Pencil and Ink Sketch Illustration Prompt
A prompt for converting an uploaded image into a refined pencil and ink sketch illustration.

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- Prompt
- Use the uploaded image as the primary reference for composition, proportions, pose, objects, and overall layout. Preserve the original identity and facial features accurately. Convert the image into a refined pencil and ink sketch illustration. Use clean hand-drawn line work, controlled cross-hatching, and soft shading to define form and depth. Keep facial features, eyes, and hands sharp and expressive while allowing background details to remain minimal and lightly sketched. Overall look should feel like a professional hand-drawn illustration—elegant, timeless, and artistic (not cartoon).
- Negative Prompt
- identity change, face mismatch, cartoon, anime, messy scribbles, heavy black fills, low quality, blur, noise, distorted anatomy, extra limbs, text, watermark, logo
- Style
- pencil and ink sketch illustration
- Mood
- classic, artistic, calm
- Lighting
- illustrative light shading
- Texture
- paper grain, pencil strokes
- Render Quality
- ultra high resolution, hand-drawn quality
- Reference Strength
- 0.9
Raw JSON
{
"prompt": "Use the uploaded image as the primary reference for composition, proportions, pose, objects, and overall layout. Preserve the original identity and facial features accurately. Convert the image into a refined pencil and ink sketch illustration. Use clean hand-drawn line work, controlled cross-hatching, and soft shading to define form and depth. Keep facial features, eyes, and hands sharp and expressive while allowing background details to remain minimal and lightly sketched. Overall look should feel like a professional hand-drawn illustration—elegant, timeless, and artistic (not cartoon).",
"negative_prompt": "identity change, face mismatch, cartoon, anime, messy scribbles, heavy black fills, low quality, blur, noise, distorted anatomy, extra limbs, text, watermark, logo",
"style": "pencil and ink sketch illustration",
"mood": "classic, artistic, calm",
"lighting": "illustrative light shading",
"texture": "paper grain, pencil strokes",
"render_quality": "ultra high resolution, hand-drawn quality",
"reference_strength": 0.9
}How to use Pencil and Ink Sketch Illustration Prompt in 3 steps
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- 2…a portrait of your subject in softgolden-hour light, 85mm…
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- 3
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| If the result… | Why | Fix |
|---|---|---|
| The result drifts from the preview | Too many fields changed at once. | Reuse Pencil and Ink Sketch Illustration Prompt as-is first, then change one group — subject, light, or setting. |
| Nano Banana 2 ignores part of the JSON | Some models flatten or skip nested keys. | Keep the same values and paste them as a short paragraph instead. |
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