Painting & line
Pencil hatching
Every tone is a stroke count. Nothing is filled; darkness is just more lines, which makes the whole image feel physically drawn.
What to look at
- 01Tone built from stroke density, never fill
- 02Paper tooth breaking up the graphite
- 03Contours slightly unsteady, clearly by hand
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.
hand-drawn pencil game character, graphite hatching and cross-hatching for every tone, visible paper tooth, monochrome graphite with at most one muted accent colour, slightly unsteady hand-drawn contour
Tilemap prompt
Goes in the tilemap tool's custom style field.
hand-drawn graphite terrain, every tone built from pencil hatching and cross-hatching, visible paper tooth, monochrome graphite with at most one muted accent colour, unsteady hand-drawn contours
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 hand-drawn graphite illustration: every tone built from pencil hatching and cross-hatching on visible paper tooth, monochrome graphite with at most one muted accent colour. 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
Mundaun · Neverending Nightmares
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.