Fashion Croquis: Ink-Line Walking Figure

Stable Diffusion

By Varun Sharma Tested with Stable Diffusion SDXL 1.0 Aug 9, 2026

An SDXL prompt for a fashion croquis — a loose gestural ink line of a walking figure in a flowing dress with translucent terracotta-sage watercolour wash on cream paper, no text.

Last tested: August 2026 with Stable Diffusion SDXL 1.0

Part of the Stable Diffusion prompt library · see more watercolor prompts .

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Fashion croquis with a loose ink-line walking figure in a flowing dress and translucent watercolour wash on cream paper — Fashion Croquis: Ink-Line Walking Figure — Stable Diffusion SDXL 1.0, Aspect ratio 2:3

How to use this prompt

"Croquis" is the word that sets the whole brief — it is the designer's quick study, loose by definition, and naming it stops SDXL rendering a finished illustration that loses the sketch energy. "Loose gestural ink line" plus "construction marks at the joints" are the vocabulary of a real croquis; without the joint marks the figure looks polished rather than studied. Translucent watercolour wash is the colour note; "opaque" or "flat" would kill the lightness. Warm cream paper is the ground; white reads digital. The negative prompt's "heavy shading" ban matters because SDXL defaults to cross-hatching that weighs the sketch down. One figure only — the "multiple figures" ban keeps the study focused.

Variations to try

Redraw the figure seated at a café table for a travel-fashion croquis
Recolour the wash to cobalt and ochre for a bold designer-pitch study

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For developers — copy this prompt as JSON

{
  "title": "Fashion Croquis: Ink-Line Walking Figure",
  "prompt": "A fashion croquis illustration, a loose gestural ink line of a walking female figure in a flowing midi dress, translucent watercolour wash in muted terracotta and sage on warm cream paper, visible brush bleed, a few quick construction marks at the joints, no text, no letters, no numerals",
  "negative_prompt": "photorealistic, 3d render, sharp hard edges, text, words, watermark, signature, heavy shading, dark background, neon, oversaturated, multiple figures",
  "model": "Stable Diffusion",
  "model_version": "SDXL 1.0",
  "settings": {
    "aspect_ratio": "2:3",
    "steps": 28,
    "cfg": 6,
    "sampler": "DPM++ 2M Karras"
  },
  "style_tags": [
    "watercolor",
    "line-art"
  ],
  "use_case_tags": [
    "fashion",
    "illustration"
  ],
  "source_url": "https://promptkoi.com/prompts/stable-diffusion/fashion-portrait-croquis-ink-wash/"
}

The whole library is available as an open JSON dataset · developer docs.