# Shandong — Tea procession by the sea

Shandong · SD_C5

A joyful drawing with varying scale of leaves, people and monuments.

## Published file

250 × 75 mm · 3840 × 1152 px · RGBA · 390.144 / 390.144 ppi.

Checked for publication · Drawing review and technical check of the current file

[PNG](/assets/artwork/SD_C5.png) · [exact TXT](/assets/prompts/SD_C5.txt) · [dossier in browser](/en/docs/designs/SD_C5.html) · [collection context](/en/docs/projects/C5.html).

[Regional research and sources](/en/docs/research/shandong.md).

## Review basis

Bright crisp outline, whole SHANDONG, legible Rizhao/Laoshan/Taishan/Yimeng; picking, processing and tea drinking appear prominently, objects have natural edges.

PNG RGBA 3840 × 1152 px; real alpha channel; proportional export 250 × 75 mm.

Approved after review for the open gallery; does not imply the user's endorsement of industrial production.

## Creative brief palette

#244F67

#D08836

#819853

## Original generation prompt

The text below matches the published TXT. Inscriptions, details, and palette in the assignment are the author's intent; this is not OCR of the final image. Reference images used are not included in the TXT.

SHA-256 TXT: `41c1b41f2598d4eff5e14670909569142ae13778c414353d45d9f3243324a61b`.

```text
Create an exceptional original flat illustration for a collectible tea-region ceramic wrap. The attached image is a STYLE reference, not a content reference: preserve its drawing intelligence, print character and relationship between title, scenes and empty glaze; replace every Guangdong-specific subject and word. Output one panoramic native 3840 x 1280 pixel PNG with a genuine RGBA alpha channel. All artwork, including lettering, must remain wholly inside x60..3780 and y110..1170. The upper and lower outside bands and the external negative space must be transparent, not white paint. The final production crop will be 3840 x 1152 pixels for a 250 x 75 mm wrap; do not draw dimensions, crop marks or a frame. No mug, mockup, photograph, simulated paper, decorative rectangular background, cast shadow, checkerboard or watermark.

DRAWING AND PRINT DISCIPLINE: Use confident authored linework, recognisable local silhouettes, selective flat colour and well-resolved hands, vessels and architecture. Details reward close looking but the main story reads across a small ceramic surface. Colour belongs to actual drawn objects or deliberate bounded accents. Transparent sky, river openings, architectural gaps and open vessel interiors are part of the design. Do not use a continuous opaque landscape base, atmosphere wash, cream substrate or enormous filled silhouette behind everything. Keep deliberate pauses between major masses without making a sticker sheet. Never cut off a letter, roof, person, handle or tree at the image boundary. Do not scatter repeated generic teapots as filler. Each featured tea action must communicate a different part of the region's tea story. This is an illustrated interpretation, not a navigable map: no compass, coordinate grid, dotted connectors, numbered pins, legend or tiny labels.

COLLECTION C5 — LANDMARK PARADE.
Three-ink friendly collector illustration with bold relaxed rounded pen outlines and a memorable double-contour regional title. Draw a lively continuous procession with real changes of height, overlapping contour and unequal object scale. Tea workers, architecture and regional vessels participate in the same visual rhythm. Spare flat colour accents; interiors largely open. The connection must be a plausible local promenade, street, ridge or water route, not an arbitrary baseline of identical icons. Charming observational details without cartoon faces on objects.

REGION: SHANDONG. EXACT PALETTE: #244F67, #D08836, #819853. Use only these opaque graphic inks and their clean antialiased edges; no white ink, black substitution or extra colours. Transparent negative space is not an additional ink.

A large harvest basket starts the procession beside a Rizhao picker. Continue through a tea-maker's open bench, Laoshan rounded rocks and rows, a little Qingdao lighthouse, Qufu gate, a steep Taishan stair and a Yimeng tea-serving pair. A tiny sailing boat and bay bridge occupy the far distance. Keep the tea scenes larger and more personable than the scenic signs. No beer bottles, logos or generic vacation palm trees; this is a northern Chinese tea coast.

REGIONAL TRUTH: Shandong's documented tea identities include Laoshan green tea around Qingdao, Rizhao green tea and the Yimeng tea area around Linyi. Wanggezhuang is a major Laoshan growing and processing locality; Rizhao has tea producers in Lanshan and Ju County. Junan, Yishui and Linshu are real parts of the Yimeng tea story. Show northern coastal cultivation in low hedges, leaf handling, processing and drinking, not tea bushes growing in seawater. Taishan and Qufu are cultural landmarks, not evidence for monastic tea estates. Do not claim that Laoshan is the only seaside tea or that all Shandong hills are planted with tea.

SPECIFIC COMPOSITION: Double-contour SHANDONG spans a low centre between rock and gate. A shallow scenic curve links several contours while short unpainted breaks keep the drawing light. The nearest basket is three times the height of the far boat. Draw confident single outlines rather than fuzzy multiple sketch traces.

TEXT: Main title exactly "SHANDONG". Secondary labels, each once and attached to its correct scene: Rizhao; Laoshan; Yimeng; Taishan. No other text.

FINAL ART DIRECTION: Make every major group different in scale and gesture. Do not give every scene a surrounding halo or a separate base. A viewer should discover a clear regional idea at arm's length and then human actions, leaf shapes and local building features nearby. Keep the specified palette visible as actual graphic inks, not merely a tint over green scenery. Do not add unrequested slogans, stamps, logos, dates, Chinese characters or gibberish. The exact allowed English words below are the entire text vocabulary. Keep secondary words comfortably readable if allowed; omit a minor caption rather than shrinking it to microscopic lettering. Render the regional title exactly once and complete, with comfortable space around it. No extra title repeated on vessels or buildings. Draw a finished cohesive piece of print art, never a presentation board.
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