--- name: netsi-style-like-adventure-ink description: >- Generate a finished image from an attached photograph, a described scene, or a context that needs illustration. Apply a classic adventure-strip ink style: bold, tapered brush contours, figures and objects that read instantly as clear silhouettes, cinematic framing with layered foreground, middle ground and distance, spotted solid blacks and structured shadow tones made of ruled diagonal lines and crosshatch screens, in crisp black and white or restrained print color. Preserve recognizable people and source-image content. Offer up to three relevant optional style adjustments and generate a labeled comparison grid when requested. Use for vintage adventure comic illustrations, expedition and travel art, pulp-era ink drawings, or /netsi-style-like-adventure-ink. Image generation is required; a prompt alone is not the deliverable. metadata: version: "1.0.0" teaser: "Squint at an old adventure poster and you can still read it: the hero, the plane, the danger, all in black shapes. This skill draws for that squint. Bold brush ink, clear silhouettes and patterned shadow tones turn your photo, scene or idea into a finished adventure panel. The trick: the shadows are not smudged gray but a structured screen of fine ruled lines, so even a quiet afternoon looks like the first page of an expedition. Pack light." tags: - image-generation - illustration - style-transfer - creativity - design --- # Adventure Ink Turn a familiar subject into a crisp, confident adventure-strip panel. A supplied face stays recognizable; a described scene stays yours; a context becomes a moment on the edge of an expedition. Every shape reads as a silhouette, and every shadow is built from structured line tone. Deliver the image itself. ## Required capabilities and resources - Use an image-generation/editing tool. For a photograph, use an actual image edit with the photograph attached as the edit target. Do not reconstruct it from a description alone. - Use **netsi-prompt-generator** for the internal image prompt. If it is installed, read its instructions. Otherwise read the bundled, complete copy at `references/prompt-generator.md` and apply that skill's workflow to the prompt subtask. - Read `references/style-profile.md` before composing the prompt, and `references/tweaks.md` when adjustments or a comparison are relevant. - Inspect the bundled generated examples in `https://assets.netsi.dk/skills/netsi-style-like-adventure-ink/images/` as anonymous visual calibration, especially `https://assets.netsi.dk/skills/netsi-style-like-adventure-ink/images/04-jungle-airstrip.png` for silhouettes, framing and tone patterns and `https://assets.netsi.dk/skills/netsi-style-like-adventure-ink/images/01-pool.png` for how a real face is carried by brush contours and tone. When the image tool supports multiple references, supply the input photograph as the **edit target** and a relevant bundled illustration as the **style reference only**. In a new scene, the bundled illustrations are style references only. Never copy their subject, composition, identity or labels into the user's result. Do not redistribute historical research scans. - The prompt generator's output contract applies internally: its English prompt goes to the image tool. The parent skill's user-facing deliverable remains the finished image. - If image generation is unavailable, say that clearly in the user's language. Do not label an English prompt or a mockup as a generated image. Never silently substitute a different provider or paid API. ## Recognize one of three inputs **A — Image.** Inspect the photograph. Record the person or subject, face proportions, age, expression, pose, hands, clothing, glasses, tattoos, jewelry, recognizable accessories, objects, framing, light direction and meaningful setting. Preserve these unless the user explicitly asks to change them. Retain the input aspect ratio by default. The source light direction becomes the single strong light that shapes the tone shadows. A style reference is a different role from the edit target; do not swap them. **B — Scene.** Extract who or what is present, actions, setting, composition and any explicit constraints. Keep the scene's content. An office, a kitchen or a city street keeps its setting: the adventure vocabulary appears through framing, silhouettes, a strong light and structured shadow, not by moving the scene to a jungle. If no aspect ratio is supplied, use 16:9 for a scene; follow a stated medium such as a square social post instead when provided. **C — Context.** Extract the message, audience, mood and destination from the supplied text or conversation. Translate it into one original moment on the edge of an expedition, a voyage or a flight, whose silhouette tells the message at a glance. Do not invent facts, numbers, quotations or branding. Make the message understandable without text by default. Ask only if materially different interpretations prevent a useful result. Use the requested destination's aspect ratio, otherwise 16:9. If inputs are combined, infer their roles: for example, an image is the subject and a paragraph supplies the adventure moment. Ask one focused question only when the roles conflict. ## Optional adjustments: zero to three The canonical controls are **Tone**, **Color**, and **Drama**. Values and defaults live in the tweaks reference. Never weaken the identity of this style by changing its brush contours and structured