Generated September 19, 2026 using the built-in image generation tool. Every file is a 1536 x 1024 PNG. These are editorial illustrations, not photographs of Vadim's home, horses or property, and not product screenshots. Keep originals; optimize web derivatives during implementation.
Prompt:
Use case: stylized-concept. Asset type: original abstract artwork for a personal software engineer website, dark and technical with soul. Create a refined landscape 3:2 fine-art digital pond study viewed directly from above. Two small abstract copper goldfish arc through near-black charcoal water in the right-center, creating delicate concentric ripples and flowing contour-line interference patterns. The goldfish should be subtle elegant painterly silhouettes, not cartoon characters, no realistic eye details. Palette warm charcoal #151615, very restrained muted copper #d99a71 and soft stone gray. Fine analog grain and graphite-like line detail give the surface tactile life. Composition spacious and asymmetric: all edges fade seamlessly into almost uniform charcoal, especially ample negative space along left third. Quiet Japanese print sensibility meeting scientific field visualization, sophisticated editorial art, gently luminous copper lines but NO neon, no sci-fi glow, no purple or blue, no grid, no panels, no typography, no UI, no labels or numbers, no logos, no watermark. This is illustrative art inspired by a backyard pond, not a photograph of anyone's actual property. Make the ripples visible and graceful at website scale, with enough contrast and definition to read on a dark screen.
Superseded as the featured background by gypsy-vanner-study.png (see below), but kept as the fallback source.
Prompt:
Use case: illustration-story. Asset type: original editorial illustration for a software engineer personal website, featured project about software for horse businesses. Landscape 3:2 composition. A single elegant horse, side profile, head relaxed, rendered in warm pale graphite and copper charcoal-pencil strokes on deep warm charcoal #151615 paper. In the lower foreground a few spare field grass strokes and loose organic contour lines, subtle suggestion of a paddock fence receding into shadow, no people or equipment. The horse has real anatomical grace but is clearly an illustration, not a photograph. It occupies the center-right and dissolves slightly at the hooves into abstract paper texture. Refined contemporary printmaking with meticulous pencil detail in face and mane, broad expressive charcoal body shading, very limited warm off-white #edeae2 and muted copper #d99a71 highlights. The atmosphere is thoughtful and grounded, a connection between craft and the real physical world, no cute cartoon mascot, no tech circuitry, no robot, no magical effects. Spacious negative space, all four edges blend to the dark charcoal background, no frame, no text, no logos, no watermark, no product UI, no labels. Distinctive high quality editorial artwork.
Source: public/images/gypsy-vanner-study.png (1536 × 1024), generated with the built-in image tool using the two user-supplied horse photographs as identity references and equestrian-study.png as a style reference. Original generation: exec-9598fe26-f8b9-4c54-8987-62aed9ceb783.png. The old illustration is retained. Reference photographs are not copied into the website or published.
Pipeline: scripts/prepare-assets.mjs prefers this file and falls back to equestrian-study.png when it is absent. Both feed the same equestrian-* derivatives; public/images/derived/sources.json records which source produced them and forces a rebuild when the choice changes, so npm run assets is the only step needed. Both PNGs are pruned from the published output by the prune-source-artwork integration.
The new drawing depicts the user's dark Gypsy Vanner with a compact, powerful build, black mane and tail, feathered legs, small forehead marking, and light hind feathering. This is an AI-generated illustration inspired by the references, not a photograph or exact anatomical record. The horse sits to the left, leaving quiet space for section copy on the right.
Generation prompt:
Create a new landscape 1536x1024 editorial illustration for the background of a personal website. Reference images 1 and 2 show the user's DARK GYPSY VANNER horse: preserve this breed and individual appearance: solid dark bay almost black coat, compact powerful cob build, deep barrel, broad neck, short strong legs with abundant feathering, thick flowing BLACK mane and tail, small white forehead marking, dark front feathering and cream-white hind feathering as visible in image 1. NOT a chestnut thoroughbred, not piebald, not a slim generic sport horse. Reference 3 is STYLE ONLY: sensitive charcoal drawing, subtle fine copper etching accents on warm black textured paper #151615. Depict horse alone, no people, no rider, no tack, in quiet three-quarter side view facing slightly left, all four hooves fully in frame. Position complete horse in LEFT 52 percent of wide composition, softly lit so dark body reads against background, enough delicate warm highlights to see head, feathering, mane, but coat remains distinctly black/dark bay, not copper-colored. Right 40 percent must be nearly empty warm charcoal negative space for website text. Minimal ground grasses, distant suggestion of fence, edges fade naturally into charcoal. Calm dignified individual presence, rich hand-rendered detail, artful and restrained. No text, logos, watermarks, panels, border, interface, extra horses. This is a new stylized horse illustration using photos as identity references, not a photo edit.
LinkedIn copy check (2026-09-19): https://www.linkedin.com/in/vshchepotev/ was initially limited to indexed public content; the browser session subsequently made the profile accessible. Its visible headline lists Staff Software Engineer at Applied Materials and Co-Founder & CTO at Carrot On The Horse. The About section describes hands-on engineering, production AI tools, structuring real-world information, and measuring practical usefulness. Only this professional context informs the site; private account analytics and other account details are excluded.