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Colored Pencil Coast, made with GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst
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GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst art style promptColored Pencil Coast

The exact text-to-image prompt behind this picture, made with GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst.

Prompt

Vertical 4:5 portrait frame. A colored pencil illustration of a cliffside coastal road, a small white 1960s car on the winding road, pastel villages stacked on the hills, a turquoise sea, lemon branches framing the foreground, visible pencil strokes on warm paper, sunny and nostalgic travel art, no text.

Prompts are kept in their original English to help reproduce the example. Copy one as it is, or adapt it for your project.

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Settings

Mode
Text to image
Aspect ratio
4:5
Quality
high
Price
From 2 credits

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Make your own version

  1. A colored pencil illustration of a cliffside coastal road sets the whole feel of the shot. Swap it for another camera style to change the vibe.
  2. The prompt ends with no text. Leave that in, or the model may add random lettering.

Where this idea comes from

Inspired by an idea from @WolfRiccardo, collected in freestylefly/awesome-gpt-image-2 under MIT. PopNow wrote this prompt and made the example above.

Scene prompt guide

How the scene is composed

A vintage European coastal drive comes to life through gentle colored pencil textures, bright Mediterranean hues, and layered hillside architecture. GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst blends soft pencil hatching with distinct structural depth, keeping the foreground lemon branches and distant turquoise water balanced. The styling creates an authentic, nostalgic travel poster aesthetic without turning into a digital smear.

  1. Medium and framing setupVertical 4:5 portrait frame. A colored pencil illustration of a cliffside coastal road,

    Defines the hand-drawn colored pencil medium and the steep cliffside setting. Removing this causes the model to default to generic photorealism or clean vector artwork.

  2. Focal subject anchora small white 1960s car on the winding road,

    Places a scale reference and vintage narrative focal point onto the road. Changing this to a modern car or removing it makes the scene feel like an empty landscape.

  3. Background landscape layerspastel villages stacked on the hills, a turquoise sea,

    Builds the classic Mediterranean backdrop with layered vertical architecture and contrasting cool sea tones. Altering this changes the regional geography and color harmony.

  4. Depth and physical texturelemon branches framing the foreground, visible pencil strokes on warm paper,

    Adds depth via foreground framing foliage and forces genuine colored pencil paper grain. Without this, the image loses depth and looks flat or overly digital.

  5. Mood and negative constraintsunny and nostalgic travel art, no text.

    Establishes warm vacation lighting while preventing the model from inserting vintage travel poster typography across the sky or border.

Camera and light

This prompt relies on an elevated vantage point and crisp Mediterranean daylight to organize multiple layers of landscape into a coherent drawing.

Camera Angle
The prompt implies a high-angle overlook looking down on the coastal bends. Change to an eye-level road perspective to make the viewer feel like a passenger inside the car.
Lighting
Midday sunlight produces vibrant turquoise water and bright pastel walls. Switch to golden hour or sunset to create long amber cast shadows across the cliffside.
Framing and Scale
The lemon branches act as a natural top border that pushes the car deeper into the scene. Remove the branches if you prefer an expansive, uninterrupted horizon.

Variations on the scene

Golden hour sunset coast

Swaps midday sunlight for sunset glow and warm window lights to create a tranquil twilight mood.

Prompt

Vertical 4:5 portrait frame. A colored pencil illustration of a cliffside coastal road at sunset, a small white 1960s car on the winding road, pastel villages illuminated with warm glowing windows, a deep violet and orange sea, olive branches framing the foreground, visible pencil strokes on warm paper, nostalgic evening travel art, no text.

Eye-level coastal drive

Moves the perspective directly onto the road behind the vehicle for a more immersive travel view.

Prompt

Vertical 4:5 portrait frame. A colored pencil illustration from behind the steering wheel on a cliffside coastal road, a small white 1960s car ahead on the curve, pastel cliffside houses above, a turquoise sea stretching to the horizon, bougainvillea framing the road edge, visible pencil strokes on textured paper, sunny nostalgic travel art, no text.

Vintage scooter roadside overlook

Replaces the driving car with a parked vintage scooter to emphasize a peaceful scenic stop.

Prompt

Vertical 4:5 portrait frame. A colored pencil illustration of a cliffside coastal road overlook, a vintage teal scooter parked beside a stone wall, pastel villages stacked on the hills, a turquoise sea, lemon branches framing the foreground, visible pencil strokes on warm paper, sunny and nostalgic travel art, no text.

Model and settings

Keep the aspect ratio set to 4:5 to maintain the vertical poster composition and allow the stacked village and foreground branches to frame the road naturally. If you need a desktop background or panoramic banner, change the ratio to 16:9. Use high quality mode to ensure the fine colored pencil hatching and textured paper grain render crisply without turning into smoothed digital gradients.

  • Seedream 5.0 ProChoose Seedream 5.0 Pro when you want to feed in reference photos of a specific coastal town or exact vintage car to match real-world locations.
  • FLUX.2 ProSwitch to FLUX.2 Pro if you want strict control over specific hex color palettes for the pastel houses or plan to add readable vintage postcard lettering.

When the scene falls apart

Unwanted greeting card words or town names appear printed over the sky.
Strengthen the negative instruction by changing 'no text' to 'no text, clean unprinted sky, no lettering, no postcards'.
The image renders as a smooth digital 3D render instead of a hand-drawn illustration.
Emphasize physical materials by changing 'visible pencil strokes on warm paper' to 'coarse colored pencil cross-hatching, heavy crayon texture on rough kraft paper'.
The foreground lemon branches obscure the car or clutter the entire frame.
Specify placement precisely by changing 'lemon branches framing the foreground' to 'a single subtle lemon branch along the top edge'.

Questions about this scene prompt

How do I make the colored pencil texture look more hand-drawn and rough?

Add descriptors like rough paper tooth, heavy cross-hatching, or colored pencil sketch with visible paper grain showing through. This prevents the AI from blending pencil marks into smooth digital gradients.

Can I change the location to another coastal region while keeping this style?

Yes, swap lemon branches and pastel villages for regional landmarks, such as whitewashed Cycladic houses and olive trees for Greece, or pine trees and rugged cliffs for California.

Why is the car sometimes oversized compared to the winding road?

Specify scale explicitly in the prompt by writing a tiny white 1960s car seen from a high distance. This reinforces the aerial scale against the broad cliffside landscape.

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