Ian Xiaohei Chinese Article Illustrations
Plans and generates hand-drawn, whimsical white-background Chinese illustrations for articles using the Xiaohei character.
- Repository
- helloianneo/ian-xiaohei-illustrations
- Stars
- 13,036
- Licence
- MIT
- Files
- 7 files
What it does
When installed, the agent plans where a Chinese article needs illustrations, picks the key ideas to visualize, and proposes a short shot list. When asked to generate, it creates one 16:9 black line-drawing image per key point on a clean white background, with a small black Xiaohei character doing the central action and sparse red, orange, or blue handwritten Chinese annotations. It also checks images against a quality checklist and suggests regenerating when the character is decorative, the image is cluttered, or text has errors.
Great for
- Chinese-language writers who want a consistent hand-drawn style for blog posts, Notion docs, or methodology articles
- Content teams producing a few explanatory illustrations per long article
- Anyone wanting a shot list of where images would help before making them
Skip it if
- Commercial illustration, PPT-style infographics, or cute cartoon work, which the skill explicitly avoids
- Non-Chinese content, since the style rules and annotations are built around Chinese text
- Users who need precise, error-free text in images, because the skill itself flags Chinese text errors as a common generation problem
Try asking
- “分析这篇文章哪些地方需要配图，给我一个 shot list”
- “为这段方法论生成一张小黑怪诞配图”
- “把这篇 Notion 工作流文档做成 4 张正文插图并保存到 assets 目录”
- “检查这张图是否太满、小黑是否只是装饰，并给出重生成建议”
Install in 3 steps
- 1
Download the skill
The ZIP contains the 7 original files, the MIT licence and an attribution note.
ian-xiaohei-illustrations.zip - 2
Add it to your agent
Claude Code (all projects)
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && unzip ian-xiaohei-illustrations.zip -d ~/.claude/skills/Claude Code / Agent SDK (this project only)
mkdir -p .claude/skills && unzip ian-xiaohei-illustrations.zip -d .claude/skills/Claude apps (web/desktop): Settings → Capabilities → Skills → Upload skill, and choose the ZIP.
- 3
Ask for the task
No special command needed — the agent reads the skill's description and loads it when your request matches. Try one of the prompts above.
Get better results
- Give the full article or a clear section so the agent can pick genuine cognitive anchor points rather than spacing images evenly.
- Ask for a shot list first, then approve individual images to generate, to keep the article from becoming an illustration book.
- Review generated Chinese text in each image yourself, since small typos are a known risk for image generation.
What's inside
- agents/openai.yaml
- references/composition-patterns.md
- references/prompt-template.md
- references/qa-checklist.md
- references/style-dna.md
- references/xiaohei-ip.md
- SKILL.md
Redistributed unmodified from helloianneo/ian-xiaohei-illustrations under the MIT licence. The assessment was drafted with AI from the skill's files on 2026-10-29. Skills can instruct your agent to run code — read SKILL.md and any scripts before installing.