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Gansu / GS_C7

Gansu — In real cups

Ten large unequal episodes in simple outline: six tea contexts and four map groups.

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Gansu — In real cups
250 × 75 mm · 3840 × 1152 px · RGBA · 390.144 / 390.144 ppi

C7: drawing method and real style references

Regional research and sources

Factual basis and choice of subjects

Ten large unequal episodes in simple outline: six tea contexts and four map groups.

Title and drawing language

The assignment provides only one word — GANSU, in large Latin serif letters. Small toponyms, Chinese text, numbers, and third-party logos are excluded. This is a description of the assignment; actual readability is assessed separately.

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

A simple hand-drawn outline and a single GANSU; the fortress, camels, cups, local tea ritual, gardens, and yak differ in scale. It matches the C7 style; the background is transparent.

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

#564238

#B97D2E

#428A99

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: 166d34bed6f1e012505eefdc8b079354bcda19a32f779c76f0dcf5156fcbd38d

Read the full prompt
Create an original flat souvenir-cup decal, not a mug mockup or a photographed product. Follow the approved real-cup outline style with simple shapes and restrained accents. Do not reproduce the source map's parchment, dense relief shading or filled scenery. Native canvas 3840 x 1280 pixels, actual RGBA PNG, with every mark safely inside x60..3780/y110..1170; final centered export is 3840 x 1152 for 250 x 75 mm. Keep all canvas margins alpha zero. No visible frame or printed technical information.

Use confident, slightly human 5–7 px outlines, readable at 75 mm print height. Most object bodies are open alpha-zero interiors: the ceramic itself becomes the unprinted colour. Only small, sharply bounded flat accent patches; no white or cream backing, no sky/ground slab, no brown wash, watercolor, airbrush, photographic texture, dense engraving or crosshatching. Use 3–5 short interior marks for an ordinary vessel or object, a few essential openings for a building. Tea steam is at most one or two open curls. No global ground line connecting every scene.

Arrange 8–10 substantial, unequal episodes in a lively irregular field. Put the largest episode off-center, let a tall narrow object answer it, and fit a few smaller ones into purposeful gaps. Different heights and natural overlaps are welcome, but every episode needs a legible silhouette and a clean breathing channel. No fixed whitespace percentage, no equal two-row sticker grid, no miniatures scattered under an enormous empty heading. Preserve real regional identity through observed objects and explicit tea actions. Never invent tea farms or label herbs as tea leaves. Architecture is a geographic motif; contemporary tea pauses are authored scenes, not historical evidence.


C7: REAL SOUVENIR-CUP PEN DRAWING. Match the approved Xinjiang and Shanghai cup illustrations through warm, assured medium outlines and selective small flat accents. At native size use approximately 5–7 px main strokes and only 3–5 interior strokes per simple object. Larger buildings may have a few more essential windows, never dense hatching. Most enclosed bodies remain transparent. Draw 8–10 unequal, generous subject groups at different heights, with irregular open channels between them. This is neither an evenly spaced icon grid nor a tightly packed panoramic painting. No watercolor, sepia haze, opaque cream objects, stippled shading or engraving.

REGION: Gansu. Palette: #564238, #B97D2E, #428A99. First colour is the main outline; remaining two are small flat accents. No additional inks.

Draw TEN uneven episodes, each with a few large legible objects: (1) a generous Sanpaotai gaiwan, tilted lid and pouring hand at lower left, with three or four dry-fruit shapes on a small plate; (2) a compact clay tea pot on a little Tianshui stove, its cup to one side; (3) a Wenxian picker and three curved tea-bush rows, leaf basket open and unfilled; (4) a Yangba leaf-sorting tray beneath one wooded hill contour; (5) a Yuhe tea bench beside two tea shrubs, visibly smaller than Wenxian but still readable; (6) a Gannan host offering a butter-tea bowl beside a plain churn and one yak, not a tea garden; (7) a Jiayuguan gate answered by two simple Bactrian camels; (8) the crescent spring with a tiny pavilion and a narrow oasis tree, all water unfilled; (9) three striped Danxia ridges transitioning to two sharper Qilian peaks; (10) a low Lanzhou truss bridge and a simple Maijishan cliff niche as one compact travel group. Main gaiwan and picker are unequal visual anchors. Arrange the ten episodes at changing heights around the title, not as ten matching stamps; connect at most a few neighbours with a short land contour. Small ochre accents belong to fruit, gate roofs and ridge stripes; turquoise belongs to tiny bowl rims and a few river strokes. The dark brown line remains clean, never diluted into a wash. All scenes are present-day illustrative motifs; do not show desert tea cultivation or label a camel load as historical tea evidence.

PRINTED TEXT: exactly "GANSU" once, near the upper composition, in warm hand-drawn block-serif capitals. This is the only visible text: no place names, subheadings, numbers, Chinese, labels, logos or signatures. Keep the word readable and scaled to the drawing, not an oversized empty banner. Preserve the anatomy and silhouette of local animals and vessels; do not repeat or multiply episodes to fill gaps. Deliver the drawing itself on genuine transparency.