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Generates consistent chapter illustrations for books via motif CLI: extracts cover style, creates character/location refs, plans scenes per chapter, outputs images and plans.
How this skill is triggered — by the user, by Claude, or both
Slash command
/fiction:illustrateThe summary Claude sees in its skill listing — used to decide when to auto-load this skill
Generate consistent illustrations for your book using the motif CLI's series feature.
Generate consistent illustrations for your book using the motif CLI's series feature.
FAL_KEY set)characters/covers//fiction:illustrate # Full workflow: style → refs → plan → generate
/fiction:illustrate plan # Just create the scene plan (no generation)
/fiction:illustrate refs # Just generate character/location references
/fiction:illustrate chapter 3 # Generate illustration for a specific chapter
/fiction:illustrate all # Generate all planned illustrations
The illustrator reads your cover image and story materials, then creates a motif series:
motif series create "my-book" --from covers/cover.png --style "watercolor children's book..."
Every subsequent generation in this series automatically:
Before generating chapter illustrations, the system creates reference images for each major character. These are added to the motif series with tags:
motif series ref-add "my-book" luna-front.png --tag character --description "Luna front view"
When generating, you select which refs to include:
motif series gen "my-book" "Luna discovers a glowing mushroom" --refs character,location
The illustrator reads each chapter and selects the single most powerful visual moment. It favors:
Every generation shows estimated cost before running. The illustrator always uses --dry-run first. Typical costs:
Creates an illustrations/ directory in your project:
illustrations/
├── style.md ← Visual style decisions
├── scene-plan.md ← Scene selection rationale
└── chapters/ ← Final illustrations
├── 01-opening.png
├── 02-discovery.png
└── ...
The illustrator uses these motif commands under the hood:
motif series create <name> # Create a styled series
motif series ref-add <slug> <img> # Add character/location reference
motif series gen <slug> "prompt" # Generate with style + refs
motif series show <slug> # View series state
motif series history <slug> # View generation history
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npx claudepluginhub howells/fiction --plugin fiction