Create an original editorial illustration brief
Translate an article's supported idea into an original visual metaphor with clear composition and rights boundaries.
Exact prompt
Create a detailed prompt for an original editorial illustration based on the supplied article context. Do not imitate a named artist or publication style.
Article idea and supported takeaway:
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Audience and placement:
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Visual and rights constraints:
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Instructions:
1. Identify the one concept the image should clarify or make memorable without adding a factual claim.
2. Propose three original visual metaphors, noting possible misreadings, cultural assumptions, and sensitive implications.
3. Select the strongest direction and specify subject, setting, relationships, focal point, viewpoint, composition, depth, lighting, palette function, texture, and emotional register.
4. Reserve safe areas for the supplied crop and interface placement without rendering text into the image unless requested.
5. Describe people inclusively and functionally without inferring ethnicity, disability, gender, age, or other traits that the brief does not require.
6. Exclude logos, protected characters, signature styles, misleading charts, watermarks, and unauthorized likenesses.
7. Add negative constraints and a review checklist for factual fit, harmful symbolism, cropping, and publication rights.
Return three concept notes, one final image prompt, negative constraints, alt-text notes, and the human review checklist.Replace before use
- Article context
{{article_context}} - The supported central idea, necessary nuance, source facts, and concepts the image must not imply.
- Audience and placement
{{placement_context}} - Audience, channel, aspect ratios, crops, surrounding text, device sizes, and accessibility purpose.
- Visual and rights constraints
{{visual_constraints}} - Owned brand elements, allowed references, exclusions, sensitivity, licensing, and production limitations.