Art direction audition · Sculpting Static

Gouache Illustration On Heavy Matte

run art-directions-02b--04-a-gouache-illustration-on-heavy-matte · 2026-09-05T08:57:18 · 6/6 rendered 6/6 restyled

The goal of this run

Transfer this image's art direction
PNGTransfer this image's art direction
the reference · a-gouache-illustration-on-heavy-matte-pa_RYkUvcTYR7-NbPCxEp4--g_nHs7f9H5SR2mF0UuQdioTg.png · read by Claude in step 2, seen by Qwen in step 6
to this image and its variants
PNGto this image and its variants
the canonical render: the brief made literal by Ideogram 4 in step 3, root of the six directions; text set last with the brand fonts
Ideogram prompt (JSON)
{
    "high_level_description": "A gouache-painted 16:9 key art: a solid, hand-brushed lighthouse stands on a dark rocky point at dusk, its long beam sweeping left and carving a clean, resolved sky out of a right-hand field of television static that frays and dissolves at the beam's edge. Headline and subhead sit in the calm upper-left sky.",
    "style_description": {
        "aesthetics": "mid-century poster illustration, patient, precise, quietly wistful, flat colour fields with hand-painted edges",
        "lighting": "even diffuse illustration light with a single warm beam as the only directional source; dusk value scheme, dark sky against a chalky pale beam",
        "medium": "illustration",
        "art_style": "opaque gouache on heavy matte paper in the lineage of 1950s European travel and public-information posters: chalky milled pigment, visible dry-brush drag, paper tooth showing through thin passages, uneven charcoal contour lines, no gloss, no photographic detail",
        "color_palette": ["#1A1E24", "#22303A", "#7A2E24", "#C2503C", "#E0785C", "#F5DC4E", "#CFE3ED", "#7FA9C4", "#3E6E8E", "#7FA35C", "#F0EFE7", "#B9C3C7", "#F7F2F1", "#BABCC2"]
    },
    "compositional_deconstruction": {
        "background": "A wide dusk sky over a cold open sea. The left half of the sky is resolved and clean — broad unmodulated bands of deep slate and maroon dropping to a chalky ice-blue horizon. The right half degrades into television static. The sea below is a flat dark band with a few dry-brush swells.",
        "elements": [
            {
                "type": "obj",
                "bbox": [0, 520, 700, 1000],
                "desc": "A field of television static painted as thousands of small hand-stippled gouache flecks in cream, slate and near-black; densest at the right edge, thinning leftward until individual specks separate and fall away into clear painted sky where the beam meets them",
                "color_palette": ["#1A1E24", "#3E6E8E", "#B9C3C7", "#F0EFE7", "#22303A"]
            },
            {
                "type": "obj",
                "bbox": [200, 640, 860, 790],
                "desc": "The lighthouse: a tapered tower in warm cream with brick-red bands, an olive-dark lantern gallery and a small glowing lamp room, painted with firm opaque strokes and a decisive charcoal contour so it reads as the most solid, most resolved object in the frame",
                "color_palette": ["#F0EFE7", "#C2503C", "#7A2E24", "#1A1E24", "#F5DC4E"]
            },
            {
                "type": "obj",
                "bbox": [230, 40, 560, 660],
                "desc": "The beam: a long tapering wedge of pale mustard-cream light sweeping left from the lantern room, laid down as one confident flat gouache shape with a soft dry-brush trailing edge, clearing the static wherever it passes",
                "color_palette": ["#F5DC4E", "#F0EFE7", "#E0785C"]
            },
            {
                "type": "obj",
                "bbox": [760, 470, 1000, 1000],
                "desc": "The rocky point: blocky angular headland painted in deep maroon and near-black with mustard rim-light on the upper facets, flat planes and hard hand-cut edges, a thin olive line of weed at the waterline",
                "color_palette": ["#7A2E24", "#1A1E24", "#22303A", "#7FA35C", "#F5DC4E"]
            },
            {
                "type": "obj",
                "bbox": [800, 0, 1000, 520],
                "desc": "Cold open sea rendered as three flat horizontal bands of slate and ice blue with short dry-brush swell marks, the beam's reflection a broken chalky streak",
                "color_palette": ["#22303A", "#3E6E8E", "#7FA9C4", "#CFE3ED"]
            },
            {
                "type": "text",
                "bbox": [110, 60, 250, 610],
                "text": "Sculpting Static",
                "desc": "Headline set in Jost Bold (700), geometric sans with round Futura-like letterforms, tight tracking, sentence case, two lines flush left, flat warm white with no outline, glow or texture over the dark dusk sky",
                "color_palette": ["#F7F2F1"]
            },
            {
                "type": "text",
                "bbox": [280, 62, 340, 520],
                "text": "Diffusion explained in 120 seconds",
                "desc": "Subhead set in Figtree Medium (500), friendly humanist geometric sans, normal tracking, sentence case, one line flush left beneath the headline, flat cool gray, clean and legible",
                "color_palette": ["#BABCC2"]
            }
        ]
    }
}
to produce results like this
PNGto produce results like this
the canonical, restyled by Qwen-Image-Edit in step 6 with the text patched back in step 7

Two approaches, side by side

Left: what the brief becomes when Claude explores its neighbourhood in words and Ideogram 4 renders it. Right: the same tile repainted by Qwen-Image-Edit in the reference's actual surface. Same seed, same layout, same brand type. Every image downloads with its workflow embedded.

