Black Ink Event Poster
A black-ink event poster on white — a scribbled scene, a fat brush headline, asides in the margins — with the tool count fixed so it reads as one hand. Six fields.
We made two examples: both keep the brush headline, one thin pen for everything else, and four asides written into the drawing rather than stacked beside it. In the second, the closing line and the credit were read as one line, so the copyright ended up hand-lettered when it belongs in the typeset block. To avoid this, give the closing line and the credit as separate texts.
You get a black-ink poster on white with a brush for the headline and a single thin pen for everything else: the figure, the hatching, the asides and the closing line. The closing line is drawn by hand, with letters that differ from each other and strokes that carry pressure, not set in a script typeface. It is the most delicate part, so check it first in your own images.
Generated for this library
Input
Headline BLOOM CUPPING
Scene a barista leaning over a rolling cart, lifting a
cupping bowl to their nose, eyes wide; bowls,
kettle, cup stack and a jar of spoons on top
Asides SNIFF SNIFF YES! on the apron · tiny beans, big
stories. lower left · GOOD COFFEE TALKS. right
Line COFFEE IS A CONVERSATION.
Info BLOOM COFFEE × SLOW LAB · Coffee Cupping Workshop
· 2026.06.18 19:30 · No. 27 Garden Street
Close Taste, Smell, Share, Slow Down · © 2026 BLOOM
COFFEE. All Rights Reserved.
Returned 1 poster · 2:3 · black ink on white
nibs two - the brush for the headline and the heavy
accents, the thin pen for everything drawn
hand the asides carry the linework's slant and wobble;
set beside the drawing they read as the same person
tone every grey is hatching - no fills, no gradients,
nothing the pen could not make
type one plain sans for the information, set as type and
looking like type
closing the closing line drawn with the thin pen, not set in
a script faceYou fill in 6 fields — the braced lines at the top. Everything below them is fixed.
- 1The headline
- 2The scene — who, and what they are doing
- 3The asides, written in the margins
- 4The line on the cart or wall
- 5The information block
- 6The closing line and the credit
Black Ink Event Poster
What this makes
A black-ink event poster on white — a scribbled scene, a fat brush headline, asides in the margins — with the tool count fixed so it reads as one hand. Six 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 six FIELDS lines. Say where each aside goes — on the apron, at the lower left — since their placement in the drawing is what stops them becoming a caption block.
- Paste it into any image-capable agent or model, in one message. One run returns the poster.
- Count the tools before shipping. Thick pen, thin pen, one typeset face — that is three. A fourth means something is imitating a hand.
What you swap
- The headline
- BLOOM CUPPING
- The scene — who, and what they are doing
- a barista in a long apron leaning over a rolling cart, lifting a cupping bowl to their nose, eyes wide; a row of bowls, a gooseneck kettle, a cup stack and a jar of spoons on the cart top
- The asides, written in the margins
- SNIFF SNIFF YES! on the apron · tiny beans, big stories. at the lower left · GOOD COFFEE TALKS. at the right
- The line on the cart or wall
- COFFEE IS A CONVERSATION.
- The information block
- BLOOM COFFEE × SLOW LAB · Coffee Cupping Workshop · 2026.06.18 19:30 · No. 27 Garden Street, Shanghai
- The closing line and the credit
- Taste, Smell, Share, Slow Down · © 2026 BLOOM COFFEE. All Rights Reserved.
Before it runs
- A scene with an action in it. A person standing next to an object gives you a drawing with nothing to caption; a person doing something gives you the asides for free.
- Asides that are somebody talking, not a description. 'SNIFF SNIFF YES!' works because a person is thinking it; 'aromatic tasting session' is copy that wandered in.
- Information you are happy to see set plainly. The template will not disguise it as handwriting, because that is the thing that gives these posters away.
When to reach for it
Cafés, workshops, markets, launches, small collaborations — anything that should feel drawn rather than laid out. Templates in this style promise a loose hand-drawn poster and deliver a marker headline over technical-pen linework, with a script typeface at the foot doing an impression of the handwriting.
What changes
- One black-and-white poster: a hand-drawn scene, a heavy brush headline, and asides written into the margins.
- Exactly two drawing tools — one thick, one thin — so every hand-made mark on the sheet came from the same set.
- Asides written in the drawing's own hand: same slant, same wobble, same pressure as the linework beside them.
- The information block honestly typeset in one plain sans, with no font imitating a hand anywhere.
- Shading made of hatching rather than grey fills, so nothing on the sheet is a tone the pen could not make.
Pairs with
- Giant Hand Tiny People PosterA flat-cartoon poster where one enormous hand is the stage and tiny figures live in the palm — with the hand's anatomy and the size ratio both stated, because both go wrong quietly. Six fields.
- Neon Night Scene IllustrationA neon-lit night scene on near-black, where every light source is named with what it lights — so the colour lands on surfaces instead of floating as bright shapes. Five fields.
- Silhouette Landscape PosterA whole landscape built inside one silhouette on bare ground — with the container closed, so the shape still reads as itself from across a room. Five fields.