Stele Rubbing

An ink stele rubbing — white carved characters on a black ground; the serious-title style.

Swatch shows the same line — Signal over noise — rendered in this material, so the surface is the only variable.

Prompt formula

SURFACE:  A hand-taken ink rubbing - damp paper was pressed onto a carved stone stele and tamped with an ink pad, so the carved recesses stay PAPER-WHITE and everything else is a dense charcoal-black field. The tell of a real rubbing must be everywhere — the ink is not flat - it is built from countless tiny tamping dabs, denser in the middle and thinning toward the edges; the stone's natural pitting, weathering scars and a crack or two come through as pale mottling and irregular white speckles; the paper shows soft creases, fibre texture, slightly torn deckle edges and one dog-eared corner. Characters are stone-carved forms — clerical/seal script energy with blunt chiselled terminals, NOT brush-written. Palette strictly monochrome - charcoal-black ink, warm off-white paper, and one small vermilion collector's seal as the ONLY colour in the image.
SKELETON: auto by page role (cover / chapter / list / compare)
DEVICE:   the page's argument drawn as a form native to this material
END:      Full-bleed 16:9 — render DEVICE on the SURFACE, per the page's composition.
CRITICAL: title in clean legible English; NEVER invent extra words or non-English glyphs;
annotations only as marks / numbers / dimension lines; no UI, no cards, no captions.

Source

Material recipe from the PPT-Zen 32-material library. Our own artwork.

License: CC-BY-4.0 · contributions via DCO

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