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#3353
Satoshi Kon style reference and prompts
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Reference details
- Reference ID
- 3353
- Category
- Flat illustration
Reference prompts
Style prompt
The painterly anime treatment joins crisply outlined focal features to broad distressed blocks of color. A tightly controlled range of ocher yellow, aged teal, brick red, and near-black creates strong separation without glossy saturation. Dry-brush scuffs, thin cracks, and rubbed patches give flat background planes a worn tactile surface. Focal shapes are simplified into bold rounded and angular masses, with just a few precise facial accents establishing expression. Soft sidelight warms exposed planes while cooler shadows absorb much of the lower or recessed area. A vertical dark band and broad pale field structure the frame, and one concentrated red mass provides the main chromatic pull. Edges sharpen around key features but become coarse and broken in the surroundings. The overall effect is introspective, urban, and slightly uneasy, with economical line art and weathered painted texture sharing the visual load.Full example prompt
A square anime-inspired painterly illustration shows a black-haired young woman crouching beside a worn teal doorway in a quiet interior. The left half of the background is a yellow-green plaster wall, its surface cracked and rubbed thin to reveal uneven pale patches. At the center-right, a tall dark teal paneled door rises behind the woman, its grooves and frame defined by narrow ink-like lines. A vertical rust-red wall or jamb crops the far right edge. Along the bottom, a narrow strip of warm orange floor tile gives the crouched figure a firm base. The woman occupies the right half of the composition. She has a short glossy black bob with a small red band near the crown, pale warm skin, and dark eyes that turn toward the viewer over her shoulder. Her mouth is painted a muted coral red; the expression is calm, slightly searching, and self-contained. A red long-sleeved blouse folds at the elbows and waist, contrasting strongly with a wide dark skirt or trousers that gather around the bent legs. One arm rests across her knees and a hand hangs loosely down toward the lower-left side of her body. Small dark red shoes are visible on the tiled floor near the bottom center. The posture compresses the whole figure into a rounded dark shape beneath the sharper red upper body. Light comes softly from the left, brightening the exposed face, forearm, and plaster wall, while the doorway and lower clothing remain in cool dark shade. The surface combines firm dark outlines around the face with rough dry-brush texture across wall and floor. No readable text appears. The overall composition is intimate and slightly suspenseful, using a poised glance and bold red-black form against aged green-yellow architecture.