Approach A · adjacent directions (Ideogram 4, text-driven)
Approach B · reference restyle (Qwen-Image-Edit, image-driven)
00 canonical · A
PNG00 canonical · A
the literal reading of the brief, in the reference's surface
Claude's note on what it took from the inputs (not sent to any model)
The brief asks for 16:9 key art for "Sculpting Static": a lighthouse on a rocky point, its beam cutting through a field of television static that dissolves into clear sky, patient and a little wistful, with the lighthouse reading solid and real. From the style reference I took the medium and surface (opaque gouache on heavy matte paper, chalky flat pigment, visible dry-brush drag, uneven hand-inked contour lines), the flat mid-century poster construction (broad unmodulated colour fields, simple horizon bands, even diffuse light), and the palette (mustard yellow, brick red, deep maroon, coral, pale ice blue, slate blue, olive, warm cream and near-black ink). The reference supplied no subject matter and none was borrowed from it. Type is K-State Consulting "Side Car": Jost Bold headline, Figtree Medium subhead, on a dark dusk ground so the warm white and cool gray brand colours carry.
Ideogram prompt (JSON)
{
    "high_level_description": "A gouache-painted 16:9 key art: a solid, hand-brushed lighthouse stands on a dark rocky point at dusk, its long beam sweeping left and carving a clean, resolved sky out of a right-hand field of television static that frays and dissolves at the beam's edge. Headline and subhead sit in the calm upper-left sky.",
    "style_description": {
        "aesthetics": "mid-century poster illustration, patient, precise, quietly wistful, flat colour fields with hand-painted edges",
        "lighting": "even diffuse illustration light with a single warm beam as the only directional source; dusk value scheme, dark sky against a chalky pale beam",
        "medium": "illustration",
        "art_style": "opaque gouache on heavy matte paper in the lineage of 1950s European travel and public-information posters: chalky milled pigment, visible dry-brush drag, paper tooth showing through thin passages, uneven charcoal contour lines, no gloss, no photographic detail",
        "color_palette": ["#1A1E24", "#22303A", "#7A2E24", "#C2503C", "#E0785C", "#F5DC4E", "#CFE3ED", "#7FA9C4", "#3E6E8E", "#7FA35C", "#F0EFE7", "#B9C3C7", "#F7F2F1", "#BABCC2"]
    },
    "compositional_deconstruction": {
        "background": "A wide dusk sky over a cold open sea. The left half of the sky is resolved and clean — broad unmodulated bands of deep slate and maroon dropping to a chalky ice-blue horizon. The right half degrades into television static. The sea below is a flat dark band with a few dry-brush swells.",
        "elements": [
            {
                "type": "obj",
                "bbox": [0, 520, 700, 1000],
                "desc": "A field of television static painted as thousands of small hand-stippled gouache flecks in cream, slate and near-black; densest at the right edge, thinning leftward until individual specks separate and fall away into clear painted sky where the beam meets them",
                "color_palette": ["#1A1E24", "#3E6E8E", "#B9C3C7", "#F0EFE7", "#22303A"]
            },
            {
                "type": "obj",
                "bbox": [200, 640, 860, 790],
                "desc": "The lighthouse: a tapered tower in warm cream with brick-red bands, an olive-dark lantern gallery and a small glowing lamp room, painted with firm opaque strokes and a decisive charcoal contour so it reads as the most solid, most resolved object in the frame",
                "color_palette": ["#F0EFE7", "#C2503C", "#7A2E24", "#1A1E24", "#F5DC4E"]
            },
            {
                "type": "obj",
                "bbox": [230, 40, 560, 660],
                "desc": "The beam: a long tapering wedge of pale mustard-cream light sweeping left from the lantern room, laid down as one confident flat gouache shape with a soft dry-brush trailing edge, clearing the static wherever it passes",
                "color_palette": ["#F5DC4E", "#F0EFE7", "#E0785C"]
            },
            {
                "type": "obj",
                "bbox": [760, 470, 1000, 1000],
                "desc": "The rocky point: blocky angular headland painted in deep maroon and near-black with mustard rim-light on the upper facets, flat planes and hard hand-cut edges, a thin olive line of weed at the waterline",
                "color_palette": ["#7A2E24", "#1A1E24", "#22303A", "#7FA35C", "#F5DC4E"]
            },
            {
                "type": "obj",
                "bbox": [800, 0, 1000, 520],
                "desc": "Cold open sea rendered as three flat horizontal bands of slate and ice blue with short dry-brush swell marks, the beam's reflection a broken chalky streak",
                "color_palette": ["#22303A", "#3E6E8E", "#7FA9C4", "#CFE3ED"]
            },
            {
                "type": "text",
                "bbox": [110, 60, 250, 610],
                "text": "Sculpting Static",
                "desc": "Headline set in Jost Bold (700), geometric sans with round Futura-like letterforms, tight tracking, sentence case, two lines flush left, flat warm white with no outline, glow or texture over the dark dusk sky",
                "color_palette": ["#F7F2F1"]
            },
            {
                "type": "text",
                "bbox": [280, 62, 340, 520],
                "text": "Diffusion explained in 120 seconds",
                "desc": "Subhead set in Figtree Medium (500), friendly humanist geometric sans, normal tracking, sentence case, one line flush left beneath the headline, flat cool gray, clean and legible",
                "color_palette": ["#BABCC2"]
            }
        ]
    }
}
00 canonical · B restyled
PNG00 canonical · B restyled
Qwen-Image-Edit from a-gouache-illustration-on-heavy-matte-pa_RYkUvcTYR7-NbPCxEp4--g_nHs7f9H5SR2mF0UuQdioTg.png
01 screenprint-two-ink · A
PNG01 screenprint-two-ink · A
axis: medium + palette
The reference's flat unmodulated colour fields are one step away from a hand-pulled poster print, and cutting to two inks plus paper makes the static read as pure halftone noise — exactly the subject.
Ideogram prompt (JSON)
{
    "high_level_description": "A two-ink screenprinted 16:9 poster: a solid lighthouse on a rocky point, its beam sweeping left and clearing a coarse halftone field of television static off a deep navy sky, printed with visible registration slip and ink texture.",
    "style_description": {
        "aesthetics": "1960s two-colour public-information screenprint, graphic, reductive, quietly wistful",
        "lighting": "no modelled light — illumination is implied by ink coverage and knockout, the beam a solid knockout wedge against navy",
        "medium": "graphic_design",
        "art_style": "hand-pulled two-ink silkscreen on uncoated stock in the lineage of mid-century civic and transit posters: navy and burnt orange inks over cream paper, coarse visible halftone dots, slight registration slip, mottled ink density, no gradients",
        "color_palette": ["#12283A", "#0A1722", "#D9552B", "#E9764A", "#EFE7D6", "#F7F2F1", "#BABCC2"]
    },
    "compositional_deconstruction": {
        "background": "A wide dusk sky printed as a flat navy flood over cream stock, the left half clean and unbroken, the right half breaking into an enlarged halftone dot screen. Below, the sea is a single navy band with knocked-out cream swell marks.",
        "elements": [
            {
                "type": "obj",
                "bbox": [0, 520, 700, 1000],
                "desc": "Television static rendered as a coarse enlarged halftone dot screen in navy ink, dots at full size and density on the right and shrinking leftward until only bare cream paper remains where the beam passes",
                "color_palette": ["#12283A", "#0A1722", "#EFE7D6"]
            },
            {
                "type": "obj",
                "bbox": [200, 640, 860, 790],
                "desc": "The lighthouse: a tapered tower knocked out of the navy to bare cream, banded in burnt orange, the lantern gallery solid navy with a slight registration slip that leaves an orange fringe — the crispest, most fully inked shape on the sheet",
                "color_palette": ["#EFE7D6", "#D9552B", "#12283A", "#E9764A"]
            },
            {
                "type": "obj",
                "bbox": [230, 40, 560, 660],
                "desc": "The beam: a long tapering wedge knocked out of the navy flood to bare cream and overprinted with a thin burnt-orange pass, hard-edged, sweeping left and erasing the dot screen",
                "color_palette": ["#EFE7D6", "#E9764A", "#D9552B"]
            },
            {
                "type": "obj",
                "bbox": [760, 470, 1000, 1000],
                "desc": "The rocky point: an angular solid navy silhouette with burnt-orange rim facets overprinted along its upper edges, hard cut shapes, no interior modelling",
                "color_palette": ["#12283A", "#0A1722", "#D9552B"]
            },
            {
                "type": "obj",
                "bbox": [800, 0, 1000, 520],
                "desc": "Sea printed as a flat navy band with three knocked-out cream swell lines and a broken orange streak of reflected beam",
                "color_palette": ["#12283A", "#EFE7D6", "#E9764A"]
            },
            {
                "type": "text",
                "bbox": [110, 60, 250, 610],
                "text": "Sculpting Static",
                "desc": "Headline set in Jost Bold (700), geometric sans with round Futura-like letterforms, tight tracking, sentence case, two lines flush left, knocked out of the navy flood as flat warm white, no outline or texture on the letters",
                "color_palette": ["#F7F2F1"]
            },
            {
                "type": "text",
                "bbox": [280, 62, 340, 520],
                "text": "Diffusion explained in 120 seconds",
                "desc": "Subhead set in Figtree Medium (500), humanist geometric sans, normal tracking, sentence case, one line flush left beneath the headline, flat cool gray, fully legible against the navy",
                "color_palette": ["#BABCC2"]
            }
        ]
    }
}
01 screenprint-two-ink · B restyled
PNG01 screenprint-two-ink · B restyled
Qwen-Image-Edit from a-gouache-illustration-on-heavy-matte-pa_RYkUvcTYR7-NbPCxEp4--g_nHs7f9H5SR2mF0UuQdioTg.png
02 night-photo-cool · A
PNG02 night-photo-cool · A
axis: medium + lighting
The brief insists the lighthouse read solid and real; a long-exposure night photograph is the most literal way to test that claim, with the static as sensor noise.
Ideogram prompt (JSON)
{
    "high_level_description": "A long-exposure night photograph, 16:9: a real concrete lighthouse on a wet rocky point, its beam a solid cone of haze sweeping left across a sky of heavy sensor noise that cleans into smooth deep blue where the light passes.",
    "style_description": {
        "aesthetics": "cinematic, desaturated, patient, cold and a little wistful, documentary restraint",
        "lighting": "blue hour into night, single practical source — the lantern — throwing a hazy volumetric cone; ambient fill from the last light on the horizon; deep shadow on the rocks",
        "photo": "full-frame 35mm, 50mm prime at f/2, four-second tripod exposure, ISO 1600, gentle halation around the lamp, natural lens vignette, fine luminance grain",
        "medium": "photograph",
        "color_palette": ["#0B1620", "#16303F", "#1F4A5E", "#2A6076", "#4E7E96", "#8FB3C4", "#C9DCE5", "#E8F0F4", "#2A2F33", "#F7F2F1", "#BABCC2"]
    },
    "compositional_deconstruction": {
        "background": "A deep blue-hour sky over dark water. The left of the frame is smooth and clean, holding the last cold gradient above the horizon; the right of the sky is buried in heavy noise. The sea below is smoothed to a soft blur by the long exposure.",
        "elements": [
            {
                "type": "obj",
                "bbox": [0, 520, 700, 1000],
                "desc": "Television static appearing as heavy chroma and luminance sensor noise across the right sky, coarse and clumping at the frame edge, progressively cleaning leftward until the sky resolves to a smooth gradient where the beam sweeps through",
                "color_palette": ["#0B1620", "#16303F", "#4E7E96", "#C9DCE5"]
            },
            {
                "type": "obj",
                "bbox": [200, 640, 860, 790],
                "desc": "The lighthouse: a real weathered concrete tower with rust-stained bands, a glazed lantern room blown to a small hot core, water-darkened base, sharply focused and unambiguously physical against the noise",
                "color_palette": ["#C9DCE5", "#8FB3C4", "#2A2F33", "#E8F0F4"]
            },
            {
                "type": "obj",
                "bbox": [230, 40, 560, 660],
                "desc": "The beam: a solid volumetric cone of light made visible by sea haze, sweeping left, its edges soft and slightly smeared by the four-second exposure, visibly suppressing the noise it crosses",
                "color_palette": ["#E8F0F4", "#C9DCE5", "#8FB3C4"]
            },
            {
                "type": "obj",
                "bbox": [760, 470, 1000, 1000],
                "desc": "The rocky point: wet dark granite with specular highlights along the upper facets, deep crushed shadow in the crevices, texture and grain fully resolved",
                "color_palette": ["#0B1620", "#2A2F33", "#16303F", "#4E7E96"]
            },
            {
                "type": "obj",
                "bbox": [800, 0, 1000, 520],
                "desc": "Sea rendered as soft milky blur by the long exposure, a broken column of reflected lamp light running toward camera",
                "color_palette": ["#16303F", "#1F4A5E", "#8FB3C4", "#C9DCE5"]
            },
            {
                "type": "text",
                "bbox": [110, 60, 250, 610],
                "text": "Sculpting Static",
                "desc": "Headline set in Jost Bold (700), geometric sans with round Futura-like letterforms, tight tracking, sentence case, two lines flush left, flat warm white laid cleanly over the dark sky with no glow, outline or drop shadow",
                "color_palette": ["#F7F2F1"]
            },
            {
                "type": "text",
                "bbox": [280, 62, 340, 520],
                "text": "Diffusion explained in 120 seconds",
                "desc": "Subhead set in Figtree Regular (400), humanist geometric sans, normal tracking, sentence case, one line flush left beneath the headline, flat cool gray, fully legible",
