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Cinnabar Seal

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

ink wash

1 hero · 3 proofs

Prompt template

{subject}, in the style of Cinnabar Seal: a Chinese liu-bai ink-wash (shuimo) rendering — the subject built from a few confident graded black-to-grey sumi brushstrokes with deliberate dry-brush texture and soft wet washes, the vast majority of the frame left as untouched warm off-white rice-paper that IS the composition (intentional negative space), {palette} carried only in the ink values, monochrome and disciplined with no color fill, anchored by one small cinnabar-red square seal stamp placed precisely in a single corner, full-frame artwork edge to edge

Slot recipes

hero — {subject} rendered large and off-center in liu-bai ink wash, two-thirds of the frame left as untouched warm rice-paper void, one cinnabar seal stamp in a lower corner, full-bleed landscape composition

feature — a single {subject} in disciplined sumi brushstrokes with graded ink and dry-brush edges, surrounded by generous empty paper, one cinnabar seal in a corner, balanced square or portrait crop

avatar — tight head-and-shoulders of {subject} in a few confident ink-wash strokes on warm paper, minimal detail, one small cinnabar seal in the lower corner, square crop

empty-state — almost entirely empty warm rice-paper with a single faint grey ink stroke or mist wash suggesting {subject}, one cinnabar seal in a corner, the absence is the composition

illustration — {subject} built from economical graded sumi brushstrokes and soft wet washes, large surrounding liu-bai void, one cinnabar seal stamp, monochrome ink only

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Credits · in the lineage of

Chinese shuimo ink-wash paintingTraditionliu-bai negative space
Seal-carving (zhuanke) cultureTraditioncinnabar seal accents

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

· Leave the majority of the frame as untouched warm rice-paper — the void carries the composition
· Render the subject with a few confident, economical graded sumi brushstrokes
· Use dry-brush texture on edges and soft wet-on-wet washes for shadow
· Place exactly one small cinnabar-red square seal stamp, precisely, in a single corner
· Keep everything monochrome ink; let the warm paper supply the only warmth
· Compose asymmetrically — anchor the subject off-center against the emptiness

Don't

· Do not fill the background or add color to the subject
· Do not use more than one seal, or place the seal away from a corner
· Do not crowd the frame or surround a tiny subject with dead studio whitespace
· Do not add outlines, crosshatching, or photographic detail
· Do not use gradients, neon, or pastel washes
· Do not add text, captions, or a second signature

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remix with this style

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

Needs a Published language and palette to remix.