Comic / Storyboard - Minimalist Hand-Drawn Ink Sketch
A prompt for creating minimalist, naive paper sketches with shaky ink lines and significant white space.
Generate a minimalist and naive hand-drawn image on paper based on a specific theme. First, extract the theme from complete photographic information and compress it into a few recognizable shaky black lines, minimal identifying outlines, and a few key symbols, then let a large expanse of clean white space support it. The subject is understood through its outer silhouette, posture, holes, edges, object relationships, and one or two handwritten marks; the lines are like black ink pens or thick pencils on paper, with uneven thickness, slight black accumulation at turns, circular shapes with hand-shaking deviations, long lines drifting slightly, and internal details leaving only necessary short lines. The complexity of the object should be reduced to the threshold of recognition—one stroke less makes it hard to recognize, one stroke more makes it too refined. Clothing, utensils, plants, architecture, food, machines, or abstract symbols are all transformed into white surfaces, black edges, loose connection lines, and a small feature that best explains their identity. If figures appear, the face remains paper-white, using only dot-like eyes, short nose lines, and minimal expressions; hair, beards, clothing folds, hands, and feet are compressed into blackened blocks, broken lines, or loose outlines, making the figure look like a remembered symbol rather than a portrait. The background is a paper field or a light-colored flat field, serving the functions of breathing, scale, and quiet observation, with obvious white space reserved above and around; a single subject falls in the middle or lower position, while multi-element content is compressed into a low-level horizontal relationship band, connected by a few vibrating bottom lines, keeping the upper void silent. Colors submit to black lines and white space, with white or near-white backgrounds occupying the largest area; black lines have structural authority, and low-saturation light colors are only used for physical grouping and emotional temperature, while small areas of warm or dark colors serve as semantic emphasis; coloring is slightly uneven, with edges slightly misaligned from the outline, retaining paper-white leaks, grain, and a sense of manual smearing. If text appears, it should look like low-precision labels or small notes written on the surface of objects with the same black pen, with uneven glyphs, loose spacing, and slight misalignment, but still readable; the text belongs to the object itself rather than an external layout. The overall piece maintains a tension between low completion and high-definition recognition, like a carefully kept casual sketch: empty, light, clumsy, readable, with a slight scanned paper feel, ink residue, broken lines, repeated strokes, and non-uniform coloring marks.
