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Fashion Croquis with Fabric Swatches — Design Sketch

ChatGPT (DALL·E)
By Varun Sharma Tested with ChatGPT (DALL·E) GPT Image 2

A GPT Image 2 prompt for a fashion croquis with fabric swatches — an elongated nine-head figure in a structured peplum-waist midi dress, loose ink linework with flat gouache fills, three fabric swatch patches with handwritten-style notations on off-white sketchbook paper.

Last tested: August 2026 with ChatGPT (DALL·E) GPT Image 2

Part of the ChatGPT (DALL·E) prompt library · see more watercolor prompts .

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Nine-head fashion croquis in a peplum-waist midi dress with fabric swatches along the margin
Fashion Croquis with Fabric Swatches — Design Sketch — ChatGPT (DALL·E) GPT Image 2, Aspect ratio 2:3
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Prompt 

A fashion design croquis of a female figure in a structured midi dress, the figure drawn in elongated nine-head proportions with loose confident ink linework, the dress a fitted bodice with a peplum waist and a knee-length A-line skirt, rendered with flat gouache fills in two fabric colourways, visible watercolour texture at the edges, the figure's head a simple oval with no facial features and a suggested updo, one hand on the hip and the other raised, three rectangular fabric swatch patches arranged along the left margin with small handwritten-style notation marks beside each, plain off-white sketchbook paper background with a faint paper grain, a small colour pencil and a measuring tape drawn at the bottom corner

Settings

Model
ChatGPT (DALL·E) GPT Image 2
Aspect ratio
2:3

How to use this prompt

"Nine-head proportions" is the phrase that tells DALL-E to stretch the figure into the elongated silhouette a fashion croquis requires, because DALL-E's default is realistic body proportions that read as a portrait rather than a design sketch. "Head a simple oval with no facial features" is the rule that keeps the focus on the garment — a rendered face distracts from the silhouette and turns the sketch into an illustration. "Two fabric colourways" with "flat gouache fills" is what makes the dress read as a designed garment rather than a coloured drawing. The three fabric swatches with "handwritten-style notation marks" are a real designer convention, and the corner colour pencil and measuring tape anchor the sketchbook page.

Variations to try

  • Redraw as a menswear croquis: a tailored blazer with notched lapels and chalk-mark fitting notations
  • Add a back-view croquis beside the main figure showing the dress's open-back detail
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For developers — copy this prompt as JSON 
{
  "title": "Fashion Croquis with Fabric Swatches — Design Sketch",
  "prompt": "A fashion design croquis of a female figure in a structured midi dress, the figure drawn in elongated nine-head proportions with loose confident ink linework, the dress a fitted bodice with a peplum waist and a knee-length A-line skirt, rendered with flat gouache fills in two fabric colourways, visible watercolour texture at the edges, the figure's head a simple oval with no facial features and a suggested updo, one hand on the hip and the other raised, three rectangular fabric swatch patches arranged along the left margin with small handwritten-style notation marks beside each, plain off-white sketchbook paper background with a faint paper grain, a small colour pencil and a measuring tape drawn at the bottom corner",
  "model": "ChatGPT (DALL·E)",
  "model_version": "GPT Image 2",
  "settings": {
    "aspect_ratio": "2:3"
  },
  "style_tags": [
    "watercolor",
    "line-art"
  ],
  "use_case_tags": [
    "fashion",
    "illustration"
  ],
  "source_url": "https://promptkoi.com/prompts/dalle/fashion-croquis-fabric-swatch/"
}

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