# Sichuan — Basket and tea brick

Sichuan · SC_C1

A large basket of tender leaf meets the craft of pressing dark tea.

## Published file

250 × 75 mm · 3840 × 1152 px · RGBA · 390.144 / 390.144 ppi.

Checked for publication · Drawing review and technical check of the current file

[PNG](/assets/artwork/SC_C1.png) · [exact TXT](/assets/prompts/SC_C1.txt) · [browser dossier](/en/docs/designs/SC_C1.html) · [collection context](/en/docs/projects/C1.html).

[Regional research and sources](/en/docs/research/sichuan.md).

## Review basis

Full SICHUAN, clean two-color engraving and legible tea names. Picking, brick pressing, scenting and various processing are distinguishable, with no noticeable crops or dirty halos.

PNG RGBA 3840 × 1152 px; real alpha channel; proportional export 250 × 75 mm.

Approved after review for the open gallery; does not imply the user's endorsement of industrial production.

## Creative brief palette

#385A37

#BA4244

## Original generation prompt

The text below matches the published TXT. Inscriptions, details, and palette in the assignment are the author's intent; this is not OCR of the final image. Reference images used are not included in the TXT.

SHA-256 TXT: `37e0e7851fc96b706b83c556886936862d9169d893dc6b813420d2ae60ea4d3d`.

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RENDERING REQUIREMENTS: Produce a new, completely crisp region-specific illustration. Borrow ONLY drawing style from the references; do not copy their region, title or place names. Use the exact region and English lettering in the brief. No blurred patches, mist, smoky shading, translucent brush smears or soft-focus architectural details. No clipping of objects or letters: keep an 80-pixel clear safety margin around the complete composition. True PNG RGBA transparency between the drawn shapes; no opaque white or coloured backing. Sharp ink edges, legible deliberate lettering.

PRODUCTION CALIBRATION: use the supplied crisp print illustration as the leading standard for edge clarity, and use any cup photo only for its hand-drawn spirit. Create original local subjects; never reproduce the reference title or region. All strokes and letters must be sharp, complete, readable and deliberately drawn. No painterly blur, soft dirty halos, translucent smearing, duplicated words or pseudo-writing. Every complete object and letter stays 120 pixels inside each native edge. All unpainted exterior and interior openings must be genuine transparent alpha, not an opaque white canvas. Replace any weak fine detail with fewer clear graphic marks.

Create an original collectible regional ceramic PRINTING DECAL, not a mug or mockup. The supplied image is a drawing/style benchmark only: replace every reference-region subject and word with the researched region described below. Make a confident, rewarding composition whose tea craft, architecture and landscape belong together.
OUTPUT: PNG RGBA, native 3840 x 1280 px. Keep every mark inside x=60..3780 and y=110..1170; use nearly the whole long strip. The final export is 3840 x 1152 px for 250 x 75 mm. Do not shrink the entire design to a central 16:9 picture. Preserve normal object proportions and complete edge objects.
ALPHA: genuine transparent exterior and natural transparent openings inside the drawing. No white or cream rectangle, paper texture, sky wash, sea fill, provincial silhouette, checkerboard, aura, gradient or drop shadow. Unpainted architecture, water and negative openings reveal alpha. Colour belongs to actual drawn objects, never a vague backdrop. Do not reproduce any opaque field visible in the reference.
For C1–C6, create ONE connected varied panorama with two or three unequal anchors, overlapping near/middle/far scales and smaller discoveries. Connect through real terrain, streets, roofs, branches and human actions, not dotted diagram routes. No two-row sticker sheet, isolated equal scenes, caption boxes, repetitive generic gardens or an empty band under the title. Do not impose a percentage of blank space. C7 instead follows its explicit irregular album direction below.
English lettering only, exact spelling, dark clear capitals for allowed captions. One main regional title. No Chinese characters, logos, invented seals, pseudo-writing, promotional superlatives or health claims. A short legible caption is preferable to microscopic text. Respect the stated distinctions between growing tea, processing it, trading it and serving it. A full research inventory need not become a printed gazetteer.

COLLECTION: A TWO-INK ENGRAVED TEA ATLAS. Follow the supplied GD24 reference for delicate but decisive engraving, botanical specificity and the contrast of foreground craft with smaller distant discoveries. Use only the two specified inks. No atmospheric colour fields, decorative network dots or specimen boxes. Tall narrow serif region lettering fits a natural opening within the world.
REGION: SICHUAN.
PALETTE: #385A37, #BA4244. Preserve this regional colour family; first colour supplies the strongest contour/text. Extra dark/light rendering colours and full-colour watercolour are not wanted.
RESEARCHED CONTENT:
Give Sichuan several visibly different tea crafts. Mengding/Mingshan has a maker shaping small curled Ganlu green tea, beside a separate wrapped Huangya yellowing bundle. Ya'an has a substantial dark-tea pressing table and plain rectangular Zang Cha bricks, linked to a departing carrier, not a Buddhist relic. Emei/Leshan offers slender green-tea buds on a sorting tray below low mountain gardens. Yibin has an early picking scene and separate Chuanhong black-tea rolling table; Naxi/Luzhou has another low warm-valley early tea garden. Qianwei is a jasmine-scenting workshop with fresh flowers laid next to tea leaves, not flowers replacing tea. Pujiang Queshe uses neat pointed tender leaf shapes. Micang/Wangcang and Qingchuan occupy northern mountain garden shoulders; Wanyuan/Bashan is an eastern upland tea cluster. A small Chengdu open teahouse with a gaiwan and bamboo chair expresses serving and urban exchange. Pair small neighbouring territories where sensible but do not collapse every tea into green terraces. Ten local labels maximum; further subregions can appear visually. Western snow and caravan travel remain beyond the growing slopes, with no tea planted on ice.
AUTHORED COMPOSITION:
A large near Mengding maker turns a shallow bamboo basket at left; its rim carries the eye into a low garden slope. Opposite, a Ya’an brick press and a plain brick create a compact heavy counterweight. A carrier lifts tea bundles between them, beginning a small uphill trail rather than a diagram route. Qianwei flower-scenting and Yibin black-tea rolling occupy a shared lower workbench lane, with separate Emei and Pujiang bud trays above. Northern Micang/Qingchuan and eastern Wanyuan hills form far shoulders. Engrave meaningful tea hands and leaves, not a blanket of stippling. SICHUAN rests among the roofs over the central press.
LETTERING PLAN:
SICHUAN once. Captions: MENGDING, YAAN, EMEI, YIBIN, NAXI, QIANWEI, PUJIANG, MICANG, QINGCHUAN, WANYUAN. No smaller third-level text.
REGIONAL SAFEGUARDS:
Green Ganlu, yellow Huangya, dark Ya’an tea and Chuanhong black tea must not share one false process. Jasmine scenting includes real tea leaves. Bamboo-leaf and sparrow-tongue tea names are not literal ingredients. No named Three Gorges, no snowy tea fields, no fantasy historic dates or therapeutic claims. Panda is a minor travel motif, never the main tea identity.
FINAL STANDARD: sharply drawn object edges, deliberate line hierarchy, vivid meaningful local differences and a recognisable whole place. Protect the main title and key silhouettes; never solve complexity by making everything equally tiny.
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