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Réglure

Illustration: Crosshatching, Stippling

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The prompt

{subject}, a black pen-and-ink plate rendered in confident contour outlines with disciplined crosshatching and stippling on warm off-white studio paper with visible tooth and grain, {palette}, thin printed black ruled register lines crossing the composition as a publication grid, a few rough rotated brush-gesture strokes breaking the panel edges, and ONE small electric accent register mark (a cross-mark plus a short underline) as the only color, everything else pure black ink, full-frame edge to edge, quiet curatorial art-book seriousness

Materials
Pen and ink, Paper
Techniques
Crosshatching, Stippling

pen and ink, crosshatch, contour line, register mark, publication plate

Slot recipes

How the prompt changes for each kind of picture.

  • Hero: {subject} drawn large to fill the full 16:9 frame as a Réglure pen-and-ink plate, dense contour and crosshatch reaching all four edges, ruled register grid laid over it, one electric accent cross-mark in a corner, warm-white paper tooth, no whitespace, no text
  • Feature: {subject} as a centered Réglure ink plate, crosshatch and stipple building the volume, framed by thin black ruled register lines with a small accent registration cross and short underline, warm off-white paper, full-frame
  • Avatar: a single {subject} head-and-shoulders rendered as a tight Réglure pen-and-ink portrait, parallel-line shading and stipple, one ruled corner mark and a tiny electric accent cross, warm-white ground, square full-frame
  • Empty state: a sparse single {subject} as a quiet Réglure ink contour study on warm-white paper with one ruled baseline and a lone small accent register mark, restrained crosshatch, calm and curatorial, full-frame, no text
  • Illustration: a layered editorial composition of {subject} as interlocking Réglure ink plates, varied crosshatch densities and a rough brush-gesture stroke crossing a ruled register grid, single electric accent mark, warm-white paper tooth, full-frame edge to edge

Guidance

Do

  • Build every subject from confident black contour outlines first, then add crosshatch and stipple for volume.
  • Lay thin printed black ruled register lines across the composition so it reads as a publication plate.
  • Reserve exactly one electric accent (vermilion or cobalt) for a small register cross-mark plus a short underline, under 5% of the area.
  • Keep the ground pure warm off-white with subtle paper tooth and grain.
  • Let one or two rough, slightly rotated brush-gesture strokes break a panel edge for hand presence.
  • Fill the whole frame edge to edge with the drawn subject.

Don’t

  • Do not flood any area with the accent color or introduce a second or third accent.
  • Do not leave blank margins, empty quadrants, or marketing whitespace.
  • Do not add gradients, glow, glossy 3D, photographic texture, or painterly blur.
  • Do not render text, captions, signatures, or watermarks.
  • Do not let gesture strokes obscure the subject's readable contour.

In the lineage of

  • Pen-and-ink plate illustration, tradition. ruled contour discipline

A generated style is an aggregate of many influences. Credit goes to the artists and traditions it draws on; it is not a claim of authorship.

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Remix with this style

Apply Réglure to any UI language and swap the palette: the preview takes this style's hero image.