Snow Country

This prompt generates text-free artwork. The title and author are composed separately afterward.

Use case: illustration-story.
Create ONE original literary cover ILLUSTRATION LAYER, not a finished cover. Exact title and author will be typeset later from font files. Portrait 2:3, exactly 1024 by 1536 pixels, PNG preferred. Flat edge-to-edge paper, no book mockup.
Art direction: quiet mid-century printmaking, broad confident shapes, irregular ink edges, very fine natural paper grain, matte warm ivory (#f1ede3). No more than TWO muted ink colours plus graphite linework and paper. Very few small details. An inhabitable spatial scene with weather, distance or absence, never a floating icon, logo, sticker or decorative emblem.
PRODUCTION COMPOSITION: reserve the ENTIRE TOP 43% (y=0 through660) as empty warm ivory for separate typography. All meaningful illustration occupies y=720 through1330, roughly 47%–87%. Entire bottom 9% (y=1398 through1536) stays clean, empty warm ivory for the author line. Scene may reach left/right edges inside its own area. No border or artificially white rectangle pasted over an image. Quiet space is part of the composition. Coherent at 180 pixels wide.
No text, letterlike marks, digits, signature, watermark, publisher logo, frames, collage, glossy 3D, photorealism, cute cartoon, ornate ornament or heavy distressed texture. No green. Make an original interpretation, not a copy of a published cover.

Work: Snow Country / 雪国, by Yasunari Kawabata.
Emotional tension: Beauty and human warmth felt at an unbridgeable distance.
Scene: An expansive winter snow slope in the Japanese mountains, flattened into two gently diagonal blue-grey shadow bands. A very small low-roofed inn sits at the far right of the slope, one dusty rose window softly warm without glow. No detailed architecture. The paper itself is the snow, merging upward into the empty title field, with the first actual printed shape no higher than y=760. A single dark bare twig at the far left may balance the distant building, no more than three strokes. Keep the bottom y=1380 to1536 untouched ivory.
Visual decision: A tiny warm opening separated from the viewer by an enormous field of unprinted snow.
Palette: #7c94a6 and #9f6b65. Render as restrained printed inks, not glossy gradients.
Omit: Train tracks, trains, geisha figures, Mount Fuji, cherry blossoms, ornamental snowflakes and dramatic skies.

Generated: 2026-10-16
Tool: OpenAI built-in image generation; exact model version not exposed by the tool.