AI image recipe
Gouache Storybook Illustration with Bold Dry-Brush Texture
A prompt for generating a children’s storybook illustration with simplified characters, bold painted shapes, and a hand-made gouache look. The style uses opaque flat color blocks, visible dry-brush strokes, rough uneven edges, minimal facial details, and a limited earthy palette, creating the feel of a vintage picture book or modern editorial children’s illustration.
Exact prompt
Midjourney V8.2
Vertical 3:4 storybook illustration. A sweet and small 3 year old girl with a black chin length bob, short uneven bangs, rosy cheeks, small dark almond eyes, and a gentle smile. She wears an ivory A line dress, bare legs, and muddy vermilion rubber boots. Full body view; figure occupies ~60% of image height, centered horizontally, slightly below center. She walks right in mid step, torso slightly toward viewer, gaze lowered. She cradles ~twelve thick orange red carrots against her chest, fanning from chin to waist, feathery green tops near her right shoulder. Blue green cabbage and grass fill the foreground. A distant wooden farmhouse with steep roof sits upper center right among layered trees and shrubs. Deep forest greens, teal shadows, warm ivory, vivid orange red accents. Soft summer sunlight, peaceful nostalgic atmosphere, no borders --chaos 10 --ar 3:4 --sref 3881617