# Gaunt Neo-Expressionist Lion

- Model: [GPT Image 2](/models/chatgpt-image.md)
- Creator: [Library Typography (@library.typography)](/@library.typography.md)
- Label: AI-generated
- Use cases: GPT Image 2
- AI keywords: animal, painting
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- Published: 2026-11-01
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## Prompt

```text
Create a raw neo-expressionist mixed-media painting on a dirty off-white canvas, dominated by a front-facing lion head with a gaunt, exhausted, slightly deranged expression. The lion has a huge scruffy mane in ochre, burnt orange, brown, black, and yellow, with spiky hair tufts radiating upward, asymmetrical wide circular eyes, a long yellow muzzle, a black nose, thin whiskers, and clenched vertical teeth like a grimace. Use dense scratched linework, splattered paint, dry-brush texture, scraped marks, drips, cracks, and chaotic graffiti-like scribbles across the whole surface, evoking Jean-Michel Basquiat-inspired outsider art. The background is a distressed cream wall filled with exactly 6 small doodle elements: a black-rayed sun in the upper left, a red circular face-like symbol on the left, a blue rectangular figure with a tiny face on the mid-left, a black boxed face near the lower left, a tall stick-figure face in the upper right, and a black rectangular panel with white occult-like symbols in the lower right. Keep the composition square, tightly cropped around the lion's face, with high contrast, messy hand-drawn energy, no clean digital polish, and a gritty gallery-painting texture. Customize the subject as {animal_subject}, the emotional expression as {expression}, the dominant palette as {color_palette}, the art style as {art_style}, and the canvas format as {canvas_format}.
```

## Variables

Replace each `{variable}` before you paste the prompt.

| Variable | Label | Example |
|---|---|---|
| `{animal_subject}` | animal subject | lion |
| `{expression}` | expression | gaunt and exhausted |
| `{color_palette}` | color palette | ochre, burnt orange, brown, black, yellow, and dirty cream |
| `{art_style}` | art style | neo-expressionist mixed-media graffiti painting |
| `{canvas_format}` | canvas format | square |

## About

Generates a gritty Basquiat-inspired lion portrait suitable for expressive AI art, album covers, posters, or gallery-style wall art.

Prompt from YouMind OpenLab (github.com/YouMind-OpenLab).

## Credit and licence

Prompt by @library.typography on Promptclay, https://promptclay.com/prompts/gaunt-neo-expressionist-lion-vww3x8
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