Exaggerated Charcoal Animal Travel Portrait Prompt
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Exaggerated Charcoal Animal Travel Portrait Prompt A detailed prompt for transforming travel photos of animals into exaggerated charcoal portraits with a 3:4 vertical layout, preserving the original photo above and a stylized sketch below.
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Please create each of my uploaded travel photos into an independent, high-end design poster, one photo per output, no multi-image collage. Use a 3:4 vertical composition. The upper portion (about 45%-50% of the canvas) faithfully preserves the original photo: accurately maintain the animal's species, number, fur color and markings, posture, head direction, gaze, ear position, mouth state, any leash or accessories, and the original travel environment, natural lighting, spatial relationships, and color atmosphere. Only apply slight travel-journal and art-publication color grading, and add a subtle film grain. Do not illustrate over the original, do not replace the animal, change markings, move the subject, or regenerate the background. The lower portion, on warm off-white textured paper, reconstructs the same animal as an 'exaggerated charcoal travel expression' artwork. Do not redraw the full photo in proportion; instead, actively delete most of the background, and crop and enlarge the animal's head, ears, eyes, nose/mouth, fur direction, and a section of shoulder/neck to form a charcoal portrait with strong emotional tension. Keep the animal instantly recognizable, while moderately exaggerating the most expressive features based on the real expression - for example, enlarging alert eyes, elongating perked ears, strengthening the weight of a lowered head, highlighting an upturned nose/mouth, or wind-blown fur. The exaggeration should be sharp, humorous, and characterful, but not terrifyingly distorted; do not give the animal human facial features, and do not change the species or original emotion. Use thick charcoal, compressed charcoal sticks, black oil pastel, smudged graphite dust, broken contours, paper dust, eraser highlights, hair scratches, and rapid directional lines. Lines should be heavy, loose, and speedy; local areas may show repeated scribbling and natural smudges. Do not make it a fine realistic rendering, and do not merely apply a charcoal filter to the photo. The lower portion keeps only one to three location cues, such as stone wall smudges, road diagonal lines, distant mountain silhouettes, house color blocks, or sky strokes. The background must not be fully redrawn, and retain about 30%-45% continuous blank paper. Color is mainly black, gray, and paper white; extract only one or two most recognizable colors from the original photo as oil pastel or dry pastel accents - for example, green eyes, blue rope, yellow mucus, or ochre wall. Color serves only as emotional highlights, not filling the canvas. Based on the animal's real expression, distill a short, clear English emotion word as an oversized handwritten title, such as 'STARE', 'PROUD', 'PAUSE', 'ALERT'. Write the title directly with thick charcoal or oil pastel, with loose letterforms, smudges, and manual errors, still legible at chat-preview size. Also add a short field label, such as 'STREET NOTE 01' or 'TRAVEL NOTE 01', plus a 5-12 word English observation sentence. The observation sentence must describe the photo's truly visible gaze, action, environment, or color; do not invent locations or stories. Use small typewriter font, pencil script, or fine charcoal script for auxiliary text, but do not shrink it into unreadable gray lines. Overall mood: direct, sensitive, humorous, slightly odd - like an animal expression encountered on a trip, quickly and accurately captured in a charcoal sketchbook. Avoid: cute children's cartoon, anime animal, anthropomorphic human face, terrifying distortion, extra eyes or ears, changing fur color/markings, fine realistic rendering, smooth digital linework, full background redraw, full-color fill, transparent watercolor, photo charcoal filter, identical upper/lower cropping, repeated animals, unreadable tiny text, artist name, signature, brand, logo, URL, QR code, watermark, or gibberish.
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