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Suiboku

An engine-agnostic style recipe: a wide hero, proof shots across subjects, and a portable prompt.

sumi ink wash

1 hero · 3 proofs

Prompt template

{subject}, in the style of Suiboku monochrome ink-wash painting: the form built from confident gestural black calligraphic brushstrokes on warm bone-ivory paper, soft smoke-like ink-wash bleeds and feathered gradients shaping the volumes, dry-brush split-bristle texture in the detailed passages, one or two deep pure-black saturated accents anchoring the composition while edges dissolve into pale ivory negative space, visible water-and-ink granulation and irregular bleeding margins, {palette}, asymmetric breathing void around the subject, full-frame composition

Slot recipes

hero — {subject} as a sweeping full-bleed ink-wash plate, the main gesture entering from one side and dissolving into a wide ivory void on the other; deepest pure-black accent set against the largest area of bone paper for dramatic asymmetric balance

feature — {subject} rendered as a curated ink plate centred-left with a smoke-wash halo, dry-brush texture on the focal edge, calm ivory margin held to one side like a museum label

avatar — tight three-quarter crop of {subject} in confident gestural strokes, eyes or focal point in saturated pure black, soft wash falloff to ivory at the edges, square composition

empty-state — a single restrained ink gesture suggesting {subject} adrift in a large ivory field, minimal dry-brush marks, mostly breathing negative space with one small black accent

illustration — {subject} built from layered ink washes and overlapping calligraphic strokes, smoke veils threading through the scene, granulated bleeding edges, monochrome black on bone-ivory paper

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Credits · in the lineage of

East Asian sumi ink painting (suibokuga)Traditiongestural monochrome wash

A generated style is an aggregate of many influences — credit is given to the artists and traditions it draws on, not a claim of authorship.

produced by unrecorded · sourced by unrecorded · images by unrecorded

· Build the subject from a few confident gestural brushstrokes, not careful outlines.
· Keep it monochrome: pure black sumi ink on warm bone-ivory paper.
· Anchor each image with one or two saturated true-black accents and let everything else feather to grey wash.
· Preserve a large asymmetric negative-space void so the ink can breathe.
· Show the medium: water granulation, dry-brush split bristles, and irregular bleeding edges.

Don't

· Do not introduce color, tints, or saturated hues.
· Do not use hard vector outlines, flat fills, or clean digital airbrushing.
· Do not fill every corner; never lose the breathing void to clutter.
· Do not render glossy 3D or photographic realism.
· Do not add text, captions, framed borders, or empty margin strips around the plate.

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remix with this style

Apply Suiboku to any UI language and swap the palette — the preview takes this style's hero image.

Needs a Published language and palette to remix.