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An artistic prompt for converting a reference photo into a high-end black and white charcoal and pencil sketch, featuring a reading scene with smoke effects.

Prompt

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Use the uploaded photo as the only identity reference for this person.

Convert this person into a {argument name="style" default="high-end black and white artistic portrait"}: sitting comfortably, {argument name="activity" default="reading an open book"} while holding a {argument name="object" default="small coffee cup"} in one hand.

Preserve identity features:
Maintain the person's recognizable facial structure, eyes, eyebrows, nose, lips, jawline, skin features, hairstyle, hair texture, and overall likeness, faithful to the uploaded reference photo.

Pose:
The person sits in a relaxed, elegant posture, naturally looking down at the open book while reading. One hand gently holds a ceramic coffee cup, and the other hand supports or holds the open book. The pose should be natural, quiet, and unposed.

Clothing:
Retain the person's clothing from the reference photo where appropriate, showing realistic fabric textures and natural folds. The overall outfit should be sophisticated and understated.

Artistic Style:
Transform the entire scene into a fine monochrome pencil and charcoal sketch, combined with a realistic editorial portrait photography style.

Use extremely fine graphite pencil lines, delicate cross-hatching, realistic charcoal shading, fine paper texture, subtle ink strokes, hand-drawn edges, and soft tonal transitions.

Smoke Effect:
The person is surrounded by gracefully flowing charcoal smoke, graphite dust, fine sketch particles, and ink lines. The smoke should naturally emerge around the person's hair, shoulders, arms, clothing, book, and lower body, gradually fading into the white background.

Coffee Cup:
The ceramic coffee cup must be clearly identifiable in the person's hand, rendered entirely with realistic pencil and charcoal shading.

Book:
The open book must be clearly visible and detailed, with realistic pages and a subtle handwritten-like page texture. Do not add readable text or logos to the pages.

Background:
Clean white or warm white textured paper background. Minimalist composition, with the person emerging from the surrounding smoky sketch art.

Color:
Strictly black and white and soft gray monochrome. No color at all.

Lighting:
Soft cinematic portrait lighting translated into monochrome tones, with rich highlight details on the face and natural shadows.

Quality:
Ultra-fine, realistic body structure, highly detailed hair strands, realistic hands and fingers, detailed clothing, realistic ceramic cup and book, professional gallery-grade pencil and charcoal sketch.

Composition:
Centered portrait, showing the person, coffee cup, and book completely. The head, hair, hands, cup, book, and body are all within the frame. Leave plenty of clean white space around the edges of the smoky art.

Important:
The uploaded image is for identity reference only.
Preserve the person's identity and likeness.
Do not replace the face.
Do not add text, logos, watermarks, borders, or picture-in-picture frames.
Do not make a collage.
Do not make it in color.
Do not make it cartoonish or 3D.
Do not crop the coffee cup or book.
The final result should look like a realistic photo transformed into a sophisticated black and white pencil and charcoal masterpiece.

Aspect Ratio: 4:5
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Create a 1:1 square, ultra-realistic overhead photograph based on the uploaded selfie. The selfie is the sole reference for the person's identity. Preserve the same recognizable adult face, natural facial proportions, skin tone, hairstyle, original expression, visible clothing (including existing prints), and accessories. Naturally complete any unseen trousers and shoes to match the original outfit.

CAMERA & ENVIRONMENT
Position the camera almost directly above the person, looking vertically downward. The setting is a clean, spacious, light-colored indoor stone floor or outdoor paved surface that matches the aesthetic of the original selfie. Use large paving slabs with only 2–3 thin, widely spaced seams across the entire frame. Each slab should be approximately twice the height of the miniature full-body figure. Keep the stone texture subtle and refined, with no props, plants, or clutter. A distant wall base may appear along the top edge.

COMPOSITION & PROPORTIONS
Only one person stands slightly below the center of the frame, fully visible from head to toe. The entire figure occupies just 40% of the image height, leaving extensive empty floor space above the head and on both sides.

Use extreme wide-angle forced perspective to create an enormous, realistic head and a miniature body. The head, from crown to chin, occupies 75% of the figure's total silhouette height. The shoulder width is only 50% of the head width. Below the head, create an extremely short, narrow torso, miniature arms, perspective-compressed short legs, and two tiny shoes placed close together.

The head and body must connect seamlessly. Both arms hang naturally close to the sides. The person tilts their head upward and looks directly toward the elevated camera. Preserve realistic facial anatomy, natural skin texture, and lifelike eyes. Absolutely no cartoon styling or collage effects.

LIGHTING & REALISM
Use natural lighting, realistic individual hair strands, authentic fabric textures, finely detailed stone surfaces, physically accurate contact shadows, and subtle film grain. The final image must look like a genuine photograph captured with a real camera.

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