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A Specimen Butterfly Pasted on Old Wallpaper
Laid out flat like a botanical plate, wings so fine you can see the veins, with the gongbi feel of Chinese wallpaper.
✍️ Naming the wings, antennae, legs and body one by one forces the model to draw every part instead of smearing them into a speckled blob. "flat in air" is the most useful phrase: a flat spread floating in the air equals a specimen plate, and no background grows in. The trick transfers well to insect illustration.
📋 Prompt Midjourney Parameter Style
Paint a single butterfly flat against the page, drawn in a vintage botanical-plate manner and rendered with the delicate, decorative look of antique Chinese wallpaper painting. Give it unusual, finely patterned upper wings, thin feathery antennae, slender legs and a clear segmented body. Keep it ornamental and precise, floating in air with no ground beneath it. --v 8.2






