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Gothic Cross-Hatch Storybook

Fine black etched lines, one accent ink chosen for the scene and distressed cream highlights create a densely shadowed, aged print.

Style ID

gothic-cross-hatch-storybook

Style prompt

Macabre pen-and-ink storybook drawing with needle-thin scratch marks, dense parallel hatching, carved black silhouettes and visibly rough printed-paper grain. Faces are pale and gaunt on natural proportions: hollow shadowed eye sockets, small sharp pupils, high hatched cheekbones, a long fine nose and thin dark lips; facial hair, where present, is fine scratched stubble. Hair is drawn in long scratched strands, and animals get wide pale eyes and wiry hatched fur. Black ink on aged cream paper carries the image, with one controlled accent ink chosen to fit the scene; choose the setting to fit the scene and keep it in theatrical shadow. Subjects may be re-posed. No text or lettering.

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Prompt for this image

Two adult friends stand side by side on a sunny city rooftop terrace, calm smiles, looking at the viewer. No letters, words, signs or logos anywhere in the image. Macabre pen-and-ink storybook drawing with needle-thin scratch marks, dense parallel hatching, carved black silhouettes and visibly rough printed-paper grain. Faces are pale graphic shapes with exaggerated features, tiny pupils, stark eye sockets and sharply drawn mouths, and give any pet an equally angular, storybook expression. Deep black and bone cream dominate, with controlled crimson accents and theatrical shadow framed by sparse bats and bare trees on an open parchment ground. The subjects may be re-posed in a way that suits the style, taking key tones from the supplied photo.

The exact prompt used for the image.

Your photo + style text

  • Your photo

Prompt for this image

Turn [your photo] into an artwork in this style, keeping the people or animals in it, their poses and the composition: Macabre pen-and-ink storybook drawing with needle-thin scratch marks, dense parallel hatching, carved black silhouettes, and visibly rough printed-paper grain. Faces are pale graphic shapes with exaggerated long noses or round eyes, tiny pupils, stark eye sockets, and sharply drawn mouths; give the dog an equally angular, storybook expression. Deep black and bone cream dominate, with controlled crimson accents and a red or parchment ground. A small warm glow cuts through theatrical shadow; sparse bats, bare trees, and open paper frame the figures. Square 1:1 composition.

This is the prompt used for the image above, with the photo's subjects replaced by [your photo].

Style image + your photo

  • Image 1: Style image

  • Image 2: Your photo

Prompt for this image

Create a new image entirely in the style of image 1: the same medium, materials, technique, rendering and character design (how it builds faces, eyes, hair, bodies and proportions). Do not copy its color palette or its environment; colors and setting follow the direction at the end. Its subjects are the two people and the dog from image 2: keep their hair, clothing colors, the dog's coat, their pose, expression and the direction they look, and the cafe table with cups. Every part of them is made in the style of image 1, faces, hands, clothes and the dog included; nothing photographic remains. Square 1:1 composition; do not copy image 1's people, objects or scene. Direction: the cafe terrace from image 2 as a macabre pen-and-ink storybook print at night: needle-thin scratch marks, dense parallel hatching, carved black silhouettes of bare trees and a moonlit crooked building behind, rough printed-paper grain. Palette for this image: black ink on aged cream paper with one deep teal spot color, not the red of image 1. Pale graphic faces with exaggerated features and tiny pupils, still smiling gently. Their real clothing colors from image 2 survive only as muted printed tints (cream cardigan, blue jeans, olive overshirt, beige chinos). No text, letters, captions, banners, signs, swatches, color chips or decorative rules anywhere in the image. The artwork and any border finish completely inside the frame; nothing is cropped or overflows the edges.

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