Blog & Article Illustrations
A blog with a house illustration style reads as a publication; a blog with stock photos reads as content marketing. The difficulty is throughput — you need a fresh image every post, on a topic nobody drew before, without your archive turning into a patchwork of whatever was available that week.
Lock a house style once: generate two or three candidate treatments, pick one, and keep that project as your style reference forever. Every subsequent post expands the same project, so the model matches your established palette and line weight instead of starting cold. For inline diagrams, generate the scene and then adjust labels in the vector studio — text you can edit beats text baked into a raster image.
Publishing specs
| Header ratio | 16:9 renders cleanly in most CMS layouts; 1200×630 PNG covers Open Graph previews |
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| Social preview | Export a PNG for og:image — most social crawlers will not render SVG |
| Inline art | 4:3 or 1:1, sized to the content column width, SVG so it stays sharp when readers zoom |
| Alt text | Describe what the illustration shows, not that it is an illustration — it is indexed content |
Styles that fit
Each of these presets is tuned for full-scene illustration, not icon glyphs. Pick one to open the generator with it already selected — suggested canvas for this job is 16:9.
Example prompts
Describe the whole set in one prompt — generating the scenes together is what keeps them looking like one family.
How the illustration flow works
- 1
Pick the job
Open the Illustrations tab in the generator and choose the use case — blog & article illustrations maps to a tuned prompt template rather than a blank box.
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Describe the scene
Give the product context and, optionally, the specific scene. Suggestions appear as you type, and you can attach up to three of your own illustrations as style references.
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Review before you commit
Generation returns a preview first. Keep the ones that work, generate more into the same batch, and only then import — credits are spent on generation, not on browsing.
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Vectorize and refine
Accepted scenes are traced to real SVG paths and land in a project. Open any one in the studio to clean nodes, recolor fills, or simplify paths.
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Expand later, still matching
When you need scene number nine, expand the same project. Your existing illustrations become the style reference, so the new ones match instead of drifting.
Frequently asked questions
How do I keep a blog visual style consistent across dozens of posts?+
Keep one project as the canonical style source and expand it for every new post rather than generating fresh each time. Icora feeds your existing artwork back as a style reference, so post fifty still matches post one.
SVG or PNG for blog images?+
Use SVG in the article body — it is smaller and stays sharp at any zoom. Export PNG for og:image and Twitter cards, since most social crawlers do not render SVG previews.
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Make your blog & article illustrations
Describe the scenes, pick a style, and get a matched set as editable SVG. Free to start, no credit card required.
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