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: White Horse Neighs in the West Wind by Jin Yong. A solitary small ivory-white horse in side profile walks slowly across one broad low muted-ochre dune. Its mane and tail are just two fine warm-charcoal flowing lines, with a single delicate curved trail in the sand. Quiet open desert and melancholy expressed through very few shapes. No rider, no sun, no mountains, no plants, no buildings, no decorative border.