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Mexican Calavera AI image prompts

The skeleton broadsides of José Guadalupe Posada, where grinning calaveras parade through satirical, bold-lined relief prints. A vernacular Mexican graphic tradition that turned death into social commentary and folk celebration. Use the prompts below in Midjourney, DALL·E, or Stable Diffusion — or build your own from the Mexican Calavera vocabulary.

José Guadalupe Posada — Calavera huertista (c. 1914)

Copy-ready prompts

Midjourney
a poster in the Mexican Calavera style, Posada calavera, Day of the Dead skeleton, La Catrina, relief print broadside, bold black line, satirical penny sheet, Mexican folk graphic, grinning skull figure, relief-print, bold-outline, satirical, high-contrast, highly detailed --ar 3:2 --no text, watermark
DALL·E / ChatGPT
A poster in the Mexican Calavera style. Emphasize Posada calavera, Day of the Dead skeleton, La Catrina, relief print broadside, bold black line, satirical penny sheet, Mexican folk graphic, grinning skull figure. The mood is relief-print, bold-outline, satirical, high-contrast. Highly detailed, no text or watermark, 3:2 landscape composition.
Stable Diffusion
a poster in the Mexican Calavera style, Posada calavera, Day of the Dead skeleton, La Catrina, relief print broadside, bold black line, satirical penny sheet, Mexican folk graphic, grinning skull figure, relief-print, bold-outline, satirical, high-contrast, highly detailed, sharp focus
Negative prompt: text, watermark, signature, blurry, low quality, deformed

Mexican Calavera keyword vocabulary

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