Scanline Wool Facet
A print/graphic AI art style prompt drawing on Cubism and Mid-Century Modern. Copy the prompt below into any text-to-image model, then add your own subject at the end. The prompt only describes the look.
How this one was made: Six styles with a pop-culture wild card
The blend
The prompt combines 3 ingredients and gives each one a job:
- Jean Lurçat — Lurçat's coarse-weave hatching creates stepped tonal bands through parallel directional strokes in a numbered wool palette.
- Alexandra Exter — Exter's faceted colour planes produce interlocking angular rhythms via hard diagonal cuts between flat fills.
- A hand-soldered Soviet ZX Spectrum clone on a household CRT television — The Spectrum clone infuses attribute clash, each 8x8 cell holding only two colours with hard-bled borders and faint scanline shimmer.
The fusion manifests as stair-stepped edges, two-colour cell limits, and visible stroke grain, transforming any subject through stitched-pixel handling.
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
Jean Lurçat + Alexandra Exter + a hand-soldered Soviet ZX Spectrum clone on a household CRT television, where Lurçat's coarse-weave hatching creates stepped tonal bands through parallel directional strokes in a numbered wool palette, Exter's faceted colour planes produce interlocking angular rhythms via hard diagonal cuts between flat fills, and the Spectrum clone infuses attribute clash, each 8x8 cell holding only two colours with hard-bled borders and faint scanline shimmer. The fusion manifests as stair-stepped edges, two-colour cell limits, and visible stroke grain, transforming any subject through stitched-pixel handling.
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.
Mid-century French woven wool tapestry + Kyiv Cubo-Futurist faceted colour-plane painting + chunky 1980s home-computer pixel colour, saturated primaries against black with bled borders and CRT shimmer, where coarse-weave hatching creates stepped tonal bands through parallel directional strokes in a numbered wool palette, angular colour planes produce interlocking rhythms via hard diagonal cuts between flat fills, and the pixel colour look infuses clash, each square cell holding only two colours with hard-bled borders and faint scanline shimmer. The fusion manifests as stair-stepped edges, two-colour cell limits, and visible stroke grain, transforming any subject through stitched-pixel handling.
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.
Forms are built from parallel directional strokes in contrasting tones, stacked into stepped bands with a coarse woven grain. Flat fills are split by hard diagonal cuts into interlocking angular planes. Colour is confined to square cells that each hold only two hues, so borders bleed and clash. Edges climb in stair-steps, with faint horizontal scanline shimmer across every surface.
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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