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Linocut Botanical Illustration

Stable Diffusion
By Varun Sharma Tested with Stable Diffusion SDXL

Linocut 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 .

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Linocut print of a sunflower with bold carved lines in black ink with mustard yellow and green on cream
Linocut Botanical Illustration — Stable Diffusion SDXL, Aspect ratio 2:3
Commercial use included

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

Settings

Model
Stable Diffusion SDXL
Aspect ratio
2:3
Steps
30
CFG scale
7
Sampler
DPM++ 2M Karras

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.