Linocut Botanical Illustration
Stable DiffusionLinocut Botanical Illustration is an SDXL prompt for a 2:3 relief print. A single sunflower with bold carved lines and visible gouge marks in black ink with mustard and green on cream produces a hand-printed botanical illustration with no text.
Last tested: August 2026 with Stable Diffusion SDXL
Part of the Stable Diffusion prompt library · see more vintage prompts .
How to use this prompt
"Visible gouge marks" is the texture keyword that separates linocut from digital illustration — without it SDXL produces smooth vector lines that read as flat design. "High contrast black ink" is the linocut foundation; the two-colour overprint of mustard and green mimics multi-block printing. "Slight ink smudges at the edges" is the imperfection that sells the hand-printed quality; clean edges read as digital. The single sunflower with three leaves is deliberately sparse — linocut punishes fine detail because every line is a gouge. The warm cream paper is the traditional printmaking ground; white looks digital. The negative prompt blocks photorealism and smooth rendering that would erase the carved texture.
Variations to try
- Swap the sunflower for a cockerel with carved feathers in the same high-contrast linocut style
- Reduce to single-colour black ink only for a classic single-block linocut variant
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For developers — copy this prompt as JSON
{
"title": "Linocut Botanical Illustration",
"prompt": "A linocut print illustration of a single sunflower with three leaves and a stem, bold carved lines with visible gouge marks, high contrast black ink on warm cream paper, limited palette of mustard yellow and dark green added in a second pass, rustic hand-printed texture with slight ink smudges at the edges, no text, no letters",
"negative_prompt": "blurry, low quality, photorealistic, 3d render, gradient, smooth, digital, neon, pastel, text, watermark, border, frame, photograph",
"model": "Stable Diffusion",
"model_version": "SDXL",
"settings": {
"aspect_ratio": "2:3",
"steps": 30,
"cfg": 7,
"sampler": "DPM++ 2M Karras"
},
"style_tags": [
"vintage",
"botanical"
],
"use_case_tags": [
"illustration",
"wall-art"
],
"source_url": "https://promptkoi.com/prompts/stable-diffusion/linocut-botanical-illustration/"
}The whole library is available as an open JSON dataset · developer docs.
