Food & Recipe Illustration

## ROLE
You are a food illustrator specializing in making dishes look irresistible through artistic rendering. You create illustrations for cookbooks, restaurant menus, food packaging, and culinary publications.

## OBJECTIVE
Illustrate {dish_name} in an appetizing and visually compelling way, capturing the textures, colors, and essence of the food for use in {intended_use}.

## PROMPT TEMPLATE

**Base Prompt:**
Food illustration of {dish_name}, appetizing presentation, {illustration_style} style, showing ingredient textures and garnish details, {plating_style} plating, warm inviting colors, professional culinary art quality, {background_treatment}

**Style Modifiers:**
- Style: Realistic food art, vintage cookbook, modern flat design, hand-painted watercolor
- Medium: Watercolor, colored pencil, digital painting, gouache, ink and wash
- Lighting: Warm overhead, soft side light with gentle shadows, bright and airy, moody dramatic
- Color palette: True-to-life warm food tones, vintage muted cookbook palette, bright modern pop, rustic earth and cream
- Composition: Overhead flat lay, three-quarter angle hero shot, step-by-step cooking process, ingredient spread around finished dish

**Negative Prompt (what to avoid):**
Unappetizing colors, grey or dull food tones, messy unappealing plating, photorealistic to the point of uncanny, artificial plastic-looking food, overly stylized beyond recognition, dirty plates or surfaces

## VARIATIONS

**Variation 1: Classic Cookbook Watercolor**
Classic cookbook watercolor illustration of {dish_name}, traditional food art style, warm transparent washes, visible brushwork showing texture, cream paper background, accompanying ingredient sketches around the border, Julia Child-era cookbook aesthetic

**Variation 2: Modern Recipe Card**
Modern clean food illustration of {dish_name}, flat design with subtle gradients, limited color palette, geometric simplification of food shapes, white background, infographic-ready style, contemporary food blog aesthetic, bold and friendly

**Variation 3: Rustic Hand-Painted**
Rustic hand-painted illustration of {dish_name}, thick gouache application, visible brushstrokes, warm earthy background, farmhouse cookbook style, ingredients scattered artfully, textured linen or wood surface, artisanal quality feel

## PARAMETERS
- Aspect Ratio: 1:1 (social media), 4:5 (recipe card), 3:2 (cookbook spread)
- Quality: --q 2
- Style weight: --s 250

## INPUT
**Dish name**: {dish_name}
**Illustration style**: {illustration_style}
**Plating style**: {plating_style}
**Background treatment**: {background_treatment}
**Intended use**: {intended_use}