Plainclothes
Illustration: Halftone shading, Hatching, Brush contours
Changed from Stakeout Bureau
The prompt
{subject}, a quiet high-contrast black-and-white graphic-novel ink treatment, {palette}, the subject rendered entirely in matte ink black and bone-white with no grey wash, all tone built from dense halftone dot fields and sharp screentone hatching laid in as flat tonal panel shading, confident clean brushline contours, generous negative space and uncluttered composition, cinematic restraint, fills the frame edge to edge
- Materials
- Matte ink, Screentone texture
- Techniques
- Halftone shading, Hatching, Brush contours
Slot recipes
How the prompt changes for each kind of picture.
- Hero: a wide establishing scene, one figure mid-gesture, generous negative space on one side
- Feature: a small vignette of hands doing the task
- Avatar: tight portrait bust, screentone shading on one cheek, white ground
- Empty state: a single everyday object casting a halftone shadow
- Illustration: one figure and one object interacting on an uncluttered ground
In the lineage of
- Seinen manga inking and screentone, movement. high-contrast two-tone halftone tonal shading inherited from parent style Stakeout Bureau, with the surveillance apparatus removed
- Graphic-novel / noir comics tonal panel shading, movement. quiet everyday scenes and portraits rendered as ink-black and paper-white tonal panels
A generated style is an aggregate of many influences. Credit goes to the artists and traditions it draws on; it is not a claim of authorship.
Produced by unrecorded, sourced by unrecorded, images by openai/gpt-image-2
Remix with this style
Apply Plainclothes to any UI language and swap the palette: the preview takes this style's hero image.