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poster-v2

poster-v1's rendering plus the art-direction layer that sits ABOVE the style block: a shot-type list applied as a hard filter, effect-first framing (illustrate the consequence or the item, not a character performing it) and the restraint rule (one focal point, everything else collapses to flat fields). This is the default pack for new work.

Adopted
2026-07-15
Label
Flat-ink screen-print poster v2 (art-directed)
Model
google/gemini-3.1-flash-image
Export
7.5% edge crop
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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.

flat color screen-print poster illustration, limited palette of 3-4 flat spot-color inks on a warm cream paper tone, single saturated flat background field, bold graphic shapes, visible ink texture and subtle halftone grain, energetic gestural linework with sketchy unfinished edges and ink splatter, dramatic negative space, figure rim-lit or in partial silhouette, thin concentric ring and radial line accents behind the subject, conceptual editorial poster composition, matte, no gradients, no glossy digital painting, no photorealism, 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.

  1. Overlayyou supply this

    Palette and motif, substituted into the pack template.

    inks: {palette}; motif: {motif} (vary the motif's size and placement, do not stamp it identically)

  2. Art direction

    Fixed by the pack. Sits above the style block.

    Illustrate the effect, the consequence or the item — never a character performing the action.

  3. ↳ Art direction

    Fixed by the pack. Sits above the style block.

    One focal point only: spend the whole detail budget there and collapse everything else to a flat color field, a repeating pattern or bare texture. No second subject, no rendered sky, no full scene.

  4. ↳ Art direction

    Fixed by the pack. Sits above the style block.

    Off-center and diagonal by default; crop boldly, the subject may exit the frame. Centered symmetric composition is reserved for icon and object shots.

  5. Shot clauseconditional

    One of 7 shots from the pack's list, chosen per image.

  6. Subjectyou supply this

    What you typed, after the guard rules have run over it.

  7. Guard clausesconditional

    Appended by whichever guard rules matched your subject. Never appended twice.

  8. Safe zoneconditional

    Added for card-shaped sizes; omitted for square token art.

    Composition: keep the subject and all critical elements within the central 80 percent of the frame on both axes; all four outer edges (about 15 percent in from each side) are crop-safe margin with nothing important in them.

  9. Style block

    The pack itself. Always last, always verbatim, and it ends in the suffix below.

    flat color screen-print poster illustration, limited palette of 3-4 flat spot-color inks on a warm cream paper tone, single saturated flat background field, bold graphic shapes, visible ink texture and subtle halftone grain, energetic gestural linework with sketchy unfinished edges and ink splatter, dramatic negative space, figure rim-lit or in partial silhouette, thin concentric ring and radial line accents behind the subject, conceptual editorial poster composition, matte, no gradients, no glossy digital painting, no photorealism, no text, no lettering, no border, no frame, no watermark

  10. 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.

IdWhat it doesFires onWhy it exists
proper-nounsproper-noun guardevery promptProper nouns leak into the image as painted lettering. Describe characters and objects by appearance only.
flat-lightappends a clauselightning|glow|glowing|luminous|radiance|shimmer|shine|beam|halo|ember|flame|sparkLightning and glow effects pull every model toward glossy glowing gradients. Write them flat.
etch-no-letterformsappends a clauserune|runic|etch|engrav|inscrib|inscri|glyph|sigil"rune-etched" reliably produces literal letterforms.
music-no-notesappends a clausemusic|melody|song|tune|flute|\bpipe\b|pipingMusic words summon ♪♫ note glyphs into the frame.
no-inner-frameappends a clauseevery promptEvery model tested loves adding an ornate frame to card-art prompts even with the no-frame clause; the belt-and-suspenders answer is this clause plus the 7.5 percent edge crop.
effect-firstwarns onlycasting|casts|conjuring|wielding|swinging|front and cent(er|re)|posing|heroically"The character performs the action" is the number-one failure mode — it reads as fan art. Pick a shot type that shows the effect, the consequence or the item instead.

Shot list

The framings this pack knows, and roughly how often a full set should reach for each.

ShotShareWhat it is
hero30%A deck character as focal subject — but varied: from behind, hooded, cropped at the shoulder, silhouetted, or small in frame. Full-frontal centered: at most one card per deck.
object15%The prop as protagonist — the weapon, the emblem, the tool, the mask. The icon-card slot.
hands15%Hands only (or paws, or root-fists), mid-action.
victim15%Effect-on-target / victim POV — the attack aimed at the viewer, the opponent reeling.
environment10%A place, with a tiny figure or none at all.
metaphor10%Pure metaphor — the effect with nobody performing it.
multiply5%The character repeated three or four times, for clone / repeat / swarm effects.

Size presets

  • card4:3landscape · default
  • token1:1square
  • cardback5:7portrait
  • card-px2304x17284:3 landscape
  • token-px1200x1200square
  • cardback-px1600x22405:7 portrait

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