Sumicane
A painterly AI art style prompt drawing on Sumi-e and Romanticism. 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
a fusion of Japanese sumi-e ink wash techniques + Turner's atmospheric color blending + 1980s Miami Vice advertising aesthetics where subjects are rendered with flowing ink-like drips and horizontal color washes, enhanced by Romantic landscape's moody atmospheric effects and soft edge transitions, finished with retro commercial coral and teal color schemes and weathered surface textures, while maintaining all original subjects and environmental settings completely intact
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.
A fusion of Japanese sumi-e ink wash techniques + atmospheric color blending + 1980s retro advertising aesthetics where subjects are rendered with flowing ink-like drips and horizontal color washes, enhanced by Romantic landscape's moody atmospheric effects and soft edge transitions, finished with retro commercial coral and teal color schemes and weathered surface textures, while maintaining all original subjects and environmental settings completely intact
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.
Flowing ink drips and runs downward while horizontal color washes spread across the surface in unbroken bands. Edges are soft and atmospheric, dissolving gradually into one another, with occasional crisp transitions. Pigment pools, granulates, and settles into a weathered patina. Coral and teal structure the value range, from glowing highlights to deep, moody darks. Subjects and environmental settings remain entirely intact, unaffected by the wet handling.
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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