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Plainclothes
An engine-agnostic style recipe: a wide hero, proof shots across subjects, and a portable prompt.
1 hero · 4 proofs
Prompt template
{subject}, in the style of Plainclothes — 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 edgeSlot recipes
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
Credits · in the lineage of
- Seinen manga inking and screentoneMovementhigh-contrast two-tone halftone tonal shading inherited from parent style Stakeout Bureau, with the surveillance apparatus removed
- Graphic-novel / noir comics tonal panel shadingMovementquiet everyday scenes and portraits rendered as ink-black and paper-white tonal panels
A generated style is an aggregate of many influences — credit is given to the artists and traditions it draws on, not a claim of authorship.
produced by unrecorded · sourced by unrecorded · images by openai/gpt-image-2
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remix with this style
Apply Plainclothes to any UI language and swap the palette — the preview takes this style's hero image.
Needs a Published language and palette to remix.