Raku
A painterly AI art style prompt drawing on Sumi-e and Wabi-Sabi. 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
A fusion of Zen Ensō painters + Wassily Kandinsky + ceramic crackle-glaze techniques where subjects are rendered through single, confident brush strokes that maintain uneven ink density. Forms are simplified to their essential geometry using circular and curved elements. A network of fine crackle-lines overlays the entire image like aged ceramic glaze, creating a web of interconnected fractures. Color is applied in geometric blocks that rarely align perfectly with the brush-defined forms. Surface texture appears uneven with areas of thickness resembling ceramic glaze pooling in depressions. Metallic and matte surfaces contrast throughout the composition.
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.
A fusion of Zen Ensō painters + Bauhaus geometric abstraction + ceramic crackle-glaze techniques where subjects are rendered through single, confident brush strokes that maintain uneven ink density. Forms are simplified to their essential geometry using circular and curved elements. A network of fine crackle-lines overlays the entire image like aged ceramic glaze, creating a web of interconnected fractures. Color is applied in geometric blocks that rarely align perfectly with the brush-defined forms. Surface texture appears uneven with areas of thickness resembling ceramic glaze pooling in depressions. Metallic and matte surfaces contrast throughout the composition.
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.
Confident single strokes carry uneven ink density, while forms reduce to circular and curved essentials. A web of fine interconnected fracture lines spreads across the whole surface, overlaying colour laid in geometric blocks that sit slightly out of register with the drawn shapes. Thickened pools gather in hollows, giving an uneven skin. Matte and metallic finishes alternate across the picture.
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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