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Surreal Rubber-Hose Ink Style Illustration

A detailed JSON prompt for generating a black and white illustration in the surreal 1930s rubber hose animation style. The prompt emphasizes high-contrast line art, heavy cross-hatching/stippling, and specific character features like a melting/dripping aesthetic, wide toothy grins, and hollow black eyes, aiming for a vintage underground comic vibe.

Prompt

{
"style_name": "Surreal Rubber-Hose Ink",
"Subject": "{argument name=\"Subject\" default=\"[SUBJECT]\"}",
"prompt_structure": {
"prefix": "A subject designed in a surreal 1930s rubber hose animation style.",
"core_aesthetic": "Hand-drawn black and white ink illustration, clean white background.",
"shading_technique": "High-contrast line art, heavy use of cross-hatching and stippling for shading.",
"character_features": "Melting and dripping aesthetic, wide toothy grins, hollow black eyes.",
"vibe": "Vintage underground comic, minimalist but detailed textures, clean outlines.",
"full_composite_prompt": "Designed in a surreal 1930s rubber hose animation style. Hand-drawn black and white ink illustration on a clean white background. Features high-contrast line art with heavy use of cross-hatching and stippling for shading. The character has a melting, dripping aesthetic, wide toothy grins, and hollow black eyes. Vintage underground comic vibe, minimalist but detailed textures, clean outlines."
},
"negative_prompt": "color, gradients, 3d render, photo, realistic, grey tones, blurry, messy lines, background scenery, cropped, out of frame, cut off",
"recommended_settings": {
"aspect_ratio": "1:1",
"color_palette": "Monochrome / Black and White"
}
}

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Prompt source
Author
ibexdream
Updated
Feb 12, 2026
Source
X Post
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License

CC BY 4.0. Prompt pages keep the original attribution and source links from the upstream gallery records stored in the database.

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