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Manga Panel Prompt: Original Character, Screentone, Motion
Write a ChatGPT image prompt for an original manga panel: character sheet, camera angle, ink and screentone, speed lines, and a 4-panel page plan to follow.
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Prompt
Act as a manga storyboard artist and inker who writes ChatGPT image prompts for original manga panels. You lock the character design first, pick a camera angle that sells the beat, and describe the look in craft terms (ink weight, screentone, speed lines, panel shape), never by naming manga artists, studios, series, or existing characters. Inputs: - My original character (age range, hair, face, outfit, one signature item): [OriginalCharacter] - The story beat for this panel: [SceneBeat] - Setting, time of day, and weather: [Setting] - Mood and genre (action, slice of life, comedy, mystery): [Mood] - Panel shape and aspect ratio: [PanelShape] - Black and white with screentone, or limited color: [InkStyle] - What comes before and after this panel: [PageContext] Generate: 1. Character lock: a 5-line description of OriginalCharacter to repeat in every prompt so the design stays the same. 2. Panel prompt: one paragraph for ChatGPT image generation with the character lock, pose, camera angle and lens feel, setting, ink and screentone treatment, motion lines, and lighting. End with "no text, no speech balloons, no sound effects lettering". 3. Why this angle: one or two lines on how the camera choice sells SceneBeat. 4. Page plan: 4 panels around this one using PageContext, each with shot size, angle, and the beat, so the page reads in the reading direction I name. 5. Fix list: sentences to add when hands, the signature item, hair shape, or line weight drift on a retry. 6. Lettering note: where speech balloons and sound effects should go later, and to letter them myself in an editing app. Rules: - Original characters only. No existing characters, series, studio names, or living artists' names. - Keep the character lock word for word across prompts. - No readable text in the image; I will add lettering myself. - Keep content suitable for the Mood and audience I give.
Instructions
Fill in your own character once and reuse the character lock for every panel. Generate the wide panel first, then the other three from the page plan, and letter the page yourself at the end.
Generated Output
This image was generated using the prompt above.
Examples
Example Input
OriginalCharacter: Mina, a teenage courier, short silver bob with a cowlick on the right side, determined eyes, long scarf, zip-up jacket, cargo shorts, sneakers, a square delivery bag strapped across her back. SceneBeat: Mina leaps the gap between two rooftops to make a late delivery. Setting: a city of low apartment rooftops with water tanks and laundry lines, dusk, light rain. Mood: action. PanelShape: wide establishing panel, 16:9. InkStyle: black and white with screentone. PageContext: before, she checks the time on her phone; after, she lands and rolls.
Example Output
1. CHARACTER LOCK Mina, a teenage girl courier. Short silver bob, cowlick on the right side. Determined eyes, mouth set in a line. Long scarf, zip-up jacket, cargo shorts, sneakers. Square delivery bag strapped across her back. 2. PANEL PROMPT Black and white manga panel, wide 16:9 establishing shot. [Character lock.] Mina is mid-leap across the gap between two apartment rooftops, body stretched forward, arms reaching ahead, one knee bent, her long scarf streaming behind her and the delivery bag swinging on her back. Low side angle so the drop between the buildings shows below her. Rooftops with water tanks and laundry lines, light rain falling at a slant, dusk sky rendered in gradient screentone. Bold clean ink outlines, heavier line weight on Mina, finer lines on the buildings, dot screentone for shadows, horizontal speed lines behind her. No text, no speech balloons, no sound effects lettering. 3. WHY THIS ANGLE A low side view shows the gap and the height at once, so the reader feels the risk of the jump in one look. 4. PAGE PLAN (right to left) Panel 1, close-up, slight high angle: Mina glances at her phone, rain on the screen. Panel 2, medium shot: she starts running across the first roof, laundry flapping. Panel 3, wide (this panel): the leap across the gap. Panel 4, medium low angle: she lands and rolls on the far roof, bag still on her back. 5. FIX LIST Hands warped: add "two hands with five fingers each, open and reaching forward". Bag missing: add "the square delivery bag is clearly visible on her back". Hair changed: add "short bob with a cowlick on the right side, not long hair". Lines too thin: add "bold outer ink lines on the character". 6. LETTERING NOTE Leave the sky above the right roof empty for a sound effect, and the top left corner for a caption. Letter them yourself in an editing app after you pick the final image.