--- name: netsi-style-like-round-family-comic description: >- Generate a finished image from an attached photograph, a described scene, or a context that needs illustration. Apply a round, bouncy mid-century family-comic style: smooth, even brush-ink contours, figures built from circles and pear shapes, squash-and-stretch acting, small emotion marks such as sweat drops and steam puffs, simple domestic settings and bright flat Sunday-paper colors. 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 cheerful family cartoons, round newspaper-strip illustrations, domestic gag images, bouncy comic portraits, or /netsi-style-like-round-family-comic. Image generation is required; a prompt alone is not the deliverable. metadata: version: "1.0.0" teaser: "Every family has that one moment: the bookshelf with a screw left over, the toast that lands butter-side down. This skill draws it. Smooth round shapes, bouncy bodies and bright Sunday-paper colors turn your photo, scene or idea into a finished family comic. The trick is the roundness: when everything is soft circles, even a small catastrophe looks friendly. You stay recognizably you, just a bit bouncier." tags: - image-generation - illustration - style-transfer - creativity - design --- # Round Family Comic Turn a familiar subject into a round, bouncy family-comic illustration. A supplied face stays recognizable; a described scene stays yours; a context becomes one clear household gag with a warm ending. Everything is built from soft circles, and even trouble looks friendly. 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-round-family-comic/images/` as anonymous visual calibration, especially `https://assets.netsi.dk/skills/netsi-style-like-round-family-comic/images/04-flatpack-chaos.png` for the domestic stage and color and `https://assets.netsi.dk/skills/netsi-style-like-round-family-comic/images/02-car.png` for figure drawing. 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, recognizable accessories, objects, framing and meaningful setting. Preserve these unless the user explicitly asks to change them. Retain the input aspect ratio by default. 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. A scene that is not domestic keeps its setting: the household vocabulary then shows through simple props, a tidy ground plane and the round drawing language, not by moving the scene indoors. 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. Choose a concrete, original everyday situation that stages the message as one readable gag: a setup, a mishap and a reaction in a single image. 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 illustration's message. Ask one focused question only when the roles conflict. ## Optional adjustments: zero to three The canonical controls are **Roundness**, **Color**, and **Fuss**. Values and defaults live in the tweaks reference. Never weaken the identity of this style by changing its smooth, even contour to a generic filter 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 "gør mig ikke for rund" may be mapped directly to a suitable value (Roundness = Natural) without asking again. Respect a scene's stated mood and content: a calm, tender moment implies Fuss = None, and a request for a print-friendly black-and-white image implies Color = Ink. 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 and the input's exact preservation constraints. If Fuss is not None, choose the emotion marks yourself from the subject's actual mood and describe them concretely in the prompt. Use descriptive traits only. Do not mention artist names, named fictional characters, existing works, studios, signatures 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 and hand gesture; check scene content; check the smooth even contour, the circle-built forms, squash-and-stretch posture, simple backgrounds and flat bright colors; check any requested lettering. The style must influence the drawing, not merely add an outline to 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 into a known cartoon character, and never draw anthropomorphic animals, mascot costumes, sailor outfits or bills and beaks. People stay human with their own clothing. Pets and other animals, if the content calls for them, stay ordinary animals on four legs. ## 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 Roundness and Color while keeping Fuss at Small. A matrix may explore Fuss 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 or recolor a photograph 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 father tries to assemble a flat-pack bookshelf while two kids and the family dog help. Screws everywhere, one shelf upside down." - Supply context: "Illustrate the Monday-morning rush for a family newsletter header. No text in the image." - Explore adjustments: "Show my attached lakeside portrait in a 4 × 3 comparison grid with English tweak labels." Bundled generated examples: `https://assets.netsi.dk/skills/netsi-style-like-round-family-comic/images/01-pool.png` and `https://assets.netsi.dk/skills/netsi-style-like-round-family-comic/images/02-car.png` (photo edits), `https://assets.netsi.dk/skills/netsi-style-like-round-family-comic/images/03-tweak-grid.png` (comparison grid), `https://assets.netsi.dk/skills/netsi-style-like-round-family-comic/images/04-flatpack-chaos.png` (scene) and `https://assets.netsi.dk/skills/netsi-style-like-round-family-comic/images/05-morning-rush-context.png` (context).