# Create a watercolour illustration prompt

A prompt for soft watercolour-style illustrations for cards, prints, book covers and social posts.

- Topic: Images, Video & Design
- Framework: Zero-Shot
- Level: Standard
- Tags: Design, AI & Prompting, Generate Image, Fill-in Template
- Source: https://www.thinkwithprompt.com/prompts/create-a-watercolour-illustration-prompt

## Prompt

```text
Create a watercolour illustration.

**Subject:** [e.g. a quiet harbour at dawn / a bouquet of wildflowers in a jar / a fox in a snowy forest]
**Colour palette:** [soft pastels / muted earth tones / vibrant: COLOURS]
**Composition:** [centred subject with white space / full scene / vignette that fades to white edges]
**Use:** [greeting card / wall print / book cover / social post]
**Aspect ratio:** [5:7 / 1:1 / 4:5]

Style: traditional watercolour on textured cold-press paper, soft wet-on-wet blends, visible pigment granulation, delicate pencil underdrawing, gentle light, hand-painted feel.

Avoid: text, digital-looking hard edges, oversaturation, imitation of any named living artist.
```

## What to fill in

- soft pastels / muted earth tones / vibrant: COLOURS
- greeting card / wall print / book cover / social post

Free to copy and use. From ThinkWithPrompt (https://www.thinkwithprompt.com/), a library of 2,663 curated AI prompts.