Minimalist Hand-Drawn Pet Illustration from a Photo

Format

Text Parameterized

Inputs

reference_photo (image) · Required pet_name (text) · Optional · Default:

Outputs

animal_illustration (image)

Replace the ${…} placeholders with your values before using this prompt. See parameters and defaults below.

Based on the animal photograph I have uploaded, transform the animal into a minimalist, hand-drawn illustration that feels relaxed, cute, naïve, and playful.

PET NAME — OPTIONAL

Name: (${pet-name:})

If a name is written inside the parentheses, include it in the illustration.

If the parentheses are empty, DO NOT add any text, title, word, letter, or invented name.

Preserve the name written inside the parentheses exactly. Do not translate it, correct it, change its spelling, or add any additional words.

The name must appear HANDWRITTEN, with deliberately imperfect, naïve, irregular, slightly clumsy lettering, as though someone quickly wrote the name directly on the paper with a pencil, crayon, or fine-tip marker.

The handwriting should feel spontaneous, awkward, and charming.

The letters may have slightly different sizes, uneven heights, different slants, imperfect spacing, and somewhat shaky strokes.

DO NOT use a clean digital typeface.

DO NOT use a geometric, elegant, or professional font.

DO NOT use perfect calligraphy.

DO NOT use sophisticated lettering.

DO NOT use elegant cursive.

DO NOT make it look like a logo.

The name must look genuinely handwritten by the same person who made the drawing.

It must share the illustration's naïve, handmade, relaxed, and imperfect aesthetic.

Place the name BELOW THE DRAWING, relatively close to it but not touching it.

The name must be SMALL and discreet.

Leave enough space between the drawing and the name for both to breathe visually.

Use black or very dark gray with the slightly irregular texture of pencil, crayon, or hand-applied ink.

The name must never compete visually with the animal.

Do not add any other text.

FORMAT AND COMPOSITION

Use a vertical 3:4 format.

The final result must show ONLY the illustrated reinterpretation of the animal.

Do not include the original photograph.

Do not divide the image into two parts.

Do not create before-and-after compositions, panels, collages, or upper and lower sections.

Use the photograph exclusively as a visual reference to recognize the animal, its main characteristics, its pose, its expression, and, VERY IMPORTANTLY, exactly which parts of its body are visible.

The illustrated animal must appear SMALL relative to the overall canvas size.

Place the illustration as a whole EXACTLY IN THE CENTER of the canvas, both horizontally and vertically.

The illustration should occupy approximately 25% to 35% of the total image area.

Leave a LARGE amount of white negative space around the drawing on every side: above, below, left, and right.

Do not enlarge the animal to fill the frame.

Do not turn the illustration into a close-up.

The composition should feel like a small drawing made in the center of a large sheet of white paper.

ABSOLUTE FIDELITY TO THE ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPH

VERY IMPORTANT:

Draw ONLY the parts of the animal that can actually be seen in the original photograph.

DO NOT complete the animal's body.

DO NOT reconstruct parts outside the photograph.

DO NOT invent legs, a tail, a torso, ears, limbs, or any other part that is not clearly visible.

DO NOT try to guess how the body continues outside the frame.

DO NOT change the pose to make the animal appear anatomically complete.

DO NOT rearrange the limbs.

DO NOT add body parts simply to achieve a complete silhouette.

If a body part is cropped by the original frame, hidden behind another part of the animal, covered by an object, or simply cannot be clearly seen, it must remain ABSENT from the illustration.

It is better to leave the drawing incomplete than to invent visual information that does not exist.

OPEN AND INCOMPLETE DRAWING

If the animal appears partially outside the frame in the original photograph, the illustration does NOT have to show the entire animal.

Deliberately allow the drawing to remain open.

Where a body part stops being visible in the photograph, the drawing may end through:

• Open lines.
• Interrupted contours.
• Incomplete strokes.
• Fading lines.
• Shapes that simply stop continuing.

Do not artificially close the silhouette.

Do not fill in missing areas.

Do not reconstruct complete anatomy.

The result may look like a small sketch made by directly observing the photograph and drawing only what the artist can actually see.

Parts that are not visible must remain undrawn.

IMPORTANT: A partially open or incomplete illustration is CORRECT and preferable to an illustration with invented anatomy.

POSE — VERY IMPORTANT

Preserve the animal's original pose with particular fidelity.

Respect:

• The tilt of the head.
• The position of the visible legs.
• The orientation of the visible torso.
• The direction of the gaze.
• The relative positions of the head, body, and limbs.
• The overall pose.
• The funniest or most distinctive gesture in the photograph.

If the pose is strange, twisted, lying down, upside down, awkward, funny, or seemingly absurd, PRESERVE IT.

Do not correct the pose.

Do not try to make it more elegant.

Do not try to make it anatomically conventional.

The unusual nature of the original pose is part of the illustration's charm.