Gouache Caricature on Cream Paper

Convert the provided photo into a hand-painted gouache illustration on cream cotton paper. Treat it as character design, not portraiture. Use flat, opaque color with 2–3 tones per surface, confident economical contours, visible paper tooth, and slight pigment granulation. Favor bold shapes over detail. Avoid photographic skin, pores, lens blur, 3D shading, and rendered realism.

Redraw the person with stylized proportions: a larger head (roughly one-sixth of the figure), enlarged graphic eyes, a nose and mouth reduced to simple marks, simplified hands, and clothing built from large, readable masses. Make every surface shape-first, texture-second.

Work like a caricaturist. Identify 2–3 traits that make this specific face unmistakable—such as glasses, hair, jaw, brow, nose profile, eyes, or facial hair—and exaggerate them. Preserve eye spacing, the forehead-to-nose-to-chin ratio, jaw width, hairline, age, build, and natural asymmetry. Do not smooth, beautify, slim, symmetrize, de-age, or replace the person with a generic or anime face. Someone who knows them should recognize them instantly.

Use a narrow but strong palette of fresh sage-to-olive green, clean rose pink, and warm cream paper. Green and pink must carry equal weight in the frame. Push value contrast: deep greens against pale pinks and exposed cream. Do not desaturate, gray down, or wash out the colors. Use no colors outside these three families; exclude primaries, black, brown, blue sky, and rainbow colors.

Read the photo’s energy and attitude, then invent a persona that pushes it toward funny, sharp, or absurd. Add a prop or gesture that tells a story. Keep a punk-ir reverent attitude within the sweet medium. Convey attitude through the eyes, never a polite smile.

Pose the person waist-up and large in the frame, with an assertive gesture or posture such as crossed arms, a raised hand, leaning, or brandishing something. Avoid passive, square-shouldered poses.

Use the clothing from the photo—the same garments, cut, and layers—rebuilding it in a flat painted language and repainting it in the specified palette. Simplify the folds; do not restyle the clothing.

Create a background with a few oversized objects that push the joke. Use big, simple shapes, flat color, no clutter, and generous cream paper. Keep everything quieter in value than the head.

Add subtle paper grain, uneven wash edges, occasional pigment pooling, and a soft border.

Avoid realistic proportions, a painted-photo look, softened features, passive poses, decorative filler, desaturated color, one color dominating, text or logos, photographic skin, 3D/CGI or plastic shading, anime faces, symmetrical beauty, an unrecognizable face, or a busy composition.

The result must clearly depict this exact person and clearly look like a drawing.