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An illustration AI art style prompt drawing on Mid-Century Modern and Folk 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:
- Itchiku Kubota — Kubota's stitch-resist dye gradients create colour fields that bleed softly across hard panel divisions through layered tonal dyeing.
- Charley Harper — Harper's reduction to geometric planes produces crisp simplified edges via opaque flat gouache fills.
- Karagöz shadow-puppet hide — Mass-produced bazaar puppet hide infuses backlit translucence.
The fusion manifests as pierced pinprick perforations, dark contour lines, and glowing dye stains over directional fibrous striations, transforming any subject through flattened, scraped-parchment 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
Itchiku Kubota + Charley Harper + Karagöz shadow-puppet hide, where Kubota's stitch-resist dye gradients create colour fields that bleed softly across hard panel divisions through layered tonal dyeing, Harper's reduction to geometric planes produces crisp simplified edges via opaque flat gouache fills, and mass-produced bazaar puppet hide infuses backlit translucence. The fusion manifests as pierced pinprick perforations, dark contour lines, and glowing dye stains over directional fibrous striations, transforming any subject through flattened, scraped-parchment 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.
Tsujigahana-style stitch-resist shibori kimono dyeing + mid-century modernist wildlife illustration + pierced translucent Ottoman shadow-theatre hide silhouettes, where stitch-resist dye gradients create colour fields that bleed softly across hard panel divisions through layered tonal dyeing, reduction to geometric planes produces crisp simplified edges via opaque flat gouache fills, and mass-produced bazaar puppet hide infuses backlit translucence. The fusion manifests as pierced pinprick perforations, dark contour lines, and glowing dye stains over directional fibrous striations, transforming any subject through flattened, scraped-parchment 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.
Soft tonal colour melts from one hue into the next within fields divided by hard straight seams. Shapes reduce to flat opaque planes with crisp edges and dark contour lines. The surface looks like thin scraped membrane, glowing as if lit from behind, with saturated stains pooling into it, tiny pierced pinprick patterns, and fine directional striations running across every plane.
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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