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Splash

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

Splash hero
Splash proof 1
Splash proof 2
Splash proof 3
1 hero · 3 proofs
Prompt template
{subject}, in the style of Splash — expressive sumi-e display calligraphy on bright blown-white paper: the whole {subject} reduced to a handful of decisive single black brush-strokes painted with a wide loaded brush, visible split-bristle and dry-drag texture inside the ink, raw confident gyo-sho lettering-art gesture where the brush-mark itself becomes the form (never classical ink-wash), with exactly ONE stroke re-inked in a single vivid neon hue glowing electric against the otherwise pure monochrome black ink, {palette}, the empty bright white paper around the marks reading as the light, faint warm atmospheric festival glow, full-frame composition that fills the canvas edge to edge, bold and modern, clean never muddy, atmospheric not flat-loud
Slot recipes
heroOne leaping subject as a single confident brush-arc filling the frame, the climactic stroke re-inked in the palette's neon accent, bright paper light and warm festival glow around it; atmospheric, never flat.
portraitA face reduced to a few split-bristle strokes — cheek-sweep, eye-flicks, a dry-drag mouth — with the mouth or eye re-inked in the one neon hue against black ink.
objectAn everyday object (teacup, lantern, kite) drawn as a handful of bold black strokes with one neon stroke marking its living gesture (steam, flame, tail).
streamerKoinobori or banner forms as long tapering split-bristle sweeps, one whole streamer re-inked in the neon accent swimming among monochrome ink streamers against bright open sky.
iconA single subject compressed to its fewest possible decisive strokes, black on white, one tiny neon flick as the accent — reads cleanly at small size.
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Credits · in the lineage of
  • Sumi-e ink paintingTraditionEast Asian brush-and-ink technique; the reductive few-stroke treatment and dry-brush bristle-split texture are drawn from it, repurposed here as bold display lettering rather than classical landscape wash.
  • Gyo-sho (semi-cursive) calligraphyTraditionThe confident single-gesture, the-mark-is-the-form approach comes from semi-cursive brush calligraphy used as expressive lettering-art.
  • Enso brushworkTraditionThe single decisive loaded-brush stroke with its raw start-and-release energy informs the gestural mark-making.

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.

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Do
  • · Reduce any subject to a handful of decisive single brush-strokes — the mark IS the image.
  • · Keep visible split-bristle and dry-drag texture inside every black stroke.
  • · Re-ink exactly ONE stroke in a single vivid neon hue as the festival accent.
  • · Let the bright blown-white paper be the light; fill the frame edge to edge.
  • · Treat it as bold modern lettering-art / display gesture, not classical ink-wash.
Don't
  • · Don't muddy the ink into grey wash or tint the paper pastel.
  • · Don't use more than one neon hue, and don't spread neon across many strokes.
  • · Don't render it childish, cartoonish, or as a flat saturated poster.
  • · Don't add lettering, signatures, watermarks, or empty whitespace margins.
  • · Don't smooth the brush into an airbrush with no bristle texture.
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remix with this style

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

Needs a Published language and palette to remix.