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A wide cinnamon-brown earthenware crock sits left of centre on a cream tabletop, its oval opening showing pale bubbly starter.

Under the Starter Cloth

An exaggeratedly wide cinnamon-coloured crock holds bubbly sourdough starter beneath a folded-back cream cloth, with leaf shadows on the tabletop.

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Original size1248 × 1248
ShapeSquare
LicenceFree, commercial use
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Prompt

Finished editorial illustration, square 1:1. Oblique overhead view of one comically wide, squat earthenware crock with a tiny rounded base, placed left of centre on a plain cream tabletop. Its oversized oval mouth reveals pale sourdough starter, gently domed with several large irregular bubbles and shallow craters. A small cream cloth rests folded back over the rear rim, exposing the surface without hands. Cinnamon-brown pottery, cream starter, dark warm-brown accents. Loose hand-drawn marker contours and broad simple colour fills, with soft mezzotint-inspired granular shading in a few large tonal areas; no intricate hatching or fine stippling. Gentle light projects two or three broad leaf-shaped shadows across the tabletop, away from the focal surface. Playful asymmetric silhouette, quiet arrangement, generous empty space above and right. Legible at thumbnail size. Not a diagram or cutaway. No people, text, logos or watermarks.

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