Tianjin — Port tea in outlines

Factual basis and choice of subjects

Nine simple city episodes with tea life.

Title and drawing language

The brief specifies only one word — TIANJIN, in large serif Latin capitals. Small place names, Chinese text, numbers, and third-party logos are excluded. This is a description of the brief; actual legibility is assessed separately.

Narrative inventory of the original concept

Below are the planned groups from the English author's prompt, quoted verbatim. This is a transparent explanation of the choice of subjects, not a promise that the generator reproduced every detail.

1. Largest lower left: three friends at a table, one pours jasmine tea from a modest kettle into their cups.

2. A nearby merchant weighs tea from an open plain wooden box.

3. Upper left: jasmine branch with five outlined flowers beside a tea tin.

4. Low middle: dockworker pushing two-wheeled cart with three tea parcels.

5. Right: two xiangsheng performers, one with a fan, beside two tea-drinking listeners.

6. High right: Tianjin Eye, a complete open wheel with a few spokes, on its triangular bridge support.

7. Centre: one Wudadao villa, steep roof and six simple tall windows.

8. Far right: small traditional gateway, steel-truss Jiefang Bridge and compact cargo boat.

Drawing method and style references

Photographs of real tourist mugs with city scenes of Guangzhou, Macau, Hong Kong and Zhuhai were studied. From them, observed drawing features were taken: medium lively hand outline, simple recognizable silhouettes, selective flat color accents and a large title in the upper band. The specific set of viewed angles varied by region.

Local scenes vary in scale, shape, and height. Their juxtaposition creates an overall rhythm; a continuous panorama, a shared horizon, a grid of identical modules, and a fixed percentage of empty space are not imposed. Transparency is preserved between and within outlines.

The ceramic surface, highlights, hands, and the object background of the photographs are not part of the new drawing. Reference images and personal source photos are not published here. The three colors of each region are the author's palette, not a measured paint standard of the photographed cup.

Review basis

Fresh short-prompt rendition is crisp throughout: readable TIANJIN, jasmine flowers, merchant scale, tea pouring, cart, performers, wheel, villa and harbour bridge are cleanly resolved. Confident medium contours and flat accents match the souvenir direction; no previous smudged facades or fuzzy hands. Lower furniture has a deliberate shared graphic baseline inside the margins.

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

#255762

#A48235

#C67355

Original generation prompt

Text matches the public TXT. The list of inscriptions and details describes the author's brief; this is not OCR and not a promise of reproducibility without the references used.

SHA-256: 40f008a33ee89a7935df7cc0c1543a5247522f72d7f091290420439aaf5481a4

TIANJIN illustrated souvenir print, flat artwork only. Deliver RGBA PNG with transparent background, 3840 x 1280 pixels. Keep every mark inside x100..3740 and y130..1150 for a 250 x 75 mm ceramic decal. Reference supplies drawing manner only.

Clean medium-weight petrol-blue pen #255762, with small flat terracotta #C67355 and ochre #A48235 patches. Precise continuous contours, like a hand-drawn vector artwork. Every edge stays hard and clearly resolved. Open unprinted interiors in clothes, windows, vessels and water. Use few purposeful lines, no textured shading, mist, smudges or scenic background.

Eight unequal large scenes form an irregular illustrated field around one large elegant serif title TIANJIN. This is the only text. No numbered grid or equal badges.

1. Largest lower left: three friends at a table, one pours jasmine tea from a modest kettle into their cups.
2. A nearby merchant weighs tea from an open plain wooden box.
3. Upper left: jasmine branch with five outlined flowers beside a tea tin.
4. Low middle: dockworker pushing two-wheeled cart with three tea parcels.
5. Right: two xiangsheng performers, one with a fan, beside two tea-drinking listeners.
6. High right: Tianjin Eye, a complete open wheel with a few spokes, on its triangular bridge support.
7. Centre: one Wudadao villa, steep roof and six simple tall windows.
8. Far right: small traditional gateway, steel-truss Jiefang Bridge and compact cargo boat.

Vary height and scale, let two neighbouring pairs touch and retain clean open channels elsewhere. Friendly simple faces, coherent hands, complete kettle spouts and table legs. Buildings are clear silhouettes, not detailed window patterns. Tea is imported to this northern trading city; no local plantations. Strong clear pen lines and selective flat accents, close to classic illustrated tourist mugs. No mockup, paper, shadow, extra captions or decorative writing.