                "color_palette": ["#BABCC2"]
            }
        ]
    }
}
02 night-photo-cool · B restyled
PNG02 night-photo-cool · B restyled
Qwen-Image-Edit from a-gouache-illustration-on-heavy-matte-pa_RYkUvcTYR7-NbPCxEp4--g_nHs7f9H5SR2mF0UuQdioTg.png
03 gouache-sunbleached · A
PNG03 gouache-sunbleached · A
axis: palette + lighting
Same gouache hand and same paper, moved from cold dusk to a bleached late-golden hour — the wistfulness turns warm and nostalgic without touching the medium.
Ideogram prompt (JSON)
{
    "high_level_description": "A gouache-painted 16:9 key art in sun-bleached warm tones: a solid lighthouse on an umber rocky point in low late-afternoon light, its beam sweeping left through a field of television static that thins into a clear amber sky.",
    "style_description": {
        "aesthetics": "warm, sun-faded mid-century poster illustration, nostalgic, patient, quietly wistful",
        "lighting": "low raking golden-hour sun from the left, long soft shadows, high ambient warmth; the beam reads as a pale bleached wedge rather than a bright one",
        "medium": "illustration",
        "art_style": "opaque gouache on heavy matte paper in the lineage of 1950s European travel posters, here sun-faded: chalky milled pigment, dry-brush drag, paper tooth in the thin passages, uneven umber contour lines, no gloss",
        "color_palette": ["#3A2620", "#6E3326", "#A8452F", "#D9744A", "#E9B872", "#F6E3B8", "#F2D9C4", "#C9A98A", "#8C7A5E", "#F7F2F1", "#BABCC2"]
    },
    "compositional_deconstruction": {
        "background": "A wide late-afternoon sky over a warm sea. The left half is resolved and clean — broad unmodulated bands of deep umber and burnt sienna dropping to a pale amber horizon. The right half degrades into television static. The sea is a flat warm band with dry-brush swells.",
        "elements": [
            {
                "type": "obj",
                "bbox": [0, 520, 700, 1000],
                "desc": "Television static painted as hand-stippled gouache flecks in cream, sienna and dark umber, densest at the right edge and thinning leftward until the specks separate and dissolve into flat amber sky where the beam reaches them",
                "color_palette": ["#3A2620", "#A8452F", "#C9A98A", "#F2D9C4", "#6E3326"]
            },
            {
                "type": "obj",
                "bbox": [200, 640, 860, 790],
                "desc": "The lighthouse: a tapered tower in bleached cream with faded terracotta bands, a dark umber lantern gallery and a small warm lamp room, painted with firm opaque strokes and a decisive umber contour so it stays the most solid object in the frame",
                "color_palette": ["#F6E3B8", "#D9744A", "#6E3326", "#3A2620", "#E9B872"]
            },
            {
                "type": "obj",
                "bbox": [230, 40, 560, 660],
                "desc": "The beam: a long tapering wedge of pale bleached honey light sweeping left from the lantern room, one confident flat gouache shape with a soft dry-brush trailing edge, clearing the static as it passes",
                "color_palette": ["#F6E3B8", "#E9B872", "#F2D9C4"]
            },
            {
                "type": "obj",
                "bbox": [760, 470, 1000, 1000],
                "desc": "The rocky point: blocky angular headland in deep umber and burnt sienna with warm cream rim-light along the upper facets, flat planes and hard hand-cut edges",
                "color_palette": ["#3A2620", "#6E3326", "#A8452F", "#E9B872"]
            },
            {
                "type": "obj",
                "bbox": [800, 0, 1000, 520],
                "desc": "Warm sea painted as three flat horizontal bands of sienna and dusty rose with short dry-brush swell marks and a broken cream streak of reflection",
                "color_palette": ["#A8452F", "#D9744A", "#C9A98A", "#F2D9C4"]
            },
            {
                "type": "text",
                "bbox": [110, 60, 250, 610],
                "text": "Sculpting Static",
                "desc": "Headline set in Jost Bold (700), geometric sans with round Futura-like letterforms, tight tracking, sentence case, two lines flush left, flat warm white on the deep umber sky, no outline, glow or texture",
                "color_palette": ["#F7F2F1"]
            },
            {
                "type": "text",
                "bbox": [280, 62, 340, 520],
                "text": "Diffusion explained in 120 seconds",
                "desc": "Subhead set in Figtree Medium (500), humanist geometric sans, normal tracking, sentence case, one line flush left beneath the headline, flat cool gray, clean and legible",
                "color_palette": ["#BABCC2"]
            }
        ]
    }
}
03 gouache-sunbleached · B restyled
PNG03 gouache-sunbleached · B restyled
Qwen-Image-Edit from a-gouache-illustration-on-heavy-matte-pa_RYkUvcTYR7-NbPCxEp4--g_nHs7f9H5SR2mF0UuQdioTg.png
04 matte-clay-render · A
PNG04 matte-clay-render · A
axis: medium + material
A soft matte-clay 3D build keeps the poster's calm geometry but gives the lighthouse real volume and weight — the most direct way to make it read as solid and physical.
Ideogram prompt (JSON)
{
    "high_level_description": "A soft matte-clay 3D render, 16:9: a chunky, physically-modelled lighthouse on a low-poly rocky point at dusk, its beam a translucent volumetric wedge sweeping left through a drifting particle cloud of television static that thins into clean gradient sky.",
    "style_description": {
        "aesthetics": "soft, tactile, precise, quietly wistful; toy-like solidity with restrained detail",
        "lighting": "large soft area key from the left plus cool ambient dome, gentle global illumination, contact shadows under every form; the lantern is a small warm emissive source driving a volumetric beam",
        "medium": "3d_render",
        "art_style": "matte clay render in the lineage of modern editorial 3D illustration: unpolished vinyl and clay shaders with faint subsurface warmth, no specular hotspots, softly bevelled low-poly forms, subtle depth of field, particle-based noise",
        "color_palette": ["#1B2230", "#28344A", "#3E4C68", "#5E6E8C", "#8E9CB4", "#C6CEDC", "#E6E9F0", "#D97A5A", "#F0C27B", "#F7F2F1", "#BABCC2"]
    },
    "compositional_deconstruction": {
        "background": "A smooth dusk gradient sky, deep indigo at the top left falling to pale periwinkle at the horizon, with a matte dark sea plane beneath. The right of the sky is thick with suspended particles; the left is clean gradient.",
        "elements": [
            {
                "type": "obj",
                "bbox": [0, 520, 700, 1000],
                "desc": "Television static built as a dense volumetric cloud of tiny matte cubes and specks suspended in the right sky, clustered and overlapping at the frame edge, dispersing leftward with softening depth of field until only clean gradient remains where the beam passes",
                "color_palette": ["#1B2230", "#3E4C68", "#8E9CB4", "#C6CEDC"]
            },
            {
                "type": "obj",
                "bbox": [200, 640, 860, 790],
                "desc": "The lighthouse: a modelled tapered tower in matte off-white clay with soft-bevelled coral bands, a dark navy lantern gallery and a small warm emissive lamp, rounded edges catching a soft key and a clear contact shadow — heavy, weighted, unmistakably physical",
                "color_palette": ["#E6E9F0", "#D97A5A", "#28344A", "#F0C27B"]
            },
            {
                "type": "obj",
                "bbox": [230, 40, 560, 660],
                "desc": "The beam: a translucent volumetric cone of warm haze sweeping left from the lamp, softly falling off at its edges, visibly pushing the suspended particles out of its path",
                "color_palette": ["#F0C27B", "#E6E9F0", "#C6CEDC"]
            },
            {
                "type": "obj",
                "bbox": [760, 470, 1000, 1000],
                "desc": "The rocky point: low-poly faceted mass in matte slate clay, planes softly bevelled and lit by the ambient dome, warm rim on the upper facets, seated on the sea plane with a soft occlusion shadow",
                "color_palette": ["#1B2230", "#28344A", "#3E4C68", "#F0C27B"]
            },
            {
                "type": "obj",
                "bbox": [800, 0, 1000, 520],
                "desc": "Sea as a matte dark plane with a very low-frequency displacement ripple and a soft blurred column of reflected warm light, no specular glint",
                "color_palette": ["#28344A", "#3E4C68", "#5E6E8C", "#C6CEDC"]
            },
            {
                "type": "text",
                "bbox": [110, 60, 250, 610],
                "text": "Sculpting Static",
                "desc": "Headline set in Jost Bold (700), geometric sans with round Futura-like letterforms, tight tracking, sentence case, two lines flush left, composited flat in warm white over the dark gradient sky — no extrusion, bevel, glow or shadow on the letters",
                "color_palette": ["#F7F2F1"]
            },
            {
                "type": "text",
                "bbox": [280, 62, 340, 520],
                "text": "Diffusion explained in 120 seconds",
                "desc": "Subhead set in Figtree Medium (500), humanist geometric sans, normal tracking, sentence case, one line flush left beneath the headline, flat cool gray, fully legible",
                "color_palette": ["#BABCC2"]
            }
        ]
    }
}
04 matte-clay-render · B restyled
PNG04 matte-clay-render · B restyled
Qwen-Image-Edit from a-gouache-illustration-on-heavy-matte-pa_RYkUvcTYR7-NbPCxEp4--g_nHs7f9H5SR2mF0UuQdioTg.png
05 woodblock-ink-symbolic · A
PNG05 woodblock-ink-symbolic · A
axis: abstraction + material
Pushing the same scene from painted illustration toward carved ink on cream paper turns the static into pure mark-making, so the image reads as a diagram of noise resolving rather than a depiction of it.
Ideogram prompt (JSON)
{
    "high_level_description": "A carved woodblock-ink print on cream paper, 16:9: the lighthouse, point and beam reduced to bold symbolic shapes, the beam a clean wedge of untouched paper sweeping left through a field of chiselled ink marks that stand for television static and thin away into blank sky.",
    "style_description": {
        "aesthetics": "reductive, symbolic, austere and quietly wistful; poster-scale shapes, no incidental detail",
        "lighting": "no modelled light at all — light is the absence of ink, the beam and clean sky left as bare paper against dense carved black",
        "medium": "illustration",
        "art_style": "relief woodblock print on heavy cream laid paper in the lineage of early-twentieth-century European block prints: gouged chisel marks, slightly ragged ink edges, uneven inking with visible paper grain through the blacks, one warm rust second block, no halftone or gradient",
        "color_palette": ["#F4EDDD", "#E4D9C3", "#C9BCA0", "#8C4A32", "#5B6B5A", "#2A2622", "#1F1B18", "#202124", "#000000"]
    },
    "compositional_deconstruction": {
        "background": "A field of bare cream laid paper standing for sky, with a dense carved ink mass filling the right side and a low chiselled horizon band separating sky from sea. The left of the sheet is left almost entirely uninked so the type can sit on light ground.",
        "elements": [
            {
                "type": "obj",
                "bbox": [0, 520, 700, 1000],
                "desc": "Television static carved as hundreds of short chisel gouges and ragged ink flecks filling the right sky, nearly solid black at the frame edge, breaking into isolated individual marks leftward until the block is uncut and only bare cream paper remains",
                "color_palette": ["#1F1B18", "#2A2622", "#5B6B5A", "#E4D9C3"]
            },
            {
                "type": "obj",
                "bbox": [200, 640, 860, 790],
                "desc": "The lighthouse: reduced to a bold symbolic silhouette — a tapered black trapezoid with two rust-inked bands and a small square lantern notch, its outline carved in one clean confident cut, the densest and steadiest black on the sheet",
                "color_palette": ["#1F1B18", "#8C4A32", "#F4EDDD", "#2A2622"]
            },
            {
                "type": "obj",
                "bbox": [230, 40, 560, 660],
                "desc": "The beam: a long hard-edged wedge of completely uninked cream paper sweeping left from the lantern notch, the surrounding block gouged away along its border so the static marks stop dead at its edge",
                "color_palette": ["#F4EDDD", "#E4D9C3"]
            },
            {
                "type": "obj",
                "bbox": [760, 470, 1000, 1000],
                "desc": "The rocky point: a flat angular black mass with chisel-hatched facets and a rust-inked upper edge, hard geometric cuts and no interior modelling",
                "color_palette": ["#1F1B18", "#2A2622", "#8C4A32", "#5B6B5A"]
            },
            {
                "type": "obj",
                "bbox": [800, 0, 1000, 520],
                "desc": "Sea as three carved horizontal ink bands with short repeating wave gouges between them, the reflection a simple broken column of uncut paper",
                "color_palette": ["#2A2622", "#5B6B5A", "#C9BCA0", "#E4D9C3"]
            },
            {
                "type": "text",
                "bbox": [110, 60, 250, 610],
                "text": "Sculpting Static",
                "desc": "Headline set in Jost Bold (700), geometric sans with round Futura-like letterforms, tight tracking, sentence case, two lines flush left; because this ground is bare cream paper the headline prints flat charcoal, clean and unmodified — no outline, texture or distress on the letters",
                "color_palette": ["#202124"]
            },
            {
                "type": "text",
                "bbox": [280, 62, 340, 520],
                "text": "Diffusion explained in 120 seconds",
                "desc": "Subhead set in Figtree Regular (400), humanist geometric sans, normal tracking, sentence case, one line flush left beneath the headline, flat black on the light paper ground, fully legible",
                "color_palette": ["#000000"]
            }
        ]
    }
}
05 woodblock-ink-symbolic · B restyled
PNG05 woodblock-ink-symbolic · B restyled
Qwen-Image-Edit from a-gouache-illustration-on-heavy-matte-pa_RYkUvcTYR7-NbPCxEp4--g_nHs7f9H5SR2mF0UuQdioTg.png
1

