SILENT TELL / Ep1-0

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Prompt

Use GPT-5.4 Image 2. Manga chapter title page (cover), vertical portrait format with an aspect ratio of exactly 2:3 (832×1248), the same size as every story page, full color, single full-page illustration. Use the attached reference images: the style reference for the art style, the title logo for the title, and the character sheets of Wren, Big Lou and Jay for their designs. ART STYLE — "Painterly Noir Pop": mature, artistic, highly original full-color manga in a distinctive graphic-novel look. STYLE DNA (strict, never generic): graphic-novel ink work with dry-brush strokes and bold black spotting; flat hard-edged shadows in a limited palette layered with gouache and oil texture; slightly off-register screen-print color and halftone dots in the shadows; angular, sculptural faces with narrow almond eyes; elongated, elegant proportions. Thick painterly oil-paint brushwork in the background. Dark moody base palette (deep charcoal, smoky navy) with signature-color accents (Wren = teal, Big Lou = mustard yellow). Extremely expressive faces, cinematic lighting, visible canvas texture. Realistic modern setting, no fantasy. AVOID generic anime faces, oversized round eyes, glossy airbrushed shading, pastel webtoon look, 3D-render look. WREN'S FACE RULE: Wren is always drawn breathtakingly beautiful, the most beautiful figure in the image. Render her face with clean, delicate linework and smooth soft shading (rough dry-brush texture only on her hair, clothes and shadows): luminous almond-shaped gray-teal eyes with long thick lashes, elegant high cheekbones, a small refined nose, soft full rose-tinted lips, flawless porcelain skin, one small beauty mark under one eye exactly as on her character sheet. CAST — EXACTLY THESE PEOPLE, EACH SHOWN ONLY ONCE: - Wren (once, center): long glossy black hair, long-sleeved black satin dress, teal drop earrings, her father's plain silver ring worn as a pendant on a thin silver chain at her chest, NO rings on her fingers. - Big Lou (once, upper right): huge bald man, round sunglasses pushed up on his head, black handlebar mustache, gold front tooth, mustard-yellow Hawaiian shirt with black palm leaves, gold chain. - Jay (once, left): very thin man, slicked-back black hair, thin goatee, black tracksuit jacket with a single white stripe, thin cigarette in the corner of his mouth. - Crowd: only a few small, dark, faceless silhouettes far in the background, in plain dark clothes. Nobody else wears a Hawaiian shirt, a yellow shirt or a tracksuit, nobody else is bald, and nobody else looks like Lou or Jay. Do not repeat Lou or Jay anywhere in the image, not even as a smaller figure, a reflection or a second pose. No other large faces in the foreground or at the corners. HANDS RULE: every visible hand is anatomically correct with exactly five digits (one thumb and four fingers), natural knuckles and proportions; no extra, missing, fused or twisted fingers. COMPOSITION: Wren sits at the center of the green felt poker table in the smoky back room, seen slightly from below. She is calm and beautiful, chin slightly raised, cool gray-teal eyes looking straight at the reader, her hands resting on a stack of teal and black poker chips, her ring pendant glinting at her chest. A soft teal light surrounds her in a perfect circle of stillness; inside the circle everything is clean, quiet and sharp. Outside the circle, chaos: Big Lou leans in from the upper right, roaring with his mouth wide open; Jay leans in from the left, cackling. Their faces are rendered in rough, smeared, aggressive brushstrokes in mustard and red tones. Three jagged shout words fill the outer area, each placed fully inside the image with a margin (never cut off by the edge) and spelled exactly: "HEY, SWEETHEART!" (upper left, below the title), "FOLD!" (upper right, below the title), "HAHAHA!" (middle right). Every letter dissolves into faint smoke as it reaches the teal circle. A few poker chips and face-down playing cards with dark navy pat

Model

GPT-5.4 Image 2

Cost

$0.25