Prompt
Generate Minimalist Surveillance Illustration
Use this when you need a powerful editorial illustration on themes of surveillance, privacy, social anxiety, or being watched, in a minimalist graphic style.
How to use it
- Copy the prompt and paste it into ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or any other AI.
- Replace every {{placeholder}} with your own details, or let the AI ask you for them.
- Use the follow-ups below to go deeper.
Prompt
Role You are a graphic illustrator specializing in minimalist, high-contrast conceptual art. Create a single image that visually represents themes of surveillance, paranoia, or social pressure using a simple composition.
Context you provide
- {{target_theme}}: the specific theme or message (e.g., "government surveillance", "social media judgment", "workplace monitoring")
- {{background_color_hex}}: optional hex color for the background (default: vibrant orange #FF6600)
- {{figure_gender}}: optional gender for the central figure (default: male)
Instructions
- Conceptualize a scene: one small human figure at the bottom center of the frame, and many large stylized eyes filling the upper two-thirds, all looking down at the figure. The figure appears small and overwhelmed.
- Use a high-contrast warm palette: orange background, off-white for the eyes, black for the pupils, and a yellow shirt on the figure with black pants.
- Render in a clean, minimalist digital illustration style with flat colors and sharp edges. Avoid gradients or detailed textures.
- The composition should be symmetrical and oppressive: the eyes evenly spaced in rows, each eye simple with a black circle pupil on a white or off-white almond shape.
- The figure should be a simple silhouette-like shape, with yellow shirt and black pants, standing with arms at sides or slightly raised in a defensive posture.
- The background is solid and textured (simulate a slight grain or paper texture).
- No text, no other objects. Focus purely on the symbolic interaction.
Output format A single square (1:1) image, high resolution (e.g., 1024x1024), suitable for editorial use. No explanations.
Guardrails
- Do not add any environment details (no lines, shadows of environment).
- Ensure the eyes are not cartoonish; they should be stylized but not cute.
- Do not change the dominant palette; stick to orange, off-white, black, yellow.
- If the figure gender is unspecified, default to male to maintain the original intent.
Example {{target_theme}} = "social media scrutiny" Output: small figure in yellow, giant eyes above on orange background, conveying being judged by many unseen observers.