2:3 / 1024 × 1536 / WARM IVORY PAPER
VOL. 01 / 02
The Count of Monte Cristo
基督山伯爵 · Alexandre Dumas
Isolation, with the possibility of escape.
Dark water encircles an island fortress. One warm opening interrupts its silence; the curve of the sea holds confinement and freedom together.
Swords, chains and crowns give way to a spatial story.
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An independent cover study, not a publisher edition. Illustration generated with AI; title and author typeset in code.
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This prompt generates text-free artwork. The title and author are composed separately afterward.
Use case: illustration-story. Create one original high-end literary book-cover ARTWORK for a quiet bilingual personal library website. Portrait 2:3 aspect ratio, flat edge-to-edge image, no book mockup, no surrounding desk, no perspective, no lettering of any kind. Shared series art direction: restrained mid-century literary printmaking, contemporary editorial taste, bold but spare symbolic forms, very fine natural paper grain, a handful of confident irregular ink lines, matte warm ivory paper (#f1ede3), generous unprinted space. Elegant and humane, recognisable at 180 pixels wide. NOT a detailed scenic painting, NOT glossy 3D, NOT cute cartoon, NOT generic stock art, no ornate frame, no heavy distressed texture, no green. Use only two main ink colors plus the ivory paper. The top 43% of the canvas must remain calm unmarked ivory, reserved for live bilingual title typography. Place the single symbolic illustration in the lower-middle region (roughly 46% to 88% height), with the bottom 9% again clean ivory for an author name added later. Do not draw any text, symbols resembling letters, logos, publisher marks, signatures, or numerals. Image should feel like a beautifully art-directed small-press classic. Book: The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas. A solitary pale limestone island fortress rising out of deep ink-blue Mediterranean water. Reduce the castle to a compact silhouette with just one narrow glowing ochre opening; two broad curved blue bands suggest the sea around it. A few precise charcoal details only. The island and sea make one coherent emblem, slightly off center, striking clear silhouette, mystery and the possibility of freedom. Main ink colors deep midnight blue and very muted gold. No people, ships, swords, crowns, chains, moon, landscape collage or extra decorative props.
Generated: 2026-10-15
Tool: OpenAI built-in image generation; exact model version not exposed by the tool.