Painting & line
Ink wash
Brush and water instead of outline and fill. One stroke can be both edge and shadow, and what is left unpainted reads as mist and air.
What to look at
- 01Brushstrokes that swell and thin within one line
- 02Distance dissolving into grey mist
- 03Empty paper doing as much as the ink
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.
East Asian ink wash painting 2D game character, expressive black sumi ink brushstrokes of varying weight, soft grey ink washes for shading, sparse touches of muted colour, rice paper texture, generous empty space
Tilemap prompt
Goes in the tilemap tool's custom style field.
East Asian ink wash terrain: soft grey ink washes and dry-brush texture on pale rice paper, expressive brush marks of varying weight, sparse muted colour tints, no hard outlines on the fill, no noise
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 an East Asian ink wash painting: expressive black sumi ink brushstrokes of varying weight, layered grey washes for depth with distant forms fading into mist, sparse muted colour, rice paper texture and generous empty space. 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
Realm of Ink · Sumioni: Demon Arts
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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The prompts are free to take. Generating with them uses credits.