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Rubricator

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

ink and gilt

1 hero · 4 proofs

Prompt template

{subject}, drawn as a confident brush-and-reed-pen black ink contour line over a warm vellum-parchment ground, with loose neutral grey ink wash laid in for shadow and volume; then interrupted by a few hand-laid flecks and thin leaf-shapes of gilt amber gold ({palette}) like real gold leaf catching the light, and one or two small rubricated marks of red placed to steer the eye to the most important detail; a manuscript-illumination treatment, editorial fine-art ink illustration, subject cropped tight so it fills the frame edge to edge, dramatic lamplit chiaroscuro against a deep warm-dark surround, full-frame no margins

Slot recipes

hero — {subject} filling a wide frame in black brush-and-reed ink contour over warm vellum, loose grey wash for depth, a few hand-laid gold-leaf flecks and one rubricated red mark leading the eye, lamplit chiaroscuro with deep dark negative space in one upper corner for an overlay, cropped wide, no whitespace

feature — a single {subject} in black ink contour over warm vellum, grey wash for volume, two or three gold-leaf flecks tracing its key detail and one small rubricated red mark, tight crop, full frame

avatar — head-and-shoulders {subject} in black ink contour over warm vellum, grey wash for the face, one gold-leaf fleck and a small rubricated red mark beside the eye, square tight crop, fills frame

empty-state — a quiet {subject} sketched in sparse black ink line over pale vellum wash, a single rubricated red mark the only saturated note, calm and uncluttered, full frame

illustration — {subject} scene in confident black ink contour over layered grey wash on warm vellum, several gold-leaf flecks and a couple of rubricated red marks scattered to steer the eye through the scene, lamplit chiaroscuro, full bleed, no margins

inkgiltmanuscriptilluminationeditorial

Credits · in the lineage of

Medieval manuscript illumination & rubricationTraditionthe scribal use of red marks and gold leaf to organise and honour a page, without interrupting the reading
Pen-and-ink line-and-wash illustrationtechniqueconfident contour line carrying the form, with loose neutral wash for volume — the editorial fine-art ink tradition
Chiaroscuro lamplit paintingMovementdramatic single-source light against a deep dark surround, in the manner of candlelit Baroque interiors

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 opus-4.8 · images by gpt-image-2

· Draw the subject first as a confident, assured black brush-and-reed ink contour; let the line carry the form
· Lay loose grey ink wash for shadow and volume, kept strictly neutral
· Hand-lay a few flecks and thin leaf-shapes of gilt amber gold like real gold leaf catching light
· Place one or two small rubricated red marks to steer the eye to the most important detail
· Keep a warm vellum-parchment ground and a lamplit, chiaroscuro surround
· Crop tight so the subject fills the frame edge to edge
· Treat any subject equally — a face, a city, a teapot, a coastline all read the same way

Don't

· Don't add any lettering, captions, or marginal text
· Don't tint the contour line — keep it black
· Don't let the gold become a flat metallic fill; it is hand-laid flecks and leaf
· Don't use the red as a large fill; it is a small rubrication mark
· Don't muddy the wash with brown mixing or rainbow colour
· Don't render photoreal or 3d; this is ink-and-gilt illustration

try it

remix with this style

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

Needs a Published language and palette to remix.