Fountain Pen and Inkwell Desk
FluxFountain Pen and Inkwell Desk is a Flux.1 dev prompt for a 3:2 writing-desk still life. Leaving the cream paper blank and banning handwriting prevents the garbled script that ruins most pen product shots.
Last tested: August 2026 with Flux Flux.1 dev
Part of the Flux prompt library · see more vintage prompts .
Prompt
Still life on a walnut writing desk, a piston-fill fountain pen with a gold nib uncapped beside a glass inkwell of deep blue-black ink, a sheet of cream laid paper with no writing on it, a blotter and a brass pen rest, soft window light from the left with a long soft shadow, shallow depth of field focused on the nib tip catching a bright highlight, no handwriting, no logos on the pen, no text
Settings
- Model
- Flux Flux.1 dev
- Aspect ratio
- 3:2
- Steps
- 28
- CFG scale
- 3.5
How to use this prompt
Any mention of writing invites the model to invent handwriting, and invented handwriting always looks wrong. Leave the paper explicitly blank and ban handwriting and logos. Focus the light cue on the nib tip — a single bright highlight there is what makes a gold nib read as metal rather than plastic. Soft window light from one side gives the ink in the glass a meniscus and a gradient; overhead light flattens both into a dark circle. Do not ask for a brand name on the barrel.
Variations to try
- Add a second pen capped, different resin colour, both resting on the blotter at slight angles
- Tighter macro of the nib alone dipping toward the inkwell mouth, desk soft behind
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What to do next
For developers — copy this prompt as JSON
{
"title": "Fountain Pen and Inkwell Desk",
"prompt": "Still life on a walnut writing desk, a piston-fill fountain pen with a gold nib uncapped beside a glass inkwell of deep blue-black ink, a sheet of cream laid paper with no writing on it, a blotter and a brass pen rest, soft window light from the left with a long soft shadow, shallow depth of field focused on the nib tip catching a bright highlight, no handwriting, no logos on the pen, no text",
"model": "Flux",
"model_version": "Flux.1 dev",
"settings": {
"aspect_ratio": "3:2",
"steps": 28,
"cfg": 3.5
},
"style_tags": [
"vintage",
"photorealistic"
],
"use_case_tags": [
"product-photography",
"branding"
],
"source_url": "https://promptkoi.com/prompts/flux/fountain-pen-and-inkwell-desk/"
}The whole library is available as an open JSON dataset · developer docs.
