Style Spectrum: Four Illustration Languages from Realism to Flat

A "style spectrum" comparison experiment using ideogram-v4's text-to-image capability: the same subject—a silhouetted figure beneath a city skyline at dusk—is rendered in four stylistic languages: realistic impasto, decorative semi-flat, minimalist flat vector, and silkscreen print, to observe the boundaries of the model's transfer across rendering texture, line work, and color-block handling. This entry was genuinely generated by the author's pipeline. The inputs use the schema-declared prompt, aspect_ratio, rendering_speed, and output_format fields, with aspect_ratio fixed at 16:9 for side-by-side comparison. The prompt deliberately layers "style description" and "image content": it first locks down the subject and composition, then overlays style-medium terms (oil-paint brushwork, vector color blocks, color-registration offset, etc.), so that style terms do not drown out the subject. Use cases: providing style anchor references for design teams; validating the same model's output stability across different levels of abstraction; and serving as a reusable input template for early-stage style exploration in illustration projects.