A print/graphic AI art style prompt drawing on Byzantine and Punk. 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.
FLUX 1.1 pro · the main imageGPT-Image-2Muse 1.0Nano Banana 2.1
The prompt
Original
Ornamental gold-leaf patterning and tessellated metallic surface treatment fused with raw gestural mark-making and spontaneous scrawled linework, layered over a mimeograph purple-ink grain with soft registration blur and duplicated print texture. The result should manifest as a richly decorative yet rough-edged image with burnished metallic accents, energetic black contour strokes, and a slightly off-register risograph haze across the whole composition.
The recipe removed — no artists, no wild card, no movements. Only what the style does to a surface.
Gold leaf forms tessellated decorative patterns with burnished highlights and irregular metallic texture. Raw black contours slash, loop, and scrawl across the surface with spontaneous pressure shifts and rough edges. Grainy purple ink sits beneath in duplicated layers, its soft misalignment producing blurred fringes, repeated texture, and a faintly displaced haze throughout the composition.
Paste the prompt, then add your subject after it — for example …, a lighthouse on a cliff at dusk.
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.