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Loose watercolour city sketch

A light urban-sketch style watercolour of a street corner with ink lines and soft washes. Paste this prompt into ChatGPT, Gemini or Grok, change the parts in brackets to suit you, and generate.

Written for
ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok
Status
Tested 27 Sep 2026 in Gemini app (web), Flash mode with built-in image generation
Test settings
Default copy text pasted unchanged into a new Gemini chat. No reference image. First result used; only converted to WebP.
Variability
Layout, colours and small details change between runs. Gemini adds a small sparkle watermark in the corner.
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Prompt
Scene: a corner of old Kolkata near a tram line with old buildings, balconies, a tree, a few small figures and a parked bicycle.
Composition: slightly tilted two-point perspective, sky and foreground left mostly white.
Technique: quick fountain-pen ink lines, then loose transparent watercolour washes that bleed past the lines, visible paper texture and small splatters.
Colour: warm ochre, faded green and brick red, shadows in cool violet.
Style: urban sketcher's journal page, spontaneous and airy.
Format: horizontal 4:3
Avoid: photorealism, heavy outlines, digital gradients, readable shop signs or text, perfect straight lines, watermarks.

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For example: a corner of old Kolkata near a tram line.

For example: warm ochre, faded green and brick red.

Fields start with illustrative values; replace them with your own facts. The prompt updates as you type. Copy prompt copies your version.

How to use it

  1. Open an external image tool named above. Check Status for the provider actually tested.
  2. Paste the prompt. Replace anything in [BRACKETS] first, or use Customise.
  3. Send, then ask for small changes in follow-up messages.
How to use this prompt
  1. This prompt makes a new picture. Check the AI app named above and the real test recorded in Status.
  2. Fill Customise with what you want, or replace [BRACKETS] with the right details. Press Copy prompt and paste it into the image app you chose.
  3. When the picture is ready, check objects, hands, faces, writing and any detail that matters. Ask for one clear correction if something is missing.

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  • Models may over-finish the painting; ask for 'more white paper and looser washes' to keep it sketchy.

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