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Gothic ink linework

Drawn with a brush, not a pencil. The line swells and tapers, the palette stays muted, and ornament lives in the silhouette rather than in the shading.

Gothic ink linework
Generated with GenioPlus. All 24 samples draw the same scene — only the style changes.

What to look at

  1. 01Line weight swelling and tapering
  2. 02Flat muted fills inside the contours
  3. 03Ornament built into the silhouette

Prompts

The prompts stay in English on purpose: image models read English best, so translating them only costs you quality. Paste them as they are.

Character prompt

Goes in the Style field of the character, T-pose and animation tools.

gothic ink illustration drawn with a brush pen, thick black tapering ink contours around every form, flat muted desaturated fills inside the lines, ornate decorative silhouette, pale cold rim light, no painted texture and no soft shading

Tilemap prompt

Goes in the tilemap tool's custom style field.

gothic ink illustration terrain drawn with a brush pen, thick black tapering ink contours around every form, flat muted desaturated fills inside the lines, ornate carved stone and twisted organic detail, no painted texture and no soft gradients

Background prompt

Generate a background image with this first, then feed that image to the scene splitter. Replace the bracketed part with your own scene.

A single 2D game background plate for [YOUR SCENE — e.g. a seaside village at dusk]. Horizontal composition, drawn as one illustrated scene whose buildings, trees, rocks and props sit clearly apart from one another, each fully visible and not overlapping, so every one of them can be cut out afterwards as a standalone asset. Draw it as a gothic ink illustration made with a brush pen: thick black tapering ink contours around every single form, flat muted desaturated fills inside the lines, ornate carved detail, deep pools of shadow, and no painted texture or soft shading anywhere. Keep one consistent light direction and one consistent perspective across the whole scene. No characters, no text, no labels, no UI, no logos, no watermark, no border.

Games that made this look known

Hollow Knight · Blasphemous

Reference for your eye only. The prompts never name a game, so the model designs something of its own instead of copying one.

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Gothic ink linework — Game Art Style Prompt | GenioPlus