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Hand-Painted Korean Cinema Billboard
Create a photographed, hand-painted Korean cinema billboard starring the people and animals in a reference photo, with intentionally imperfect 1990s–2000s sign-painting realism.
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- Text
- Inputs
- Reference_photo (image) · Required
- Outputs
- Billboard_image (image)
TASK {
Create ONE image: a real photograph of a physical, hand-painted old Korean cinema movie billboard (극장 손그림 간판) starring the person(s) from the uploaded photo as the lead(s).
The photo is taken straight-on in natural daylight; the billboard fills almost the entire frame, with only a thin strip of its metal frame visible at the edges.
No theater building, no entrance, no street, no sky visible.
This is a new image generation task, not an edit of the uploaded photo.
}
INPUT {
The uploaded image is a face photo only. Use it ONLY as a loose reference for the face, as described in FACE_RULES.
Count every person and animal in the photo; all of them appear on the billboard as main cast, each in the same painted style.
Ignore the photo's background, clothes, pose, camera angle, lighting and framing completely.
}
ANALYSIS {
Decide everything below yourself from my conversation history / what you know about me and the impression of the photo.
- The movie I would star in: genre, Korean title, one-line Korean tagline, a short Korean genre label
- My character's costume and hairstyle, fitting the movie and my apparent gender and age vibe
- Whether supporting characters appear, and who they are (fully fictional, resembling no real actor)
- The billboard's layout and colors within the BILLBOARD and PAINT_STYLE rules
- A fictional stage name for my lead credit (MUST NOT be my real name, nickname or user ID)
Do not explain the analysis in chat. Output only the image.
}
BILLBOARD {
A long horizontal board made of joined painted panels inside a metal frame.
Picture area: the cast as huge faces and busts, large and close, overlapping, over a simple light background of flat or softly blended color.
Text area: a separate painted band for the tagline, and a separate painted panel with the big title; the small genre label and small cast names placed beside them.
No small full-body figures, no detailed landscapes, no scattered props.
}
PAINT_STYLE {
Attempted-realism portrait painting by a working billboard craftsman of the 1990s–2000s: he tries to paint the stars realistically, but the result is stiff, slightly uncanny, with proportions a little wrong.
Skin: smooth, airbrush-like blended gradients with warm orange-red flesh tones, rosy nose and cheeks, a slightly waxy shine.
Features: painted with heavy dark contours around the eyes and mouth, stiff and a bit too intense.
Hair: smooth painted masses with broad simple highlights.
Clothes: simplified painted shapes.
Expressions: big and exaggerated, decided by the genre and drawn fresh by this prompt.
Head angle, face direction and gaze are decided by the layout, drawn fresh by this prompt.
Palette: bright and light overall, sign-paint colors. Avoid dark backgrounds, deep shadows and moody contrast.
This must NOT look like a digital illustration, anime, manhwa, romance novel cover or modern poster art.
}
HAND_PAINTED_PROOF {
The image must clearly show this is real paint on a real board, photographed:
- visible brush marks and streaky blending inside large color areas
- uneven hand-cut edges where colors meet, small drips and touch-up patches
- slight paint thickness catching the daylight
- faint pencil guide lines near some letters
- vertical panel seams with screw heads, sun-faded colors, dust, small chips at the edges
}
FACE_RULES {
The painter tried to copy the face from a small photo and missed: it is his stiff attempted-realism version, not the real face.
- KEEP ONLY: the single most distinctive trait of the face and the overall impression / vibe.
- MISS: face length and width, eye size and spacing, nose length and mouth size are all clearly off from the photo, in the painter's stiff way.
- RESULT: at a glance it looks like someone else; only on a second look do people who know the person say "wait... is that you?" and burst out laughing.
NEVER trace, paste or closely copy the face from the photo.
Do NOT take from the photo: face outline, jaw shape, skin, skin texture, hair, hairline, forehead, makeup, glasses.
Do NOT take from the photo: head angle, head tilt, face direction, gaze direction, expression.
If the person wears glasses in the photo, paint no glasses and leave no trace of them (no frame lines, no nose-pad marks).
Animals keep their own markings and colors, painted in the same stiff attempted-realism way with the same loose likeness.
}
TEXT {
Every letter is hand-painted with a brush: stroke thickness and baselines slightly uneven.
Title: big bold block-style Korean letters in a bright color, with a contrasting outline and a simple painted drop shadow. NOT calligraphy, NOT dark or heavy.
Tagline, genre label and cast names: smaller hand-painted letters.
Korean Hangul must be spelled correctly with no broken or invented characters.
No age rating badge, no rating text, no numbers badge.
No real movie titles, no real actor names, no real studio or brand logos, no watermark.
}
NEGATIVE {
theater building, entrance, street, sky, age rating badge, rating circle, digital illustration, digital painting, anime face, manhwa face, romance novel cover, modern poster art, clean vector lettering, printed poster, printed vinyl, smooth digital gradients without brush marks, pretty idealized face, beauty retouching, detailed eyelashes, sparkling eyes, individual hair strands, crayon texture, pastel strokes, dreamy pose, dark moody palette, deep shadows, calligraphy title, detailed scenery, small full-body figures, traced photo face, pasted photo face, photo-accurate likeness, completely different person, 3D render, copied head tilt, copied gaze, glasses marks, real name on billboard, real actor likeness, broken Hangul, extra fingers, distorted anatomy
}
OUTPUT {
Wide horizontal billboard. Aspect ratio 16:9 horizontal (if not available, use the widest horizontal ratio available). One image only, no text reply.
}
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