Ian Xiaohei Editorial Illustrations

Purpose

Create 16:9 horizontal illustrations for article body sections and blog headers. The goal is not commercial illustration, a slide, or a cute cartoon. Turn the article's key judgment, process, structure, state, or metaphor into a clean, weird, creative, readable-but-not-instructional hand-drawn explanation.

The default visual IP is Xiaohei: a solid-black creature with white dot eyes, thin legs, and a blank expression, seriously doing something absurd but meaningful. Xiaohei must participate in the central action, not stand beside it as decoration.

Default language rule

All visible image text must be English by default. This includes labels, notes, signs, fictional UI text, and tiny annotations. Do not mix in Chinese or other languages unless the user explicitly requests another language.

Keep English labels short, natural, and correctly spelled. Prefer 2–5 words per label.

Read these references as needed

Do not load every reference unless the task needs it: