Prompting: Using a Limited Palette / Woodcut across 18 models
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Prompting: Using a Limited Palette / Woodcut across 18 models
Sometimes using a limited palette is cool. For example, if you are doing a style that simulates woodcut printing, using a limited palette can make it look more authentic. A unique combination of colors creates its own emotional vibe.
Woodcut is a relief‑printing method in which an artist carves a design into a wooden surface, inks the raised areas, and prints the image; it’s the broad, global term used across many cultures. Woodblock, by contrast, is often used more specifically for East Asian traditions—especially Japanese ukiyo‑e. Often, tho, the terms are treated as interchangeable, as all woodblock prints are woodcuts.
Baba Yaga’s house is a traveling house on chicken legs walking wherever. Its windows glow like watchful eyes, giving the sense that the house is alive and sentient.
I did the 6 images originally for Day 38 prompt share, 8/10/26. I created new ones for the blog to compare more models
Prompt:
palette of intense hues of terracotta, black, cream, turquoise, olive. 1400s woodcut. Baba Yaga's house.
Grok 2 / Wan 2.6 / Flux 2 Pro / GPT2 Low / Nano Banana 2 Lite / SeeDream 5 Pro / Grok / Krea 2 Medium / Seedream 4.5 / Ideogram V4 / ImagineArt 1.5 / Recraft v4 / Qwen 3 / Kling v3 / Flux 2 Klein / Minimax / Z Image Turbo / P-image
Basically the prompt has 3 components: the house, the 1400s woodcut and the limited palette. To do a quick riff on the prompt
A. Change the main subject from Baba Yaga's house to ....
B. Swap out the colors. I suggest keeping black tho. It tends to add depth.
C. Woodcuts have existed since the 7th century to now so swap in any century you like for a different vibe. The Asian woodblock printing like ukiyo-e is also considered woodcuts so name the country or continent you like too.
Grok 2
Wan 2.6
Flux 2 Pro
GPT2 Low
Nano Banana 2 Lite
Grok
Seedream 5 Pro
Krea 2 Medium
Seedream 4.5
Ideogram v4
ImagineArt 1.5
Recraft v4
Qwen v3
Kling v3
Flux 2 Klein
Minimax
Z Image Turbo
P-Image
Extras
These were the first few when I was deciding what art style to go for and minor changes in language.
GPT2 Low: Use only this palette of intense hues of terracotta, sand, crea, turqoise, olive. Japanese 1500s woodcut. Baba Yaga's house.
GPT2 Low: Use only this palette: terracotta, sand, crea, turqoise, olive. art brut. Baba Yaga's house.
GPT2 Low: Use only this palette of intense hues of terracotta, sand, crea, turqoise, olive. art brut. Baba Yaga's house.
GPT2 Low: Use only this palette: terracotta, sand, crea, turqoise, olive.
✏️🖍️. Baba Yaga's house.
GPT2 Low: Use only this palette of intense hues of terracotta, sand, crea, turqoise, olive. 1500s woodcut. Baba Yaga's house.
GPT2 Low: Use only this palette of intense hues of terracotta, sand, cream, turquoise, olive. 1400s woodcut. Baba Yaga's house.
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Comments (9)
Cool images, most did a great job of style and subject
nice work, z-image and p-image digress a lot
Yeah, I don't think they know what Baba Yaga's house is so they just did a house. I think the cheaper models have less computing power so they don't do as much research before giving an image. They need more description to function. with models like GPT which is connected to an AI assistant model company that is built around the same time, I thinkj there is a more robust database so those models have more info to work from, not just images. It's just my theory tho.
I agree. It's interesting to see which models know what Baba Yaga's house is. Since I didn't describe it, the reference has to be in their database.
Thank you for the lovely comment and the supportive award. I'm happy you like seeing how different do the same prompt
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