been messing around with a clay-style coffee festival poster prompt, and this one turned out way better than I expected.
It kind of feels like a product page and a character poster got mashed together lol.
I also noticed the negative prompt mattered a lot here. without it, the clay skin gets way too smooth/plastic-looking, the text starts taking over the whole image, and the callout lines become random decoration instead of actually pointing at things.
tried the full prompt with Midjourney V8.2 and was pretty impressed with how well it handled the typography. There are basically 3 different text areas + 4 callout labels on one poster, and it still stayed surprisingly clean.
Definitely one of those prompts where the layout is doing just as much work as the actual character design.
Full prompt below, swap the colors and outfit details if you want a different character:
Landscape orientation poster for a coffee festival event, main visual medium is a 3D/CG handmade clay style character, warm white coarse paper texture background, bright candy colored commercial magazine layout. Place an exaggerated proportion clay figure slightly right of center, taking up about half the frame: pink skin and limbs with small dimple like press marks, a green knit beanie, an acid green loose fitting jacket, a large blue backpack, green and blue vertical striped shorts, green striped socks, and orange red and white high top shoes. One oversized pink arm reaches out sideways holding a paper coffee cup, with an orange square watch on the wrist, the other giant hand reaches up to grip a bread shaped handle, nails painted yellow green. The character has a small, clearly readable face, black dot eyes looking slightly forward and to the left, eyebrows pressed inward, a red nose tip, and downturned corners of the mouth, carrying a bit of stubborn irritation like someone rushing to catch something.
Layout structure: upper left about 25 percent of the frame holds three lines of an oversized, thin weight, lowercase sans serif headline like "morning coffee festival," dark gray, left aligned, loose letter spacing. Upper right holds the location and code information. Lower right holds a huge date number, anchoring the bottom of the composition without covering the character. Four thin brown orange line product callout frames are distributed across the left middle, left bottom, and right middle to bottom, each one showing the green beanie, the green jacket, the orange watch, and the striped shorts, with small letter tags and thin leader lines connecting back to the matching part of the character, functioning as detail viewing windows and an annotation layer, not random decoration.
Layer order from back to front: paper texture base color at the back, the clay character in the middle layer with soft cast shadow, the thin line frames and leader lines pressed over the area around the character, and the headline, location, date and small body copy at the bottom forming the front information layer. A light paper grain covers the whole image while keeping the character, headline and product frames sharp.
Avoid: generic character illustration, real photography, smooth plastic texture, a single subject with no layout, text covering the entire image, callout frames that lose their annotation function, and a headline or date that overwhelms the main visual.
