Style packs painterly-v1

`painterly-v1`

The first shipped style: painterly fantasy card-game illustration with dramatic directional light, a committed palette and full-bleed framing. Per-deck flavour arrived as a palette-plus-motif suffix (the STORM / TIDE era). Superseded by the poster packs for new work, but kept selectable forever — decks shipped under it still match it.

Adopted: 2026-07-10
Label: Painterly card illustration v1
Model: bytedance-seed/seedream-4.5
Export: 7.5% edge crop
In the gallery: 0 published images

Style block

Appended last to every prompt this pack composes, character for character. Changing it means publishing a new pack, never editing this one.

painterly fantasy card game illustration, dramatic directional lighting, bold shapes, high contrast, rich brushwork. Full-bleed scene that fills the entire frame edge to edge; absolutely no decorative border, no ornate frame, no gold trim or corner ornaments around the edges. no text, no lettering, no border, no frame, no watermark

Composition order

The composer assembles the final prompt in this order, top to bottom. The style block is always last, and always verbatim — that placement is the whole reason a pack is immutable.

Overlayyou supply this
Palette and motif, substituted into the pack template.
palette of {palette}; {motif}
Subjectyou supply this
What you typed, after the guard rules have run over it.
Guard clausesconditional
Appended by whichever guard rules matched your subject. Never appended twice.
Safe zoneconditional
Added for card-shaped sizes; omitted for square token art.
Keep the subject centered; the top and bottom 20 percent of the frame must be crop-safe.
Style block
The pack itself. Always last, always verbatim, and it ends in the suffix below.
painterly fantasy card game illustration, dramatic directional lighting, bold shapes, high contrast, rich brushwork. Full-bleed scene that fills the entire frame edge to edge; absolutely no decorative border, no ornate frame, no gold trim or corner ornaments around the edges. no text, no lettering, no border, no frame, no watermark
Suffix
The mandatory tail. The composer re-appends it if anything has displaced it.
no text, no lettering, no border, no frame, no watermark

Guard rules

Quirk countermeasures, learned from real runs and carried as pack data rather than code. Each one exists because a specific thing went wrong; the reason is part of the pack.

Id	What it does	Fires on	Why it exists
`proper-nouns`	proper-noun guard	every prompt	Proper nouns leak into the image as painted lettering — a character's name came back painted across the art on the first run. Describe characters and objects by appearance only.
`etch-no-letterforms`	appends a clause	`rune\|runic\|etch\|engrav\|inscrib\|inscri\|glyph\|sigil`	"rune-etched" reliably produces literal letterforms.
`music-no-notes`	appends a clause	`music\|melody\|song\|tune\|flute\|\bpipe\b\|piping`	Music words summon ♪♫ note glyphs into the frame.
`simple-signature-objects`	warns only	`drawn out into\|tapering into a\|blending into a\|which is also a`	Ornate compound object descriptions destabilise under motion — a hammer described with a sword-edge flourish drifted into an axe in action poses. Keep signature objects simple and state them early.

Shot list

None. This pack predates the art-direction shot list; framing comes entirely from the subject you write.

Size presets

card2304x17284:3 landscape · default
token1200x1200square
cardback1600x22405:7 portrait

Square sizes are token art and skip the safe-zone clause; card shapes get it.