Inputs

brief + reference · Mac

Brief (the root of the workflow: text, no lighthouse image exists yet)

Key art for "Sculpting Static", a short explainer about how diffusion video models carve a clean image out of noise. Hero image: a lighthouse on a rocky point, its beam cutting through a field of television static that is dissolving into clear sky around it. Mood: patient, precise, a little wistful. The lighthouse itself must read as solid and real. Text, rendered exactly: - Headline: "Sculpting Static" - Subhead: "Diffusion explained in 120 seconds" The reference image sets the medium, palette, texture and typographic voice. Landscape 16:9.

Settings

Render
Ideogram 4 (open weights) on the Spark, preset turbo (12 steps, mu 0.5, std 1.75), seed 314159, 1344x768
Text
text-last: rendered without text, brand type set on top at the end (both approaches)
Text brand
kstate-sidecar
License
ideogram-non-commercial-model-agreement (audition only)
Claude
external · $0.00 for the directions
Run
/Users/kellyabbott/Documents/ComfyUI/projects/art-direction-audition/runs/art-directions-02b--04-a-gouache-illustration-on-heavy-matte
Renders
/Users/kellyabbott/Documents/ComfyUI/output/art-direction/art-directions-02b--04-a-gouache-illustration-on-heavy-matte

Text brand

Brand block (kstate-sidecar) sent to Claude with the brief
TEXT BRAND (mandatory): K-State Consulting "Side Car"

Fonts (name them in every text element's desc, with weight):
- Headline: Jost Bold (700), a geometric sans-serif with round, Futura-like letterforms, tight tracking, sentence case or all caps.
- Subhead / body: Figtree Regular (400) or Medium (500), a friendly humanist geometric sans-serif, normal tracking, sentence case.

Text colours (use ONLY these hexes in text elements' color_palette; choose by the scene's ground):
- On dark grounds: headline Warm White #F7F2F1, subhead Cool Gray #BABCC2.
- On light grounds: headline Charcoal #202124, subhead Black #000000.
- One accent word or the whole headline may use Orange #FF6234 or Purple #AB4FF6 when the scene's palette can carry it; never both accents in one text element.
- Never other colours, gradients, outlines, bevels or glow on the letters: flat, clean, legible.

Rules:
- The brand owns the type; the reference image owns everything else (medium, materials, palette of the imagery, lighting).
- Text elements keep the brand in every adjacent direction. The "typographic voice" axis may only vary size, case, tracking and placement, never typeface or colour.
- Add #F7F2F1 or #202124 (whichever the text uses) to the image-level color_palette so the ground supports the text.

