What you get
Draw the figure too large and the metaphor dies — the author's first failure case.
Orange-Line Illustration: One Accent, Tiny Figures
Added 2026-08-06The single accent colour is fixed at #F97316 on pure white, no shadow, no gradient. Figures must be tiny — over a tenth of the frame is too large, and the author warns that models love to inflate people.
Two formats: interior pages at 3:2 with a short orange rule and grey pull-quote bottom-left; covers at an ultra-wide 21:9 with the title as anchor. Three reusable characters, one a cat drawn in ten to twelve unclosed strokes the viewer's eye completes. The working philosophy is draw cards, do not inspect: generation is cheap, AI self-checking expensive and low-yield, human taste the quality gate. Scale contrast must be stated twice, once on the person and once on the object, or the model levels them.