Bada Shanren Lotus Rock (Style-Only, Image-Conditioned)
Style register: Bada Shanren's sparse lotus stems and eccentric rocks, a few isolated forms in unstable balance against unmarked paper.

The prompt
Re-render this image as a spare Qing-dynasty ink study in the visual register of Bada Shanren's lotus and rock paintings. Preserve the exact existing subject and placement, using the tension of a bent lotus stem against an angular stone only as a model for brush behavior; add neither plant nor stone unless already present. Make one or two recognizable contours carry the weight of the entire image. Draw them with a pointed brush charged unevenly with ink: a swollen dark beginning, a long thin turn, then an abrupt dry ending that exposes xuan paper texture. Set broad, damp gray passages beside a nearly black contour, with fine pools where brush pressure pauses. Leave generous unpainted ivory around the source forms and keep secondary details delicately abbreviated rather than replaced. A small tilted shape may feel almost precarious, but its orientation follows the original image, never an invented composition. Limit the palette to charred black, translucent warm gray, and paper cream. Avoid ornamental framing or pictorial fillers; the strange intimacy comes from the distance between forms and the open sheet. Maintain enough decisive contrast for the source to read clearly at small size, even where the treatment is austere. Leave a calm, uncluttered band of negative space along the top or bottom edge where a title could sit. Strictly no on-canvas text, no legible lettering, no signature, no watermark, no logos. Preserve the subject, pose, and composition of the source image exactly, change only the medium and rendering. Aspect ratio matches source.
What it is doing
A sparse arrangement can carry enormous emotional pressure. Instead of explaining isolation through narrative, the paper keeps two shapes apart long enough for that distance to become palpable.
Tuning knobs
- Density: `two isolated ink masses` (signature) vs `one dominant mass` vs `several small masses`
- Line: `uneven swollen contour` (signature) vs `fine continuous trace` vs `short fractured marks`
- Paper: `large untouched ivory field` (signature) vs `thin gray haze` vs `soft mottled wash`
- Balance: `tense asymmetric spacing` (signature) vs `stable symmetry` vs `near-edge emphasis`
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