Sculptural Charcoal Editorial
Two flats, real charcoal grain, figures with weight.
PicX StudioImageAgent skill
- Guide
- 7 parts
- Tools
- 3
- Output
- Image
Skill ID charcoal-editorial
Example outputUnder the hood
What happens when you run it
You write a line. The agent does the rest — it studies this skill's guide, expands your idea into a full production brief, and runs the tools itself.
- Step 1
Reads the Sculptural Charcoal Editorial playbook
All 7 parts of the guide — Cap the tones at three, Build the figure by weight, not by feature and more.
- Step 2
Writes the full brief
Turns your one line into a detailed, in-style prompt — about as rich as the 80-word example.
- Step 3
Runs the right tools
Generate image, Edit image — chosen and called by the agent, not by you.
- Step 4
Delivers to your album
Your results land in Create, ready to edit, remix or animate.
About this skill
Sculptural editorial illustration — charcoal and conte grain, two or three flats, simplified figures with weight and silhouette. Use for magazine and article art, op-ed illustration, report covers, podcast art and any request for editorial illustration, charcoal, textured or New Yorker-style figure work.
What the guide covers
The 7-part playbook the agent reads before it generates.
- Cap the tones at three
- Build the figure by weight, not by feature
- Use one architectural frame
- Prompt recipe
- Parameters
- Gotchas
- Worked example
Starter prompt
80 wordsThe exact brief that produced the image above — the level of detail the agent writes for you from a single line.
Editorial illustration in charcoal and conte on warm cream paper. A woman in a black top and pale trousers sits reading on a commuter train seat, drawn as a simplified sculptural figure with heavy weight and clear silhouette, framed inside a tall rounded arch of flat cobalt blue. Behind her, dark textured charcoal silhouettes of standing passengers and blocky city buildings. Only three tones: cream paper, cobalt blue, charcoal black. Visible grain and dry-brush edges, no outline, no gradient shading.