line tone to a generic filter, gray airbrush or another medium. If the request is clear, apply the explicit values or defaults and generate immediately. Do not require a questionnaire. If the user asks to explore, requests a materially ambiguous adjustment, or a meaningful unresolved choice would change the result, use an **AskUserQuestion** interaction: the environment's interactive question tool, or the same concise question in chat when no such tool is available. Offer at most three relevant tweak controls. Ask one focused question at a time, explain its visual effect in plain language, place the recommended/default answer first, and allow a custom answer and discussion. Where tool schemas add free text automatically, do not duplicate it with a fake option. Infer answers already supplied. Do not mistake silence for consent to a material change. If the user simply wants the default image, no question is needed. Translate questions, explanations and choices into the user's language. Canonical parameter values stay English in prompts and grid labels. Natural-language requests such as "med farver" may be mapped directly to a suitable value (Color = Pulp) without asking again. Respect a scene's stated lighting and content: a night scene implies Tone = Night, and a peaceful family moment implies Drama = Calm. Stated content takes precedence over a style default. ## Generate, inspect, deliver 1. Inspect the input and identify its type and invariants. 2. Load the detailed style profile. Resolve any relevant optional adjustments. 3. Apply **netsi-prompt-generator** to form one self-contained internal prompt with role, task, context/constraints and output format. Explicitly set **the entire image-tool prompt to English**, regardless of the dialogue language. Preserve requested in-image text verbatim in its requested language; this is the only language exception inside the English instructions. 4. Include the profile's core traits, their priorities, selected tweak values, the single light direction and the input's exact preservation constraints. Describe which areas take solid black, which take single-direction line tone and which take crosshatch tone. Use descriptive traits only. Do not mention artist names, named fictional characters, existing works, signatures, product names of tone materials or imitation slogans. 5. Generate or edit the actual image. For a local edit target, inspect it before editing and pass the file through the image tool's supported reference mechanism. 6. Inspect the result: recognize the subject; check face, expression, accessories, tattoos and hand gesture; check scene content; check the tapered brush contours, readable silhouettes, layered framing, spotted blacks, shadows built from ruled line tone rather than soft gray, the requested color and any requested lettering. The style must influence the drawing, not merely threshold or tint the photograph. 7. If a material defect exists, make a focused revision and inspect again. Keep a consistent target identity and do not silently alter the scene to make the drawing easier. 8. Deliver the finished image, with at most a short useful caption in the user's language. Keep the internal prompt hidden unless the user explicitly asks for it. Save final project-bound assets in that project's folder; do not overwrite the source photograph. Never turn a person into an animal or a known comic hero, and never add uniforms, insignia, weapons or military gear that the source or the user did not supply. Drama changes the surroundings, the light and the framing, never the subject's face, pose or accessories. ## Comparison grids When requested, create one **16:9 image with 4 columns × 3 rows** (12 image cells). Use the same subject, identity, pose, objects and crop in every cell. Reserve a legible label strip under each image, inside the overall canvas. Labels contain the exact English parameter names and values, never artist names. Use the schedule in `references/tweaks.md`: it includes the default and varies Tone and Color while keeping Drama at Alert. A matrix may explore Drama instead if requested, but must state the exact changed values. Generate the artwork with the image tool. Use supported layout/text composition tools to assemble a precise grid if available; do not use code to imitate the illustration, threshold a photograph or overlay line patterns as a substitute. A single image-tool call may render the complete labeled grid. Verify 12 cells, order, visible differences, literal labels and a 16:9 canvas (allow one pixel of integer raster rounding) before delivering. Regenerate if lettering or structure is wrong. Do not claim pixel-identical identity or perfectly isolated experimental control: image generation can vary details. Aim for faithful, visually comparable variations and disclose a material limitation if it remains. ## Start with an example - Attach a photograph: "Apply this style. Keep the face, pose and surroundings recognizable." - Describe a scene: "A pilot and a mechanic push a small propeller plane out of a palm-roofed hangar at a jungle airstrip at dawn, while storm clouds gather over the mountains." - Supply context: "Illustrate taking a calculated risk on a new venture, for a keynote slide. No text in the image." - Explore adjustments: "Show my attached lakeside portrait in a 4 × 3 comparison grid with English tweak labels." See `EXAMPLES.md` for actual generated outputs, source photos and the comparison grid.