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Ningxia / NX_C7

Ningxia — Based on real mugs

Nine large contour episodes: a real goji bush and living Babao practice.

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

Ningxia — Based on real mugs
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

Nine large contour episodes: a real goji bush and living Babao practice.

Title and drawing language

The assignment provides only one word — NINGXIA, in large Latin serif letters. Small place names, Chinese text, numbers and third-party logos are excluded. This is a description of the assignment; actual legibility 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

New version matches C7: single large NINGXIA, clean open middle outlines, selective flat accents. Gaiwan, blend preparation, goji and local monuments are well distinguishable; previous watercolor halos eliminated.

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

#8B343F

#A28E42

#447C7C

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: fac89bae618d7f31a5df2e09adb611bf664d6a947b2f0e0ba0003d18c1e7f627

Read the full prompt
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.

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: Ningxia. Palette: #8B343F, #A28E42, #447C7C. First colour is the main outline; remaining two are small flat accents. No additional inks.

Draw NINE substantial uneven episodes: (1) a host serving Babao in a large three-piece gaiwan, one clear lid-lifting gesture and a small kettle; (2) an ingredient-sorting hand with a shallow tray of tea leaves, dates, elongated goji berries and a few sugar shapes; (3) a Zhongning goji picker with one actual berry shrub and a wicker basket, clearly not tea picking; (4) a separate berry-infusion glass beside a small fruit plate; (5) three sharp Helan peaks and one spare irrigation turn; (6) one rammed-earth Western Xia tomb, stepped/conical and not an Egyptian pyramid; (7) a simplified sloping group of Qingtongxia stupas, no need to draw or print the number 108; (8) a small regional courtyard gateway with two seated tea guests; (9) two Loess Plateau cave-house arches beside a short dune and one respectful Xumishan niche silhouette. The hero cup and berry shrub are unequal anchors, the stupa group is smaller and higher. Use clean wolfberry-dark outlines, small dune-gold accents and restrained teal vessel details; most bodies and all sky/ground remain transparent. The dry ingredient shapes must be distinct rather than dotted confetti. No local tea plantation, medicinal imagery, extra captions or theological ornament invented as decoration.

PRINTED TEXT: exactly "NINGXIA" 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.