Tiny Builders Poster
A miniature-scale poster where small figures are assembling the thing the poster is about — with one declared height rule so every object stays the same size as itself. Seven fields.
We made two examples: a workbench being assembled and a bakery bench being dusted with flour. Different trades share the same discipline: three or four figures, every object measured against them, and exactly two giant objects declared in advance.
Every object keeps its size across the picture because it is measured in figures, and only the two objects you declare grow large. The figures are really working: cables pulled tight, paper half unrolled, parts roped to backs. Details like moss tufts or the colophon's direction change between images. If you ask for a brush title, write the exact words and the script you want, or it may come out in Chinese.
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Input
Occasion Vibary's first summer of open building
Unit one figure = 1 unit · laptop 2 wide · mug half ·
bench 3 long
Work four figures assembling a workbench scene - hauling
a cable, unrolling paper, hanging a lamp, carrying
a keycap
Giant one keycap as tall as a figure, one coffee cup the
size of a barrel
Title Open Build, brush script
Palette warm bone, pale oak, soft indigo, one vermilion stamp
Returned 1 poster · 9:16 · miniature scale, soft daylight
scene the workbench occupies the lower two thirds, its grain
legible, figures spread across it at consistent height
work all four are mid-action - the cable is taut, the paper
half unrolled, the lamp swinging from a hook, the
keycap balanced on a back
scale the bench is three figures long and stays three
figures long; the mug beside the cable-hauler is half
a figure and the giant cup in front is stated as the
enlarged one, so the two never contradict
type the brush title upper left with its subtitle beneath,
the colophon upper right in a thin vertical stack, the
couplet lower right, one vermilion stamp by the title
air the upper third is almost entirely pale groundYou fill in 7 fields — the braced lines at the top. Everything below them is fixed.
- 1The occasion
- 2The figure height, and what it measures
- 3The work in progress
- 4The enlarged foreground
- 5The title and its subtitle
- 6The colophon and the couplet
- 7The palette
Tiny Builders Poster
What this makes
A miniature-scale poster where small figures are assembling the thing the poster is about — with one declared height rule so every object stays the same size as itself. Seven fields.
The whole template, in one piece. The steps below are the entire workflow.
How to use it
- Copy the whole template with the button above.
- Replace the seven FIELDS lines. Write the height rule first and express every object in units — that is the field this template exists for.
- Paste it into any image-capable agent or model, in one message. One run returns the poster.
- Audit by object: find every instance of the same thing in the result and check they match. Two lanterns at two sizes means the unit was not held.
What you swap
- The occasion
- Vibary's first summer of open building
- The figure height, and what it measures
- each figure is one unit tall — a laptop is 2 units wide, a mug half a unit, a bench 3 units long
- The work in progress
- four figures assembling a workbench scene: one hauling a cable into place, one unrolling a sheet of paper, one hanging a small lamp from a stand, one carrying a keycap on their back
- The enlarged foreground
- two objects blown to giant scale and stated as such: one mechanical keycap standing as tall as a figure, and one coffee cup the size of a barrel
- The title and its subtitle
- Open Build, in brush script, the strokes dry and splitting at the ends — 'one afternoon, start to finish'
- The colophon and the couplet
- 2026 · summer series / one prompt, then the rest of the afternoon
- The palette
- warm bone ground, pale oak, soft indigo, one vermilion stamp
Before it runs
- A height unit, declared. Without one the same object appears at two sizes in the same frame, which is the specific way this style falls apart.
- Verbs for every figure. Standing, watching and posing are not work, and the whole conceit is that the scene is being built.
- Enlargement named as enlargement. The giant objects are a deliberate exaggeration and must be listed, or the model exaggerates a different one each run.
When to reach for it
For a season, a launch, a festival, an anniversary — anything where the making is part of the story. The style is charming and its failure is arithmetic: the same object appears twice at two different sizes and the little world stops holding together.
What changes
- One warm miniature scene where three or four figures are visibly working — pulling, laying, hanging, carrying — rather than standing beside things.
- Every object's size is fixed against one stated figure height, so a lantern is the same lantern wherever it appears.
- Two or three foreground objects are enlarged deliberately and declared as such, which keeps the exaggeration a decision instead of an accident.
- Eastern editorial typesetting around the scene: a brush title upper left, a colophon upper right, a couplet lower right, one stamp.
- Soft daylight, pale ground, generous emptiness — the scene sits in the lower two thirds and the type breathes above it.
Pairs with
- Diagonal Split Macro PosterA macro poster split on a diagonal — backlit translucent matter on one side, deep shadow on the other — with every text assigned to the side that can actually carry it. Seven fields.
- Film Contact SheetA contact sheet of six film frames that fills its grid completely, where the exposure printed under each frame matches the light in it. Six fields.
- Photo With Glowing Drawn FigureA real photograph with one glowing hand-drawn figure living inside it — standing on a real surface, touching a real object, and placed in the quietest part of the frame. Six fields.