Use case: illustration-story
Asset type: standalone editorial spot illustration, style transfer experiment for a reusable skill.
Input image 1 is STYLE REFERENCE ONLY. Study its black ink contours, sparse orange and vermilion flat fills, white space, endearing simplified figure and humorous scale mismatch. Create an original scene, not a redraw.
Primary request: A tiny maintenance worker wearing orange coveralls and a simple white round protective helmet is leaning forward with both hands physically pushing the broad back edge of a gigantic white folded paper airplane toward the lower left. Both hands visibly meet the same back edge; the arms bear weight, knees bend, black shoes brace behind. The paper airplane is the single main object, a large simple folded triangular silhouette with two clear fold lines. A small vermilion red tool case sits separately to the lower right, without any emblem. Two short black effort marks near the worker.
Style/medium: spontaneous pen-and-ink editorial cartoon, confident slightly irregular black lines with subtle natural width variation and round ends; clean flat opaque color fills. The reference linework is economical, not scribbly, not distressed. White helmet and face with just two dot eyes and a tiny nose, bulky rounded sleeves, simple mitten hands. Pure black shoes and a very narrow black underside along the paper folds serve as solid graphic mass, not cast shadows.
Composition: vertical white canvas about 4:5; single compact vignette, gently oblique view from above, loose perspective rather than precise isometric geometry. Preserve generous clean white margin around every object. Clear diagonal action. One worker, one plane, one small case.
Palette: pure white background and paper and face; near-black ink; warm orange #FF902A for the coveralls; vermilion #F04B32 for the case. These are the only flat color families.
Avoid gradients, tonal shading, ambient shadows, gray paper faces, realistic lighting, 3D rendering, glossy surfaces, heavy grain, hatching, crosshatching, extra scenery, extra people, complicated clothing details, perfectly uniform vector outlines, text, letters, captions, logos, watermarks.
