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#4224

Gary Panter style reference and prompts

Explore the “Gary Panter” reference with stippled texture, scratch-like marks, and hatching. View the images, copy the style or example prompt, and discover related styles on Looksift.

Compare the Qwen Image 2.1 and GPT Image 2.5 examples, choose the visual qualities you want, and copy the style prompt for your own project.

Gary Panter style reference and prompts — Qwen Image 2.1Qwen Image 2.1
Gary Panter style reference and prompts — GPT Image 2.5GPT Image 2.5

Reference details

Reference ID
4224
Category
Ink & line

Reference prompts

Style prompt

A maximalist underground-comic style with wobbly black contours, frantic scratchy hatching, stippled fills, and dense miniature details. Flat fluorescent yellow, hot orange, electric pink, violet, acid green, and deep navy jostle across the surface. Scale jumps abruptly between small clustered marks and oversized graphic motifs. Conventional perspective loosens, but broad structural shapes keep the packed scene navigable. Every area carries jokes, faces, symbols, or texture, leaving almost no blank space. Irregular printed color and rough hand-inked edges give the image a tactile, mischievous energy.

Full example prompt

An imaginary night city crowds every part of a square illustration. A broad yellow brick bridge arches across dark blue water in the foreground, its black tunnel opening near the center. Tiny figures and small structures occupy the bridge and riverbank, while rows of quirky buildings stack tightly behind it. The skyline is full of narrow windows, towers, signs, and little stair-step roofs, all drawn with restless black ink. Above the city, oversized floating eyes and round grinning faces hover among starburst lights, coiling lines, and odd creature shapes. A bright radiating eye near the upper left and a large toothy pink head near the upper right interrupt the scale of the streets below. The palette is riotous but organized by the yellow bridge: hot gold and orange sit against electric pink, violet, dark navy, acid green, and small white highlights. Color is applied in mostly flat blocks, then roughened by dense hatching, dots, scribbles, and small repeated marks. Contours wobble and overlap, preserving the raw energy of hand-drawn underground comics. The night sky is not an empty backdrop; it is a crowded field of graphic jokes and unsettling inventions. There is little conventional perspective, yet the arched bridge, layered buildings, and river create a readable near-to-far movement. The finish is printed and tactile, with tiny irregularities in the fills and lines. The overall effect is noisy, humorous, and strange, inviting a slow scan across its many densely packed details.