Brushflow
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
In style of Ikenaga Yasunari + Huang Guangjian (+ Lois van Baarle), where Ikenaga’s delicate pigment handling should enhance the elegance and poise of the line, Huang’s ink dragon technique should imbue the composition with mythic energy and motion, and Loish’s smooth digital finish should add polish and luminosity. The fusion should manifest as a refined blend of modern figurative rendering and classical East Asian ink art.
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.
Delicate pigment handling enhances the elegance and poise of the line, a flowing ink technique imbues the composition with mythic energy and motion, and a smooth digital finish adds polish and luminosity. The fusion should manifest as a refined blend of modern figurative rendering and classical East Asian ink art.
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.
Delicate pigment layering sits on smooth polished surfaces, while broad ink washes and dynamic dry-brush strokes weave through the composition in fluid arcs. Edges vary from soft seamless blends to crisp calligraphic breaks. Light collects as a soft glow over the pigment, with deep translucent ink darks anchoring the forms. The composition emerges with a poised refined presence, its contours defined by the interplay of smooth finish and energetic ink.
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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