Architectural Landscape Competition Collage

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Inputs

Reference_photo (image) · Required

Outputs

Architectural_landscape_collage (image)

Using the provided photo as reference, create an eye-level architectural landscape collage in the style of a classic architecture-school mixed-media competition board. Combine digital photo collage with precise fine-line drawing. Use a breakout composition with an open, borderless feel and a large, pure-white canvas. Use carefully extracted, high-resolution photographic elements, leaving deliberate white space around the edges and adding refined vertical geometric construction lines through the open areas to emphasize the drawing’s geometric composition.

Set the scene in soft, overcast, diffuse natural light, without harsh shadows. Keep the overall mood poetic and quiet, with a subtle surreal collage quality. Use a predominantly white background with natural wood tones and earth-toned paving. Keep the image clean and airy. Use subdued natural greens and autumnal yellow-browns for plants, with no vivid accent colors. Render water in pale gray-blue with realistic reflections. Use deep black and dark gray for silhouetted pedestrians, flying birds, and geometric guide lines to create layered contrast.

Give the plants and supporting scenery a dramatic quality: realistic cutout foliage should grow beyond the rectangular frame, accompanied by realistic side-profile and back-view pedestrian silhouettes. Include a large flock of birds breaking through the image boundaries. Add abstract minimalist line arrays in the sky to create an artistic narrative. Use a lightly aged, warm ivory paper texture beneath the sky. Arrange multiple low-saturation pastel hot-air balloons in the sky, using pink-orange, pale mint blue, dark green, and beige-brown. Add soft, pale warm-orange circular halos resembling hazy clouds.

Use a consistent, lightly pigmented, hand-painted wash with translucent watercolor shading, a low-saturation, soft Morandi palette, and an overall pale ivory, low-contrast tone. Keep the natural light soft and even, with no hard shadows. The image should feel like a flat, layered collage illustration in the style of Sasaki International landscape competition boards, with subtle paper grain, abundant white space, a clean and elegant Chinese-inspired atmosphere, and an entirely hand-drawn collage-board design.

Avoid: realistic photography, photorealistic 3D rendering, harsh shadows, glaring light, highly saturated or vivid colors, glass reflections, metallic highlights, distorted perspective, added, removed, or misaligned objects, cartoon or anime style, heavy oil-paint texture, lack of white space, missing geometric construction lines, missing breakout plants or birds, missing paper grain, dimensional photorealistic lighting, dark or dirty-looking imagery, malformed people, or clutter and unnecessary objects.