| 1 | # Rendering: watercolor |
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| 3 | Painterly soft edges, color bleeding, organic flow. The most "artistic" rendering — used for lifestyle, travel, brand story, personal narrative, creative content where mood matters more than data clarity. |
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| 5 | ## 1. Style paragraph (paste-ready, 100 words) |
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| 7 | > Watercolor painting style with soft painterly edges and natural color bleeding. Forms emerge from washes of pigment rather than outlines — sometimes a subject is suggested by where the wash darkens, not by a line. Color pools and bleeds at edges, with characteristic "wet-on-wet" zones where one color transitions into another. Composition feels organic and intentional — not loose like a sketch, but flowing. Negative space is part of the artwork (untouched paper). Optional very subtle pencil lines suggest underlying structure without dominating. Overall feel is calm, contemplative, artistic — well suited to narrative pages and atmosphere-setting content. |
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| 11 | ## 2. Line, texture, depth |
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| 13 | | Aspect | Treatment | |
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| 15 | | Line quality | Minimal — forms defined by color washes, not outlines | |
| 16 | | Texture | Paper grain at 12-18% visible, characteristic wash bleeding at edges | |
| 17 | | Depth | Achieved through color saturation gradient — saturated foreground, paler background | |
| 18 | | Material | Watercolor + cold-press paper | |
| 19 | | Mood | Calm, contemplative, artistic | |
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| 21 | ## 3. Using the deck's HEX values |
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| 23 | watercolor uses HEX values as **wash pigments**, not flat fills: |
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| 25 | - Primary HEX: dominant wash zone, with natural saturation gradient |
| 26 | - Secondary HEX: background wash or untouched paper field |
| 27 | - Accent HEX: a small concentrated pigment zone where saturation pools |
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| 31 | ## 4. Fewshot prompt snippets |
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| 33 | **Snippet A — half-page narrative scene, text_policy: none** |
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| 35 | > Watercolor painting style. A soft mountain landscape suggested by overlapping color washes — distant peaks in pale primary teal `#0F766E` bleeding into the upper third, midground hills in slightly more saturated teal with natural wet-on-wet color pooling, foreground in warm accent terracotta `#C2410C` suggesting a path or warm earth. Untouched paper at the very top creates a calm sky. No outlines defining the forms — they emerge from where the pigment darkens. Subtle paper grain texture at 15% opacity across the painting. Composed as a 600×800 half-page block with 10% inner padding. Atmospheric and contemplative. NO text, no labels anywhere. Color values are rendering guidance only. |