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A Moth on a Ladder Swapping the Bulb in a Street Lantern
Deep ink blue with cream and burnt orange, and a woolly moth doing a repair job in earnest.
✍️ The transparent background is written as alpha zero, with an explicit "not white, not coloured, no checkerboard"; all three negatives plug the fake transparency GPT image models often produce. The gouache's ragged edges and dry-brush breaks are what make this moth usable as a sticker.
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Paint it as opaque gouache: bold, cutout-friendly shapes with soft blotchy hand-painted edges, uneven pigment weight, dry-brush breaks along the outer contours, and a subtle paper-grain texture that lives only inside the painted shapes. Colours: deep ink-blue, warm cream and burnt orange, with a single small muted teal accent on the lantern's glass panes. Characters keep compact, original proportions throughout.
Subject: a woolly moth, compact rounded body, four soft rounded wings, two feathered antennae, standing on the top rung of a short wooden step ladder as it swaps the flame-shaped bulb in a miniature street lantern. One foreleg raises a small cream-and-orange flame-shaped bulb halfway toward the lantern's open socket; another foreleg holds open the little door of the glass case. The moth looks practical and absorbed in the job, not grinning.
Layout: moth, ladder and lantern form one compact, connected silhouette, centred in a 1:1 square. Everything painted sits wholly inside the frame with clear margin on every side; nothing touches or is clipped by an edge. The ladder legs and lantern base meet an implied ground only through a soft, semi-transparent grey shadow in the alpha channel, darkest at each contact point and fading outward. Paint no floor, ground plane or room: the background is fully transparent, alpha zero everywhere, not white and not coloured, a true alpha channel with no checkerboard.
The lantern is plain painted metal and glass with no plaque, number or markings, the ladder plain unmarked wood; no lettering, numbers, logos or text of any kind anywhere in the image.
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