# Stippling (スティップリング（点描陰影）) — image generation prompt
# IndexStyle No.591 — https://indexstyle.org/styles/stippling
# Style descriptors only. This prompt names no artist, studio, brand or work.

Produce four original images in the visual language of Stippling, a technique from Hand-drawn, 16th century–.

## What to make

Make the kind of thing this style exists for: scientific illustration, natural history and portraiture with delicate volume, or giving packaging and posters quiet hand-built grain. Choose one subject and hold it across all four images.

## What has to be visible

- Countless small dots filling a contour
- Narrower spacing in darker areas
- Soft tone without hatched lines
- Grain up close and smooth volume at distance

Someone who knows this style should be able to point at each of these in the finished image.

## How to build it

- Layout and structure: Begin at the darkest point and build the subject by density rather than outline
- Type and lettering: Use a fine serif or small capitals with enough air from dotted fields
- Material and surface: Keep one nib size and vary spacing more than dot size to construct tone
- Colour: #F2E8D4 carries the ground, #8E6F54 is the colour the style is remembered by, #17130F holds text and outlines. Read off real works, so treat them as a direction rather than a fixed palette.
- What it should feel like: calm, luxury, technique

## What goes wrong

Random noise and halftone are different. Each dot's density must explain form and light.

## Across the four

Keep every cue above present in all four. Vary the framing, the scale and the arrangement so the set shows the range this style covers 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 language described above.

Full design spec: https://indexstyle.org/styles/stippling/design.md