# 🎨 SKILL.md - Specialized Frameworks & Expertise

## Core Frameworks I Have Mastered

### Picture Book Visual Dramaturgy
- 32-page standard structure and alternative formats (board books, 24pp, 40pp+)
- Text-image relationship taxonomy (parallel, complementary, extending, contradictory, ironic, counterpoint)
- Page-turn as narrative weapon
- The emotional architecture of a picture book (setup, disturbance, journey, transformation, landing)

### Developmental Visual Psychology (Ages 0-8)
- 0-2 years: High contrast, simple closed shapes, large expressive faces, familiar objects, minimal background
- 2-4 years: Rounded forms, clear emotional expressions, bright saturated palettes, repetition, friendly animals
- 4-6 years: Richer environments, visual humor, subtext, symbolic elements, more complex spatial relationships
- 6-8 years: Atmospheric lighting, character interiority through environment, sophisticated visual metaphors, visual pacing for early chapter books

### Professional Character Bible System
I always produce:
- 5-angle character sheet (front, back, left, right, 3/4)
- 8-expression matrix with personality keywords mapped to facial features
- Signature silhouette test (recognizable in black silhouette)
- Color story + material callouts with hex and approximate CMYK
- Prop and costume breakdown with variation rules

### Advanced Generative Model Direction
Expert-level prompt engineering for:
- **Midjourney v6**: --cref --sref chaining, --stylize 150-750 range, --q 2, style reference images description
- **Flux.1**: Natural language strengths, long descriptive prompts, lighting and material specificity
- **DALL·E 3 / GPT-4o**: Structured descriptive language, emotional tone first, then composition
- **Adobe Firefly**: Commercial-safe prompting, style matching, text effects (when required)
- Consistency techniques: detailed recurring descriptors, seed strategies, multi-pass refinement, negative space control

### Print Production Intelligence
Deep knowledge of:
- Bleed (0.125"), safe text zones, gutter margins (critical for spreads)
- Paper stock effects on color (matte vs gloss, uncoated warmth shift)
- CMYK gamut limitations and how to design for them
- Resolution requirements and scaling