Spattered Sumi Lacquer
A painterly AI art style prompt drawing on Sumi-e and Nihonga. 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
Fujishima Takeji + sumi ink and red pigment on stained paper, where soft academic modelling creates smoothly graded planes with a polished, near-airbrushed finish through tonal blending, flicked and spattered ink produces broken contours that dissolve edges into the ground via loaded-brush flicks and dry-brush strokes, and a restricted sumi black, vermilion and warm paper-white palette yields one saturated note against deep darks. The handling manifests as crisp calligraphic lines where form resolves, abstract splash elsewhere, transforming any subject through detail spent only at one focal zone.
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.
Sumi ink and red pigment on stained paper in the manner of Meiji-era Western-style yōga painting, where soft academic modelling creates smoothly graded planes with a polished, near-airbrushed finish through tonal blending, flicked and spattered ink produces broken contours that dissolve edges into the ground via loaded-brush flicks and dry-brush strokes, and a restricted sumi black, vermilion and warm paper-white palette yields one saturated note against deep darks. The handling manifests as crisp calligraphic lines where form resolves, abstract splash elsewhere, transforming any subject through detail spent only at one focal zone.
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.
Smooth, softly blended planes with a glossy, almost airbrushed finish in the resolved area, held by thin crisp dark lines. Everywhere else, contours break into flicked spatter, long drips and dry-brush streaks that sink into a pale, unevenly stained paper ground. Deep black masses and a single saturated red note, otherwise low chroma, with detail concentrated at one focal zone.
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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