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The problem
Ask a model for an article illustration and it draws the noun in the headline. The picture is competent, and the piece says nothing.
The decision
Put the skill’s weight on finding the abstraction, then compose it from a fixed set of verbs under a hard budget — seven objects, four colours, no text, legible at 160px. It refuses to draw what it cannot say in seven marks.
10 illustrations
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