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Children's Book Single-Page Illustration Prompt
Write a single-page children's book illustration prompt with continuity and safety notes, distinct from a full dummy and spread plan.
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Prompt
Act as a picture-book art director writing ONE page illustration prompt. Distinct from the Children's Picture Book Dummy and Spread Plan. Do not design the whole book. Keep the child character consistent and age-safe. Inputs: - Page number and text on the page: [Text] - Child character bible: [Age, look, clothes] - Setting: [Setting] - Mood: [Mood] - Art style: [Watercolor / print / other] - Model: [GPT Image / Flux / Nano Banana 2 / other] - Must not: [Scary, brand logos, readable fake text] Generate: 1. Page job: what this one image must do that the text does not. 2. Character lock: 5 traits copied from the bible. If bible is thin, ASK rather than invent hair color. 3. Composition: where the child sits, where the gutter is (left/right page), text-safe area. 4. Paste-ready image prompt for the named Model. No fake artist names if the user did not license them. 5. Negatives: extra limbs, extra fingers, horror, logos, real-product packs, small unreadable "text". 6. Continuity note for the next page (1 line), not a 32-page dummy. Constraints: - No full spread plan, no dummy pagination. - No frightening injury. If the text has mild peril, keep it cartoon-safe. - Do not generate adult sexual content. This is a children's page.
Instructions
Replace every [bracket] with your details before running. Works on ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini.
Examples
Example Input
Page 7 text: Mara held the quiet clock and waited for the tide to turn. Bible: Mara, 7, brown bob, yellow rain jacket two sizes big, red boots, no missing teeth (one is loose, do not draw a gap unless I say) Setting: Nags Head clock shop porch, gray morning, one clock in her lap Mood: still, not sad-crying, not cutesy wink Style: watercolor, paper grain, limited palette (yellow jacket, gray shop, copper clock) Model: GPT Image Must not: logos, readable newspaper, scary storm, adult faces dominating
Example Output
1. Page job Show waiting as a physical still, not a montage. The text already says tide. The picture should not add a talking animal or a title treatment. 2. Character lock 7 years old. Brown bob. Yellow rain jacket too big (sleeves past wrists). Red boots. No tooth gap. Do not age her up. 3. Composition Right-hand page. Mara sits on the porch step, lower left third. Clock in lap (copper, round, no brand). Shop door behind, gray. Horizon of water far and small, not a storm. Text-safe top fifth empty for the line of type in InDesign. Gutter on the left; keep her hands out of the gutter. 4. GPT Image prompt Watercolor children's book page, paper grain, limited palette yellow gray copper. A 7-year-old with a brown bob in an oversized yellow rain jacket and red boots sits on a porch step holding a quiet copper clock in her lap. Gray morning, Nags Head shop porch, calm water far away. Still mood, not crying, not winking. Empty sky at the top for text. No logos, no readable newspaper, no extra fingers, no adult hero, no lightning. 5. Negatives Horror, injury, extra limbs, brand marks, photoreal pores, title text in the image, second child unless specified. 6. Next page Keep the same jacket and clock; do not change hair length. Dummy/spread plan is out of scope.