Fashion Croquis: Ink-Line Walking Figure
Stable DiffusionAn 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 .
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
Settings
- Model
- Stable Diffusion SDXL 1.0
- Aspect ratio
- 2:3
- Steps
- 28
- CFG scale
- 6
- Sampler
- DPM++ 2M Karras
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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{
"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.