# Raku Ware × Sumi-e — composed image prompt
# IndexStyle — https://indexstyle.org/compose?ids=raku-ware+sumi-e
# Raku Ware carries the structure and Sumi-e appears as the accent.
# Style descriptors only. This prompt names no artist, studio, brand or work.

Produce four original images that take their structure from Raku Ware (style, 16th century–) and their accent from Sumi-e (technique, Tang dynasty–present).

## What to make

Make the kind of thing Raku Ware exists for: making vessels or ceramic lighting where every piece is expected to come out different, or stepping away from industrial uniformity to keep an object light and warm in the hand. Choose one subject and hold it across all four.

## Structure comes from Raku Ware

- Glaze that pools thickly and crawls to a stop short of the rim
- A fine crackle across the whole glazed surface, left by the sudden cooling
- Bare foot rings and bases where the soft porous body shows through unglazed
- Colour variation that lands in a different place and amount on every piece from one firing

Composition: Sized for the hand, with an uneven rim and no fixed front, meant to be turned while looked at. Type and lettering: Keep text off the body, with at most a single small mark under the foot.

## Accent comes from Sumi-e, used sparingly

- Ink gradation
- Dry-brush scratch
- Vast emptiness
- The speed of one stroke

Let one material quality come from it: Ink, unbleached paper, absorption, bleed.

## Colour and feeling

Build the ground on #CFC6B4, carry the structure in #9C5B41 and #232019, and let a single accent come from #8c887c. These are read off real works, so a direction rather than a fixed palette.
Feeling to carry: calm, technique, intimacy, luxury.

## Where they fight

- Raku Ware and Sumi-e stand roughly 932 years apart. Keep one of them recognisably period rather than letting both drift into the middle.

## What goes wrong

- Raku Ware: Drawing crackle and warping on as surface pattern puts the lines where no stress ever ran, and the result reads as decoration rather than as the record of a firing.
- Sumi-e: Not a black brush texture dropped in. Design the stroke order and the meaning of the emptiness.

## Across the four

Keep the roles fixed in all four. Vary the framing, the scale and the arrangement so the set shows what this pairing can do rather than four versions of one picture.

## Constraints

- Do not imitate, reference or name any specific artist, studio, brand, character or copyrighted work.
- Do not reproduce the composition of an existing work.
- Produce original compositions in the general period languages described above.

Design specs for each entry: https://indexstyle.org/styles/raku-ware/design.md · https://indexstyle.org/styles/sumi-e/design.md