# Stylized Gouache Folk Art Illustration

- Model: [GPT Image 2](/models/chatgpt-image.md)
- Creator: [Library Lifestyle (@library.lifestyle)](/@library.lifestyle.md)
- Label: AI-generated
- Use cases: Illustration
- AI keywords: portrait, playful
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- Published: 2026-11-01
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## Prompt

```text
Create a stylized gouache and marker illustration based on the following artistic style. Do not invent a new scene, transform the user’s reference photo using these exact visual characteristics:

•Style: Flat folk-art gouache illustration with bold opaque color and a matte poster-paint finish.
•Anatomy & Lines: Thick confident outlines, simplified blocky shapes, flat color fills with minimal shading, slightly rounded and softened proportions.
•Facial Features: Stylized heavy-lidded eyes with a graphic winged eyeliner flick, thin arched eyebrows, a long thin nose drawn with a single curved line, and small flat closed-mouth smiling lips. Clean, minimalist, doll-like facial structure.
•Complexion: Warm peachy skin tone, no freckles, with prominent solid rosy-pink circular blush on the cheeks (flat color, not stippled or textured).
•Composition: Close-up cropped portrait, {subject_description}. Interior rendered in flat navy-blue with dashed white stitch details on the seats and door panel. Through the window, a simplified scene with {background_elements}. Negative space above the figure filled with whimsical folk-art motifs: {decorative_motifs}, on a cream background.
•Color Palette: Warm tones (peach skin, mustard yellow, coral pink, brown hair) contrasted against cool accents (navy blue, sky blue, purple, green), with high saturation throughout and no gradients.
```

## Variables

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

| Variable | Label | Example |
|---|---|---|
| `{subject_description}` | subject description | subject resting cheek on hand with elbow raised, seated inside a car |
| `{background_elements}` | background elements | a small red cartoon car, a smiling cartoon driver, a yellow sun, scalloped blue-outlined clouds, and scattered decorativ |
| `{decorative_motifs}` | decorative motifs | stars, sprigs, dots, arches, and a flower |

## About

A detailed prompt for creating stylized folk-art gouache portraits with bold outlines and vibrant colors, designed to transform reference photos into whimsical marker-style illustrations.

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

## Credit and licence

Prompt by @library.lifestyle on Promptclay, https://promptclay.com/prompts/stylized-gouache-folk-art-illustration-9dfphg
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