Jiangsu — Letters on the Lake

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 C2 — GRAND TEA LETTERING.
Five-colour hand-drawn grand serif lettering integrated with a connected regional tea world. The large single region word is the unmistakable structural hero, fully readable with clean counters and open interiors. Put real scenes around the letter feet, in the intervals and behind selected edges. Do NOT fill the letters with photographs or landscape textures, disguise letters as mountains, or cover their skeleton. A branch, roof or working hand may cross one small edge. The letter rhythm binds varied human-scale discoveries into one authored composition.

REGION: JIANGSU. EXACT PALETTE: #355653, #B47985, #82A590, #C69D4C, #6B85A3. 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.

Create an elegant grand JIANGSU across the centre. Dongshan fruit trees and low Biluochun bushes rise behind J/I; a hand-shaping pan projects before A/N. A Yixing clay-pot maker works under the open G curve without covering it. Nanjing Yuhua's needle leaves and tasting glass stand beside S, while Yangzhou tea hospitality anchors U. Farther behind, a small Lianyungang tea ridge and one Taihu boat complete the world. Colour the word in intentional graphic ink, not an all-green scenic fill.

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: A lakeside walkway and workbench visually thread the letter feet, with most water remaining transparent. The large pan and small clay pot are close foreground objects, roof and orchard midground, boat far away. Preserve all letter contours and a broad quiet pocket around each short caption.

TEXT: Main title exactly "JIANGSU". Secondary labels, each once and attached to its correct scene: Dongshan; Xishan; 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.