Use case: illustration-story. Create ONE original literary book-cover ARTWORK for an elegant quiet bilingual personal library website. Portrait 2:3 aspect ratio, flat edge-to-edge artwork; no book mockup, no surrounding desk, no perspective. Series direction: restrained mid-century literary printmaking, spare symbolic forms, very fine subtle paper grain, a few confident irregular ink lines, matte warm ivory paper (#f1ede3), generous unprinted space. Recognisable at 180 pixels wide. The TOP 43% must remain calm completely unmarked ivory reserved for live title typography. Confine the illustration to roughly 47%–86% height. The BOTTOM 10% must be clean ivory for a live author name. Only two main ink colors plus ivory, no green. No text, lettering, numerals, symbols resembling letters, logos, signatures or publisher marks. No detailed scenic painting, glossy 3D, cute cartoon, ornate frame or heavy distressed texture.
Book inspiration: Ordinary World (平凡的世界) by Lu Yao. A simple terraced loess hillside, rendered as two broad muted-ochre curves with one small deep ink-blue cave-dwelling doorway cut into the earth. A narrow ivory footpath winds upward through the ochre forms toward the doorway. Suggest the quiet dignity of everyday rural life, perseverance and hope, with one integrated emblem and ample silence. Bold but gentle shapes, only a few fine charcoal contour strokes. No people, no skyline, no lettering, no sun, no extra buildings, no montage, no machinery or decorative objects. Make this feel like another book in the same restrained warm-ivory printmaking series as the existing shelves.