Reference image

a-gouache-illustration-on-heavy-matte-pa_RYkUvcTYR7-NbPCxEp4--g_nHs7f9H5SR2mF0UuQdioTg.png (role: style), shown at the top. It is not rendered from; Claude reads it for surface qualities in step 2 and Qwen sees it as image 2 in step 6.

2

Claude writes the directions

claude CLI · Mac

Claude reads the brief and the reference image shown at the top (style only: it may take medium, materials, palette and light, never the subject) and writes one canonical Ideogram 4 caption plus five adjacent directions. Each adjacent keeps the subject and composition and shifts one or two named axes. Text elements follow the brand block; the reference never touches the type.

Exact user prompt sent to Claude
BRIEF:
Key art for "Sculpting Static", a short explainer about how diffusion video models carve a
clean image out of noise. Hero image: a lighthouse on a rocky point, its beam cutting through
a field of television static that is dissolving into clear sky around it. Mood: patient,
precise, a little wistful. The lighthouse itself must read as solid and real.

Text, rendered exactly:
- Headline: "Sculpting Static"
- Subhead: "Diffusion explained in 120 seconds"

The reference image sets the medium, palette, texture and typographic voice. Landscape 16:9.

Target aspect ratio: 16:9.
Produce the canonical caption plus exactly 5 adjacent directions.

TEXT BRAND (mandatory): K-State Consulting "Side Car"

Fonts (name them in every text element's desc, with weight):
- Headline: Jost Bold (700), a geometric sans-serif with round, Futura-like letterforms, tight tracking, sentence case or all caps.
- Subhead / body: Figtree Regular (400) or Medium (500), a friendly humanist geometric sans-serif, normal tracking, sentence case.

Text colours (use ONLY these hexes in text elements' color_palette; choose by the scene's ground):
- On dark grounds: headline Warm White #F7F2F1, subhead Cool Gray #BABCC2.
- On light grounds: headline Charcoal #202124, subhead Black #000000.
- One accent word or the whole headline may use Orange #FF6234 or Purple #AB4FF6 when the scene's palette can carry it; never both accents in one text element.
- Never other colours, gradients, outlines, bevels or glow on the letters: flat, clean, legible.

Rules:
- The brand owns the type; the reference image owns everything else (medium, materials, palette of the imagery, lighting).
- Text elements keep the brand in every adjacent direction. The "typographic voice" axis may only vary size, case, tracking and placement, never typeface or colour.
- Add #F7F2F1 or #202124 (whichever the text uses) to the image-level color_palette so the ground supports the text.


REFERENCE IMAGES (read each file with the Read tool before answering):
- [style] /Users/kellyabbott/Documents/ComfyUI/projects/art-direction-audition/briefs/art directions-chunk02/a-gouache-illustration-on-heavy-matte-pa_RYkUvcTYR7-NbPCxEp4--g_nHs7f9H5SR2mF0UuQdioTg.png
System prompt (tools/prompts/system.md)
You are an art director's technical assistant. Your job: turn a creative brief (text, plus optional reference images) into ONE canonical Ideogram 4 structured JSON caption, then propose N ADJACENT art directions as further captions, so the team can audition them side by side.

# Ideogram 4 caption schema (strict)

```
{
  "high_level_description": "one or two sentences summarising the whole image",
  "style_description": {
    "aesthetics": "keywords, e.g. moody, cinematic, desaturated",
    "lighting": "lighting description",
    "photo": "camera/lens details (ONLY for medium = photograph)",
    "medium": "photograph | illustration | 3d_render | painting | graphic_design",
    "art_style": "style description (ONLY for non-photograph media)",
    "color_palette": ["#RRGGBB", ...]        // up to 16, uppercase hex
  },
  "compositional_deconstruction": {
    "background": "the environment / ground / backdrop",
    "elements": [
      {"type": "obj",  "bbox": [y_min, x_min, y_max, x_max], "desc": "...", "color_palette": ["#RRGGBB"]},
      {"type": "text", "bbox": [y_min, x_min, y_max, x_max], "text": "LITERAL COPY", "desc": "typographic treatment", "color_palette": ["#RRGGBB"]}
    ]
  }
}
```

Rules:
- style_description contains EXACTLY ONE of `photo` or `art_style`, matching `medium` (photograph -> photo; anything else -> art_style).
- bbox is optional; when used it is integers on a 0..1000 grid, origin top-left, order [y_min, x_min, y_max, x_max]. Use bboxes when layout matters (posters, UI, text placement); omit them for free compositions.
- Element `color_palette` has at most 5 colours. Image-level palette at most 16. Hex must be uppercase.
- `text` elements render the `text` string byte-for-byte. Only add text elements when the brief supplies copy; never invent slogans.
- Hex palettes are DIRECTION, prose is INTERPRETATION: encode the palette as hex, then describe materials, era and mood in prose.
- Never mention living artists by name. Describe the lineage instead ("mid-century Swiss poster", "1970s NASA technical illustration").

# What "adjacent" means

The canonical caption is the most literal, faithful reading of the brief and the references.

An ADJACENT direction keeps the brief's intent and subject and shifts ONE or TWO axes so the result still belongs to the same family but reads as a distinct look. Axes:
- medium (photograph / illustration / 3d_render / painting / graphic_design)
- palette (temperature, saturation, contrast, number of colours)
- era or reference lineage (the design tradition the look descends from)
- lighting (key, quality, direction, time of day)
- typographic voice (only when the brief includes copy)
- level of abstraction (literal -> stylised -> symbolic)
- material and texture (paper, film grain, glossy render, ink, fabric)
- composition density (sparse -> dense; single hero -> ensemble)

Requirements for the N adjacent directions:
1. Same subject and the same core composition as canonical: keep `compositional_deconstruction.elements` (their count, their roles and their bboxes when present) unless the axis you shift genuinely requires a change; only rewrite `desc` to match the new look.
2. Each adjacent direction names its axis (or pair of axes) and gives a one-line rationale for why it is a plausible neighbour of THIS brief.
3. The N directions are mutually distinct: no repeated axis pair, and every one differs from canonical on at least one axis. Include at least one medium shift and at least one palette shift across the set.
4. Do not "improve" the brief or change its idea. Audition a different LOOK, not a different concept.
5. Each `name` is short kebab-case that describes the look (e.g. "gouache-warm", "risograph-two-tone", "studio-photo-cool"). Do not number the names.
6. Give each adjacent direction its own `high_level_description` rewritten to match its look, and its own `style_description` (changed on the shifted axes, kept identical elsewhere).

# Text brand

When the user prompt contains a TEXT BRAND block, it is mandatory: every `text` element names the brand's typeface and weight in its `desc` and uses only the brand's hexes in its `color_palette`, in canonical and in every adjacent direction. The reference image never changes the type. The "typographic voice" axis then means size, case, tracking and placement only.

# Reference images

When reference image paths are given, READ every one before answering. A reference tagged `style` informs style_description and the palette (extract 5 to 8 dominant hex colours from it). A reference tagged `subject` informs high_level_description and the elements only, never the style. Say in `summary` what you took from each reference.

# Restyle prompt (only when at least one `style` reference is given)

Also write `restyle_prompt`: one paragraph (60 to 120 words) for an image-editing model that will repaint an already-rendered tile (image 1) into the reference's look (image 2). It must LEAD with the transformation ("Transform image 1 into ..."), name the reference's medium, materials, surface finish, palette in words (never hex), lighting and backdrop treatment concretely, and state that every surface of IMAGE 1's OWN scene adopts them, naming image 1's subject and elements (for example 'the lighthouse, the rocks, the beam, the static and the sea become ...'). NEVER name or describe any object, person, figure, room, prop or setting that appears in image 2: the editor will paste it in. Image 2 contributes only surface qualities. END with exactly this sentence: "Keep the layout of image 1 and keep its text exactly as it is: same letters, typeface and colours, fully legible." Do not mention preserving anything else: words spent on preservation make the editor preserve.

# Restyle reference mode (only when at least one `style` reference is given)

Also write `restyle_ref_mode`: "palette" if the reference has a dominant subject that an image editor would be tempted to paste into the scene (a person, face, figure, creature, or a single hero object in front of a backdrop); "full" if the reference is a texture, material, pattern, landscape, interior, abstract, typographic or graphic composition without such a subject. With "palette" the editor is shown only a blurred colour-field of the reference (its palette and light survive; its subject does not).

