A reusable prompt template for generating watercolor

Social Media Post - Watercolor and Colored Pencil Children's Book Illustration Template

by 大龙 · CC-BY-4.0 license · via YouMind (CC BY 4.0)

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A reusable prompt template for generating watercolor and colored pencil style children's book illustrations using GPT Image, featuring specific texture, composition, and character constraints.

Overview

A reusable prompt template for generating watercolor and colored pencil style children's book illustrations using GPT Image, featuring specific texture, composition, and character constraints.

The prompt

9 lines · 1,875 characters · makes an image — paste it into an image model
1Hand-drawn children's picture book illustration, traditional media texture. The base layer consists of large blocks of watercolor and gouache, where uneven water tones, brush directions, and pigment sedimentation are visible within the color blocks; edges have water stains, and color blocks overlap semi-transparently. The upper layer uses colored pencils for lines and hatching, with line colors matching the fill colors (not ink lines or dark outlines), varying thickness, slightly shaky, many shapes left unoutlined, textures represented by hand-drawn parallel pencil lines. The image is flat and decorative, without linear perspective, depth achieved only through layered occlusion of color blocks and cooling/darkening in the distance. No unified light source, no volumetric shadows; objects have only small contact shadows drawn with colored pencil hatching. Background sprinkled with fine white and light-colored granular dots. Dark colors use indigo or deep purple, never pure black.
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3Scene: {argument name="scene" default="Forest Picnic"}. Composition: {argument name="composition" default="Central Symmetry"}, distributed with varying density, disparate object sizes, partial occlusions.
4Decorative patterns: {argument name="patterns" default="Mushrooms, leaves, berries"}.
5Color palette: {argument name="color_palette" default="Warm Tones"}.
6Characters: All very small, occupying about one-sixth of the image height, bodies are flat silhouettes with no details (no nose, mouth, or paw details); eyes are white circles with a single black dot pupil, slightly large and tilted. {argument name="character_action" default="Little rabbit eating a carrot"}.
7{argument name="optional_technique" default=""}
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9No vector flat style, no 3D rendering, no smooth digital gradients, no glossy highlights, no realistic lighting/shadows, no uniform paper texture filter, no text.

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