Jiangsu — Hands of leaf and clay

RENDERING REQUIREMENTS: Produce a new, completely crisp region-specific illustration. Borrow ONLY drawing style from the references; do not copy their region, title or place names. Use the exact region and English lettering in the brief. No blurred patches, mist, smoky shading, translucent brush smears or soft-focus architectural details. No clipping of objects or letters: keep an 80-pixel clear safety margin around the complete composition. True PNG RGBA transparency between the drawn shapes; no opaque white or coloured backing. Sharp ink edges, legible deliberate lettering.

PRODUCTION CALIBRATION: use the supplied crisp print illustration as the leading standard for edge clarity, and use any cup photo only for its hand-drawn spirit. Create original local subjects; never reproduce the reference title or region. All strokes and letters must be sharp, complete, readable and deliberately drawn. No painterly blur, soft dirty halos, translucent smearing, duplicated words or pseudo-writing. Every complete object and letter stays 120 pixels inside each native edge. All unpainted exterior and interior openings must be genuine transparent alpha, not an opaque white canvas. Replace any weak fine detail with fewer clear graphic marks.

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 C1 — ENGRAVED TEA CONSTELLATION.
Two carefully separated spot inks. Organic engraved contours, selective small hatching and beautiful botanical structure, not grey photographic shading. A major tea subject anchors one side while smaller living stories nest into shared terraces, a riverbank or an architectural contour; these threads connect the illustration without enclosing it. A tall narrow serif regional title occupies a clear deliberate pocket. Vary foreground, middle distance and far silhouettes; avoid uniform line density and isolated circular vignettes.

REGION: JIANGSU. EXACT PALETTE: #355653, #B47985. 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 pair of hands shapes fine curled Biluochun leaves over an open pan on the left; on the right a Yixing craftsperson assembles a small clay teapot body at a plain workbench using a paddle and separate lid. Behind the leaf hands, low tea shrubs grow beneath a fruit-tree branch on a Taihu slope. Nanjing needle-shaped Yuhua leaves appear on a distinct small sorting tray. A Lianyungang Yunwu hill tea shed recedes at the back, while a Yangzhou host pours tea beside a modest refreshment dish. Use specific leaf curls, clay seams and clear vessel handles.

REGIONAL TRUTH: Dongting Biluochun belongs to Dongshan and Xishan/Jinting by Lake Taihu and its tea-fruit intercropping landscape. Its fine curled leaves are shaped by hand in a pan. Nanjing Yuhua is a needle-shaped green tea, not Biluochun. Yixing combines Yangxian tea production with a separate zisha teaware craft; pots are not grown or mass wheel-thrown as porcelain. Lianyungang has Yunwu tea. Yangzhou's tea-table culture and tea refreshments provide a hospitality counterpart. Keep these distinct growing, processing, vessel-making and social functions visible. No medicinal effects or invented claim that the lake is itself planted with tea.

SPECIFIC COMPOSITION: The two crafts share one sinuous bench-and-lake rhythm, with a transparent opening between them. A fruit branch arcs above one edge of the title, the teapot handle echoes it below. Two-ink engraved detail is concentrated on leaves and hands; distant trees and eaves remain simple.

TEXT: Main title exactly "JIANGSU". Secondary labels, each once and attached to its correct scene: Dongting Biluochun; Yixing; Nanjing Yuhua; Lianyungang; Yangzhou. 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.