# Output

Respond with ONE JSON object and nothing else (no markdown fences, no commentary):

```
{
  "canonical": {"name": "canonical", "summary": "what the brief asks for and what you took from each reference", "prompt": {caption}},
  "adjacent": [
    {"name": "kebab-name", "axis": "medium + palette", "rationale": "one line", "prompt": {caption}},
    ...
  ],
  "restyle_prompt": "Transform image 1 into ... Keep the layout of image 1 and keep its text exactly as it is: same letters, typeface and colours, fully legible.",
  "restyle_ref_mode": "full"
}
```

Claude's note on the canonical

Stored with the run for reading intent; never sent to an image model. The prompt itself is the JSON caption under tile 00.

The brief asks for 16:9 key art for "Sculpting Static": a lighthouse on a rocky point, its beam cutting through a field of television static that dissolves into clear sky, patient and a little wistful, with the lighthouse reading solid and real. From the style reference I took the medium and surface (opaque gouache on heavy matte paper, chalky flat pigment, visible dry-brush drag, uneven hand-inked contour lines), the flat mid-century poster construction (broad unmodulated colour fields, simple horizon bands, even diffuse light), and the palette (mustard yellow, brick red, deep maroon, coral, pale ice blue, slate blue, olive, warm cream and near-black ink). The reference supplied no subject matter and none was borrowed from it. Type is K-State Consulting "Side Car": Jost Bold headline, Figtree Medium subhead, on a dark dusk ground so the warm white and cool gray brand colours carry.

The six directions

#DirectionAxisWhy it is a plausible neighbour
00canonicaloriginalThe brief asks for 16:9 key art for "Sculpting Static": a lighthouse on a rocky point, its beam cutting through a field of television static that dissolves into clear sky, patient and a little wistful, with the lighthouse reading solid and real. From the style reference I took the medium and surface (opaque gouache on heavy matte paper, chalky flat pigment, visible dry-brush drag, uneven hand-inked contour lines), the flat mid-century poster construction (broad unmodulated colour fields, simple horizon bands, even diffuse light), and the palette (mustard yellow, brick red, deep maroon, coral, pale ice blue, slate blue, olive, warm cream and near-black ink). The reference supplied no subject matter and none was borrowed from it. Type is K-State Consulting "Side Car": Jost Bold headline, Figtree Medium subhead, on a dark dusk ground so the warm white and cool gray brand colours carry.
01screenprint-two-inkmedium + paletteThe reference's flat unmodulated colour fields are one step away from a hand-pulled poster print, and cutting to two inks plus paper makes the static read as pure halftone noise — exactly the subject.
02night-photo-coolmedium + lightingThe brief insists the lighthouse read solid and real; a long-exposure night photograph is the most literal way to test that claim, with the static as sensor noise.
03gouache-sunbleachedpalette + lightingSame gouache hand and same paper, moved from cold dusk to a bleached late-golden hour — the wistfulness turns warm and nostalgic without touching the medium.
04matte-clay-rendermedium + materialA soft matte-clay 3D build keeps the poster's calm geometry but gives the lighthouse real volume and weight — the most direct way to make it read as solid and physical.
05woodblock-ink-symbolicabstraction + materialPushing the same scene from painted illustration toward carved ink on cream paper turns the static into pure mark-making, so the image reads as a diagram of noise resolving rather than a depiction of it.
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Ideogram 4 renders the six directions

ComfyUI · Spark

Every caption is normalised (strict key order, uppercase hex, bounding boxes on a 0–1000 grid) and sent verbatim to the local Ideogram 4 graph. Under each tile: the Ideogram prompt (the structured JSON the text encoder receives) and the exact ComfyUI workflow that was queued, with that prompt embedded in its CLIPTextEncode node ("from PNG" = read from the tile metadata; "rebuilt" = regenerated through the same code path for tiles that predate metadata preservation).

