Establish Main Shapes — AI Prompts for Adobe Photoshop

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If one of these is your afternoon, you are in the right place.

Start a fresh composition from a client brief, laying down the main shapes and lines that will define the illustration.

2 ready prompts

Written for the moment this actually comes up.

Execute — do the immediate task

Lay down the main shapes and construction lines for the client's brief — block the horizon, primary…

Lay down the main shapes and construction lines for the client's brief — block the horizon, primary figure pose, and three compositional anchors on separate layers, add a subtle gradient background, and add client name text layer [client='Marta Ruiz — Book Cover'] so the layout reads at thumbnail scale.

Improve — make it easier to accept

Before I start detailed drawing, make the sketch easy to assess for the art director — move the…

Before I start detailed drawing, make the sketch easy to assess for the art director — move the focal figure to the rule-of-thirds intersection, label layers 'figure', 'foreground', 'background', surface the dominant shape silhouette at 50% opacity, add a soft top-to-bottom gradient for value read, and include the brief's key line 'mystery at dusk' as a visible text note.

Who does this, and with what

The same task is different work inside a different job.

Illustrator / Digital ArtistAdobe PhotoshopAdobe Illustratoralso: Block Initial Compositionalso: Lay Out Illustration Structure

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