Get the skill
Install it for Claude Code with the skills CLI:
npx skills add bumicodes/draw-beautiful -g -a claude-code
No API keys and nothing to npm install. It needs Node 20.10 or later. The source and more ways to install are on GitHub.
Prompts to try
Describe the thing, where it stands and what moves. The skill picks the size, the light and the line systems.
/draw-beautiful a brass pocket watch lying open on a velvet cloth, the second hand ticking/draw-beautiful a stone well in a village square, its shadow turning through the afternoon/draw-beautiful a nautilus shell cut in half to show its chambers, lit from the upper left/draw-beautiful the Eiffel Tower from the Champ de Mars, the sun crossing a summer sky/draw-beautiful a steam locomotive on a viaduct, its wheels turning, as a bank-note vignette
Or give it a photo, drawing or postcard. It fits the camera and proportions to the image, then engraves the model.
/draw-beautiful engrave this photo of my grandparents' house ~/Pictures/house.jpg/draw-beautiful ./refs/bridge-1905.png the old bridge as an engraving, keep the photo's camera and light
Examples
The garden sundialA horizontal dial on a turned stone pedestal. The gnomon’s shadow lands on the hour the model says.
The orreryMercury, Venus, Earth and its Moon, and Mars on a brass drum, going round at their real periods.
Torre di PisaThe Leaning Tower at its real proportions and 3.97° lean, its shadow crossing the lawn.
Hibiscus rosa-sinensisAn organic vignette in two inks: ruffled petals, serrated leaves, and a lamp you can swing.
The tidelineShells on wind-rippled sand in sepia, and a teal sea whose waves roll in, break and run up the wet sand.
Mount Fuji in springThe cone from Lake Kawaguchi in April, mirrored in the water, with a pagoda and cherry trees in bloom on the near shore.
Taj MahalThe tomb at its real proportions, seen in perspective from the end of its canal, its reflection ray-cast in the water.
Nautilus pompiliusA chambered nautilus sawn in half on a guilloche medallion: every chamber, septum and pearly wall lit by one lamp.
The great waveA towering breaker after Hokusai, its lip curling over a deep cross-hatched trough, with a small Fuji on the far sea.
The light on the rockA night plate: a lighthouse on a crag under a crescent moon, its turning beams cutting bright wedges through every line.
Horologium astronomicumAn orloj face in blue and gilt: the star map turns with the sidereal day and the moon ball shows its true phase.
Dactylioceras communeA ribbed ammonite standing proud of a limestone block, under a low light that rakes across it.
The ColosseumThe amphitheatre as it stands, from the west on 21 April: the north wall’s four storeys, the broken rings to the south and the open hypogeum.