Model
Ideogram 4 open weights: ideogram4_fp8_scaled.safetensors (conditional) + ideogram4_unconditional_fp8_scaled.safetensors (unconditional pass, image-only, no negative prompt)
Text encoder
qwen3vl_8b_fp8_scaled.safetensors loaded as CLIPLoader type ideogram4 (Qwen3-VL-8B); the JSON caption is the entire conditioning
Guidance
DualModelGuider cfg 7.0; CFGOverride drops cfg to 3.0 over the last 30% of steps (start 0.7 → 1.0) on the conditional model
Sampler
euler on Ideogram4Scheduler sigmas: 12 steps, mu 0.5, std 1.75 (preset turbo); seed 314159 for all six tiles
Latent / VAE
EmptyFlux2LatentImage 1344x768 (multiples of 16), decoded with flux2-vae.safetensors
Host
http://100.114.82.59:8188 (DGX Spark), API-format graph POSTed to /prompt; the PNG's own metadata carries that graph
00 canonical
PNG00 canonical
41.3 s · original
Ideogram prompt (JSON)
{
    "high_level_description": "A gouache-painted 16:9 key art: a solid, hand-brushed lighthouse stands on a dark rocky point at dusk, its long beam sweeping left and carving a clean, resolved sky out of a right-hand field of television static that frays and dissolves at the beam's edge. Headline and subhead sit in the calm upper-left sky.",
    "style_description": {
        "aesthetics": "mid-century poster illustration, patient, precise, quietly wistful, flat colour fields with hand-painted edges",
        "lighting": "even diffuse illustration light with a single warm beam as the only directional source; dusk value scheme, dark sky against a chalky pale beam",
        "medium": "illustration",
        "art_style": "opaque gouache on heavy matte paper in the lineage of 1950s European travel and public-information posters: chalky milled pigment, visible dry-brush drag, paper tooth showing through thin passages, uneven charcoal contour lines, no gloss, no photographic detail",
        "color_palette": ["#1A1E24", "#22303A", "#7A2E24", "#C2503C", "#E0785C", "#F5DC4E", "#CFE3ED", "#7FA9C4", "#3E6E8E", "#7FA35C", "#F0EFE7", "#B9C3C7", "#F7F2F1", "#BABCC2"]
    },
    "compositional_deconstruction": {
        "background": "A wide dusk sky over a cold open sea. The left half of the sky is resolved and clean — broad unmodulated bands of deep slate and maroon dropping to a chalky ice-blue horizon. The right half degrades into television static. The sea below is a flat dark band with a few dry-brush swells.",
        "elements": [
            {
                "type": "obj",
                "bbox": [0, 520, 700, 1000],
                "desc": "A field of television static painted as thousands of small hand-stippled gouache flecks in cream, slate and near-black; densest at the right edge, thinning leftward until individual specks separate and fall away into clear painted sky where the beam meets them",
                "color_palette": ["#1A1E24", "#3E6E8E", "#B9C3C7", "#F0EFE7", "#22303A"]
            },
            {
                "type": "obj",
                "bbox": [200, 640, 860, 790],
                "desc": "The lighthouse: a tapered tower in warm cream with brick-red bands, an olive-dark lantern gallery and a small glowing lamp room, painted with firm opaque strokes and a decisive charcoal contour so it reads as the most solid, most resolved object in the frame",
                "color_palette": ["#F0EFE7", "#C2503C", "#7A2E24", "#1A1E24", "#F5DC4E"]
            },
            {
                "type": "obj",
                "bbox": [230, 40, 560, 660],
                "desc": "The beam: a long tapering wedge of pale mustard-cream light sweeping left from the lantern room, laid down as one confident flat gouache shape with a soft dry-brush trailing edge, clearing the static wherever it passes",
                "color_palette": ["#F5DC4E", "#F0EFE7", "#E0785C"]
            },
            {
                "type": "obj",
                "bbox": [760, 470, 1000, 1000],
                "desc": "The rocky point: blocky angular headland painted in deep maroon and near-black with mustard rim-light on the upper facets, flat planes and hard hand-cut edges, a thin olive line of weed at the waterline",
                "color_palette": ["#7A2E24", "#1A1E24", "#22303A", "#7FA35C", "#F5DC4E"]
            },
            {
                "type": "obj",
                "bbox": [800, 0, 1000, 520],
                "desc": "Cold open sea rendered as three flat horizontal bands of slate and ice blue with short dry-brush swell marks, the beam's reflection a broken chalky streak",
                "color_palette": ["#22303A", "#3E6E8E", "#7FA9C4", "#CFE3ED"]
            },
            {
                "type": "text",
                "bbox": [110, 60, 250, 610],
                "text": "Sculpting Static",
                "desc": "Headline set in Jost Bold (700), geometric sans with round Futura-like letterforms, tight tracking, sentence case, two lines flush left, flat warm white with no outline, glow or texture over the dark dusk sky",
                "color_palette": ["#F7F2F1"]
            },
            {
                "type": "text",
                "bbox": [280, 62, 340, 520],
                "text": "Diffusion explained in 120 seconds",
                "desc": "Subhead set in Figtree Medium (500), friendly humanist geometric sans, normal tracking, sentence case, one line flush left beneath the headline, flat cool gray, clean and legible",
                "color_palette": ["#BABCC2"]
            }
        ]
    }
}
ComfyUI workflow (API JSON) · from PNG
{
 "1": {
  "class_type": "UNETLoader",
  "inputs": {
   "unet_name": "ideogram4_fp8_scaled.safetensors",
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01 screenprint-two-ink
PNG01 screenprint-two-ink
24.7 s · medium + palette
Ideogram prompt (JSON)
{
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        "lighting": "no modelled light — illumination is implied by ink coverage and knockout, the beam a solid knockout wedge against navy",
        "medium": "graphic_design",
        "art_style": "hand-pulled two-ink silkscreen on uncoated stock in the lineage of mid-century civic and transit posters: navy and burnt orange inks over cream paper, coarse visible halftone dots, slight registration slip, mottled ink density, no gradients",
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                "color_palette": ["#EFE7D6", "#D9552B", "#12283A", "#E9764A"]
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            {
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                "bbox": [800, 0, 1000, 520],
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                "text": "Sculpting Static",
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                "color_palette": ["#F7F2F1"]
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                "text": "Diffusion explained in 120 seconds",
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                "color_palette": ["#BABCC2"]
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ComfyUI workflow (API JSON) · from PNG
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02 night-photo-cool
PNG02 night-photo-cool
25.1 s · medium + lighting
Ideogram prompt (JSON)
{
    "high_level_description": "A long-exposure night photograph, 16:9: a real concrete lighthouse on a wet rocky point, its beam a solid cone of haze sweeping left across a sky of heavy sensor noise that cleans into smooth deep blue where the light passes.",
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        "lighting": "blue hour into night, single practical source — the lantern — throwing a hazy volumetric cone; ambient fill from the last light on the horizon; deep shadow on the rocks",
        "photo": "full-frame 35mm, 50mm prime at f/2, four-second tripod exposure, ISO 1600, gentle halation around the lamp, natural lens vignette, fine luminance grain",
        "medium": "photograph",
        "color_palette": ["#0B1620", "#16303F", "#1F4A5E", "#2A6076", "#4E7E96", "#8FB3C4", "#C9DCE5", "#E8F0F4", "#2A2F33", "#F7F2F1", "#BABCC2"]
    },
    "compositional_deconstruction": {
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        "elements": [
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                "color_palette": ["#C9DCE5", "#8FB3C4", "#2A2F33", "#E8F0F4"]
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                "color_palette": ["#E8F0F4", "#C9DCE5", "#8FB3C4"]
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                "type": "obj",
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                "color_palette": ["#0B1620", "#2A2F33", "#16303F", "#4E7E96"]
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                "bbox": [800, 0, 1000, 520],
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                "color_palette": ["#16303F", "#1F4A5E", "#8FB3C4", "#C9DCE5"]
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                "desc": "Headline set in Jost Bold (700), geometric sans with round Futura-like letterforms, tight tracking, sentence case, two lines flush left, flat warm white laid cleanly over the dark sky with no glow, outline or drop shadow",
                "color_palette": ["#F7F2F1"]
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                "type": "text",
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                "text": "Diffusion explained in 120 seconds",
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                "color_palette": ["#BABCC2"]
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    }
}
ComfyUI workflow (API JSON) · from PNG
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03 gouache-sunbleached
PNG03 gouache-sunbleached
26.9 s · palette + lighting
Ideogram prompt (JSON)
{
    "high_level_description": "A gouache-painted 16:9 key art in sun-bleached warm tones: a solid lighthouse on an umber rocky point in low late-afternoon light, its beam sweeping left through a field of television static that thins into a clear amber sky.",
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        "lighting": "low raking golden-hour sun from the left, long soft shadows, high ambient warmth; the beam reads as a pale bleached wedge rather than a bright one",
        "medium": "illustration",
        "art_style": "opaque gouache on heavy matte paper in the lineage of 1950s European travel posters, here sun-faded: chalky milled pigment, dry-brush drag, paper tooth in the thin passages, uneven umber contour lines, no gloss",
        "color_palette": ["#3A2620", "#6E3326", "#A8452F", "#D9744A", "#E9B872", "#F6E3B8", "#F2D9C4", "#C9A98A", "#8C7A5E", "#F7F2F1", "#BABCC2"]
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        "elements": [
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            {
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                "color_palette": ["#F6E3B8", "#D9744A", "#6E3326", "#3A2620", "#E9B872"]
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            {
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                "bbox": [230, 40, 560, 660],
                "desc": "The beam: a long tapering wedge of pale bleached honey light sweeping left from the lantern room, one confident flat gouache shape with a soft dry-brush trailing edge, clearing the static as it passes",
                "color_palette": ["#F6E3B8", "#E9B872", "#F2D9C4"]
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            {
                "type": "obj",
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                "color_palette": ["#3A2620", "#6E3326", "#A8452F", "#E9B872"]
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            {
                "type": "obj",
                "bbox": [800, 0, 1000, 520],
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                "color_palette": ["#A8452F", "#D9744A", "#C9A98A", "#F2D9C4"]
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            {
                "type": "text",
                "bbox": [110, 60, 250, 610],
                "text": "Sculpting Static",
                "desc": "Headline set in Jost Bold (700), geometric sans with round Futura-like letterforms, tight tracking, sentence case, two lines flush left, flat warm white on the deep umber sky, no outline, glow or texture",
                "color_palette": ["#F7F2F1"]
            },
            {
                "type": "text",
                "bbox": [280, 62, 340, 520],
                "text": "Diffusion explained in 120 seconds",
                "desc": "Subhead set in Figtree Medium (500), humanist geometric sans, normal tracking, sentence case, one line flush left beneath the headline, flat cool gray, clean and legible",
                "color_palette": ["#BABCC2"]
            }
        ]
    }
}
ComfyUI workflow (API JSON) · from PNG
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04 matte-clay-render
PNG04 matte-clay-render
26.9 s · medium + material
Ideogram prompt (JSON)
{
    "high_level_description": "A soft matte-clay 3D render, 16:9: a chunky, physically-modelled lighthouse on a low-poly rocky point at dusk, its beam a translucent volumetric wedge sweeping left through a drifting particle cloud of television static that thins into clean gradient sky.",
    "style_description": {
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        "lighting": "large soft area key from the left plus cool ambient dome, gentle global illumination, contact shadows under every form; the lantern is a small warm emissive source driving a volumetric beam",
        "medium": "3d_render",
        "art_style": "matte clay render in the lineage of modern editorial 3D illustration: unpolished vinyl and clay shaders with faint subsurface warmth, no specular hotspots, softly bevelled low-poly forms, subtle depth of field, particle-based noise",
        "color_palette": ["#1B2230", "#28344A", "#3E4C68", "#5E6E8C", "#8E9CB4", "#C6CEDC", "#E6E9F0", "#D97A5A", "#F0C27B", "#F7F2F1", "#BABCC2"]
    },
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        "elements": [
            {
                "type": "obj",
                "bbox": [0, 520, 700, 1000],
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                "color_palette": ["#1B2230", "#3E4C68", "#8E9CB4", "#C6CEDC"]
            },
            {
                "type": "obj",
                "bbox": [200, 640, 860, 790],
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                "color_palette": ["#E6E9F0", "#D97A5A", "#28344A", "#F0C27B"]
            },
            {
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                "bbox": [230, 40, 560, 660],
                "desc": "The beam: a translucent volumetric cone of warm haze sweeping left from the lamp, softly falling off at its edges, visibly pushing the suspended particles out of its path",
                "color_palette": ["#F0C27B", "#E6E9F0", "#C6CEDC"]
            },
            {
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                "bbox": [760, 470, 1000, 1000],
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                "color_palette": ["#1B2230", "#28344A", "#3E4C68", "#F0C27B"]
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            {
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                "bbox": [800, 0, 1000, 520],
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                "color_palette": ["#28344A", "#3E4C68", "#5E6E8C", "#C6CEDC"]
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                "desc": "Headline set in Jost Bold (700), geometric sans with round Futura-like letterforms, tight tracking, sentence case, two lines flush left, composited flat in warm white over the dark gradient sky — no extrusion, bevel, glow or shadow on the letters",
                "color_palette": ["#F7F2F1"]
            },
            {
                "type": "text",
                "bbox": [280, 62, 340, 520],
                "text": "Diffusion explained in 120 seconds",
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                "color_palette": ["#BABCC2"]
            }
        ]
    }
}
ComfyUI workflow (API JSON) · from PNG
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05 woodblock-ink-symbolic
PNG05 woodblock-ink-symbolic
25.1 s · abstraction + material
Ideogram prompt (JSON)
{
    "high_level_description": "A carved woodblock-ink print on cream paper, 16:9: the lighthouse, point and beam reduced to bold symbolic shapes, the beam a clean wedge of untouched paper sweeping left through a field of chiselled ink marks that stand for television static and thin away into blank sky.",
    "style_description": {
        "aesthetics": "reductive, symbolic, austere and quietly wistful; poster-scale shapes, no incidental detail",
        "lighting": "no modelled light at all — light is the absence of ink, the beam and clean sky left as bare paper against dense carved black",
        "medium": "illustration",
        "art_style": "relief woodblock print on heavy cream laid paper in the lineage of early-twentieth-century European block prints: gouged chisel marks, slightly ragged ink edges, uneven inking with visible paper grain through the blacks, one warm rust second block, no halftone or gradient",
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                "type": "text",
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                "text": "Diffusion explained in 120 seconds",
                "desc": "Subhead set in Figtree Regular (400), humanist geometric sans, normal tracking, sentence case, one line flush left beneath the headline, flat black on the light paper ground, fully legible",
                "color_palette": ["#000000"]
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ComfyUI workflow (API JSON) · from PNG
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  "class_type": "SamplerCustomAdvanced",
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   "guider": [
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   "sampler": [
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   "sigmas": [
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   "latent_image": [
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    0
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4

