continuous tone through parallel lines that swell and taper, screenprint collage produces hard-edged overprint via fluorescent magenta and cyan inks misregistered over a black key, and ivory carving infuses shallow stepped relief with undercut shadow and fine grain striations. The fusion manifests as coarse dot-screen gradients, incised ruled keylines, and flat carved planes, transforming any subject through engraved line under neon offset.
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.
Tone is built entirely from parallel pen lines that swell and taper, with no soft washes. Fluorescent magenta and cyan inks overprint a black key plate, slipping slightly off register, and coarse dot-screen gradients fade between them. Surfaces read as shallow stepped relief, with crisp undercut shadow edges, incised ruled borders and fine striated grain running through flat planes.
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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