Limited-Palette Hand-Drawn Illustration from a Photo

Transform an uploaded photo into a calm, flat-color magazine illustration with loose hand-drawn lines, an ivory-and-blue palette, and faithful source content.

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source_photo (image) · Required
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hand_drawn_illustration (image)
Please interpret the photo I uploaded as a simple and calm hand-drawn illustration.Photos are the only source of the image content; please do not add people, animals, furniture, buildings, or other important objects that are not in the photo.

First of all, please identify the main objects, dynamic relationships, and characteristics of the scenes in the photos.Keep these elements, but remove duplicates, clutter, and unnecessary details.Don't circle photos pixel by pixel and don't intentionally create a scene in the form of a cafe or street.

The composition should use simple hand-drawn lines and matte colored blocks.:

Walls, backgrounds, and basic structures of a large area should be made in smooth color blocks.;

People, animals, tables, chairs, doors, windows, and small objects are mostly depicted using detailed and slightly wavy dark lines drawn by hand.;

Lines can contain pauses, overlays, and slight offsets; there is no need to close everything in a row.;

The proportions and perspective of the object are a bit rough, but the main object can still be clearly defined.;

Do not use realistic shadows, reflections, textures, or depth of field in a photographic style.

The color palette should be limited to a few selected tones: warm natural tones of ivory white paper, cobalt blue or indigo with gray shades, dark gray-black and a small amount of ochre red.If necessary, use just a little pale yellow color for decoration.The color scheme should be based on the content of the original photograph; you should not mechanically color each object in shades of blue and red.

Blue forms the main and relatively uniform matte surface in the composition; red is used only for some rhythmic details.The rest of the area retains the ivory paper surface and free lines.Leave plenty of free space; don't fill in all the background details in the photo entirely.

There may be small and natural print marks on the screen and uneven changes in ink absorption, but the overall color block should be smooth and solid.Do not fill the entire composition with grainy, dense white voids, uneven pencil marks, or evenly applied "old paper" filters.

The overall effect should be similar to an independent hand-painted magazine illustration created using a limited color palette: flat coloring, relaxed and slightly naive, both with bright large color blocks and with gentle but unrestrainedly realistic lines.

Do not create photo filters, realistic images, colored pencil sketches, rough crayon drawings, oil paintings, smooth vector illustrations, or commercial cartoons.Please do not copy specific objects that may be displayed in a reference style, such as cafes, cats, or striped awnings; the contents of the image must be taken from the photos I uploaded.Do not add titles, logos, or watermarks.

Please keep the orientation and aspect ratio of the original image.

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