Claude writes the restyle prompt

claude CLI · Mac

Claude also writes a restyle instruction for the reference: it must lead with the transformation and name the reference's medium, materials, palette (in words), lighting and backdrop, and it may never name an object, person or setting from the reference. The code appends a guard that pins the scene to image 1 and, because the text is blurred out for the edit, states that there is no text in the image. This is the exact final prompt Qwen received:

Transform image 1 into an opaque gouache painting on heavy matte paper: chalky milled pigment, flat unmodulated colour fields, visible dry-brush drag, paper tooth showing through the thin passages, hand-inked charcoal contour lines of uneven weight, and no gloss or photographic detail anywhere. Use a mid-century poster palette of mustard yellow, brick red, deep maroon, coral, pale ice blue, slate blue, olive and warm cream. Light is even and diffuse, like flat illustration light, and backdrops become broad painted colour fields with simple horizon bands. Every surface of image 1's own scene adopts this: the lighthouse, the rocks, the beam, the static and the sea all become brushed gouache shapes with hand-painted edges. The subject and scene remain those of image 1: A gouache-painted 16:9 key art: a solid, hand-brushed lighthouse stands on a dark rocky point at dusk, its long beam sweeping left and carving a clean, resolved sky out of a right-hand field of television static that frays and dissolves at the beam's edge. Do not copy any object, person, figure or setting from image 2; take only its surface qualities. Keep the layout of image 1. There is no text in this image: the plain, soft, empty area of image 1 stays empty and unlettered, with no words, letters, numbers, captions or logos anywhere in the picture.

reference mode: full (the reference itself) · tag a-gouache-illustration-on · seed 314159

5

The clean, text-free render goes to the editor

Python (PIL) · Mac

Text-last mode: the six pictures were rendered with no text at all. Claude's recipe kept the text area reserved as a calm, empty zone, so the picture leaves room for the type. The clean render is saved as raw/NN.clean.png and is exactly what the editor receives as image 1. Nothing is blurred; there are no letters to hide.

Intermediate: the clean render Qwen edits (tile 00 shown)
PNGIntermediate: the clean render Qwen edits (tile 00 shown)
rendered without text; the brand text is set on top at the end
6

Qwen-Image-Edit repaints each tile in the reference's surface

ComfyUI · Spark

Qwen-Image-Edit-2511 takes the textless tile as image 1 and the reference as image 2 and repaints image 1 with the prompt above. Layout survives because the edit model preserves structure; the look changes because the prompt insists every surface adopts the reference's. These are the exact mechanics:

What the editor receives

image 1: the Ideogram tile (tile 00 shown)
PNGimage 1: the Ideogram tile (tile 00 shown)
image 2: the reference itself
PNGimage 2: the reference itself
a-gouache-illustration-on-heavy-matte-pa_RYkUvcTYR7-NbPCxEp4--g_nHs7f9H5SR2mF0UuQdioTg.png

To re-run this edit from the ComfyUI UI: drop a restyled PNG on the canvas, then in the two Load Image nodes pick the run-prefixed inputs from the dropdown (uploaded to the Spark's input folder as art-directions-02b--04-a-gouache-illustration-on-heavy-matte--textless-NN.png and art-directions-02b--04-a-gouache-illustration-on-heavy-matte--ref-…); for runs made before 2026-09-04 14:15 the inputs were in input/restyle/ under shared names, so upload raw/textless-NN.png and the reference (or its palette field from raw/) via the node's upload button instead.

Model
qwen_image_edit_2511_fp8mixed.safetensors + Qwen-Image-Edit-2511-Lightning-4steps-V1.0-bf16.safetensors (strength 1.0) → ModelSamplingAuraFlow shift 3.1 → CFGNorm 1.0
Text encoder
qwen_2.5_vl_7b_fp8_scaled.safetensors via TextEncodeQwenImageEditPlus, which sees the prompt AND both images (through the VAE qwen_image_vae.safetensors)
image 1 (edited)
the Ideogram render, 1344x768; also VAE-encoded as the starting latent
image 2 (style)
the reference image itself: a-gouache-illustration-on-heavy-matte-pa_RYkUvcTYR7-NbPCxEp4--g_nHs7f9H5SR2mF0UuQdioTg.png, 1280x800
Negative
the same encoder with an empty prompt and the same two images (cfg is 1.0, so it barely acts)
Sampler
KSampler euler / simple, 4 steps, cfg 1.0, denoise 1.0, seed 314159; FluxKontextImageScale resizes both inputs to a ~1 MP Kontext bucket, which is why the output is 1328x800, not 1344x768
Host
http://100.114.82.59:8188; ~27 s per tile on this run

Restyled tiles, as downloaded from the Spark (before patch-back and K mark)

The tiles below are the finished files (patched and marked); the pre-patch download is not kept separately. The workflow under each is the exact one queued.

00 canonical · restyled
PNG00 canonical · restyled
27.4 s
ComfyUI workflow (API JSON) · from PNG
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   "positive": [
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01 screenprint-two-ink · restyled
PNG01 screenprint-two-ink · restyled
27.8 s
ComfyUI workflow (API JSON) · from PNG
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Brand text is typeset last, then the K mark

Python (PIL) · Mac

Text-last mode: back on the Mac, the brand text is typeset onto every finished picture, both approaches alike, with the real font files: Jost[wght].ttf at weight 700 for the headline and Figtree[wght].ttf at weight 500 for the subhead, placed where Claude's recipe reserved the text area. The colour is chosen per picture by measuring the ground under the text: Warm White #F7F2F1 on dark, Charcoal #202124 / Black on light. If the ground is busy or mid-tone, a soft scrim is laid under the text first; the letters stay flat. Then the K mark is applied. Clean, text-free renders are kept in raw/ as NN.clean.png, and every PNG keeps the ComfyUI workflow in its metadata.

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Record a verdict per direction and one honest risk for the winner in verdict.md, then promote the winner to the project's ART-DIRECTION.md. Re-render a winner at full quality with audition.py rerender art-directions-02b--04-a-gouache-illustration-on-heavy-matte NN --preset quality --mp 2.

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00canonicaloriginalThe brief asks for 16:9 key art for "Sculpting Static": a lighthouse on a rocky point, its beam cutting through a field of television static that dissolves into clear sky, patient and a little wistful, with the lighthouse reading solid and real. From the style reference I took the medium and surface (opaque gouache on heavy matte paper, chalky flat pigment, visible dry-brush drag, uneven hand-inked contour lines), the flat mid-century poster construction (broad unmodulated colour fields, simple horizon bands, even diffuse light), and the palette (mustard yellow, brick red, deep maroon, coral, pale ice blue, slate blue, olive, warm cream and near-black ink). The reference supplied no subject matter and none was borrowed from it. Type is K-State Consulting "Side Car": Jost Bold headline, Figtree Medium subhead, on a dark dusk ground so the warm white and cool gray brand colours carry.
01screenprint-two-inkmedium + paletteThe reference's flat unmodulated colour fields are one step away from a hand-pulled poster print, and cutting to two inks plus paper makes the static read as pure halftone noise — exactly the subject.
02night-photo-coolmedium + lightingThe brief insists the lighthouse read solid and real; a long-exposure night photograph is the most literal way to test that claim, with the static as sensor noise.
03gouache-sunbleachedpalette + lightingSame gouache hand and same paper, moved from cold dusk to a bleached late-golden hour — the wistfulness turns warm and nostalgic without touching the medium.
04matte-clay-rendermedium + materialA soft matte-clay 3D build keeps the poster's calm geometry but gives the lighthouse real volume and weight — the most direct way to make it read as solid and physical.
05woodblock-ink-symbolicabstraction + materialPushing the same scene from painted illustration toward carved ink on cream paper turns the static into pure mark-making, so the image reads as a diagram of noise resolving rather than a depiction of it.

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