Guizang Material Illustration
Turn articles, screenshots, data and concepts into Guizang-style material illustrations with Chinese labels that actually explain.
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Introduction
Guizang Material Illustration is an illustration Skill for Claude Code / Codex and other Agent environments. It turns articles, notes, chart screenshots, product concepts, work reports, teaching materials and humanities topics into Guizang-style material illustrations with Chinese labels.
It solves the "middle image" problem: social cards, PPT decks, articles and docs often need one central image that explains the meaning — not a pretty but unreadable decoration. The Skill focuses on three things:
- Explainer images: draw abstract concepts, flows, mechanisms and system relationships as labeled diagrams
- Chart beautification: extract semantics from screenshots or raw data and regenerate them as material-style charts built for sharing
- Reference-assisted generation: for niche concepts, brands, models, scientific instruments or historical objects, gather references first, then render everything in the unified Guizang material style
Key features:
- Text inside images: short labels, arrows, legends and data callouts are generated directly in the image
- Material 3D diagrams: restrained Swiss editorial composition, soft 3D materials, clear spatial relationships and a few accent colors
- Chart semantic redraw: keeps only chart type, title, data, axes, units, error bars and conclusions — never traces the original layout
- Reference search: model logos, technical terms, historical objects and scientific devices get facts first, style second
- Education & humanities friendly: primary science, physics, biology mechanisms, historical routes, literary imagery and sociology concepts all work
- Extensible theme colors: default IKB blue, plus lemon yellow, lemon green, safety orange, graphite black and more
- QA first: Chinese labels, data, cropping, reference accuracy and readability at card sizes are checked before delivery
Supported diagram types: concept breakdowns, flows, loops, comparisons, hierarchy/architecture, scene explainers, scientific mechanisms, humanities imagery, plus material-style charts (bar, line, Gantt, Sankey, heatmap, funnel and more).
Use Cases
- Article & WeChat illustrations: split a long article into 1-4 core concepts, one labeled image each
- Product / technical explainers: gather references first, then flow, hierarchy or system diagrams
- Work reports: quadrant or flow images built from progress, risks, decisions and next steps
- Chart beautification: give a poor chart screenshot a dignified material skin without touching the data
- Teaching materials: e.g. a lever diagram labeling fulcrum, effort, load and arm for a primary science lesson
- Social card center art: generate the central image first, then let the Social Card Skill handle a 3:4 Xiaohongshu layout
Usage
- Install: run
npx skills add https://github.com/op7418/guizang-material-illustration --skill guizang-material-illustration, or clone it manually into~/.claude/skills/guizang-material-illustration(same for Codex) - Trigger: just say "Use the Guizang material illustration skill to turn this product note into a labeled diagram", or "Make an explainer image with text", "Beautify this chart", "Search references first for this niche concept"
- Provide material: hand over the article, screenshot, data or notes — the Skill reads the material, picks the diagram type, compresses copy, writes prompts and generates images
- Pair with social cards: generate the center image first, then pass it to
guizang-social-card-skillfor titles, copy, theme colors and 3:4 / 1:1 / 21:9 exports
Internal workflow: understand material → pick diagram type internally → gather references if needed → compress copy → write prompts → generate → QA and regenerate → deliver assets.
Project: op7418/guizang-material-illustration