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Design & Image

Naive Broad-Marker Editorial Doodle

Redraw an uploaded image as a sparse, playful marker doodle while preserving its identity, composition, pose, and key color relationships.

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Text
Inputs
Source_image (image) · Required
Outputs
Doodle_image (image)
Use the uploaded image as the sole source for identity, content, composition, and color. Preserve each subject’s pose, expression, clothing, and objects directly involved in the action. Keep face shape, hairstyle, eyewear, facial hair, age, and gender presentation recognizable.

Composition:
Keep the source framing, crop, camera angle, subject scale, positions, overlaps, and gestures. Do not mirror, recenter, zoom, or rearrange the content. Isolate the subject and essential interacting props against open paper.

Drawing:
Redraw everything as an extremely simple, naive editorial doodle using broad felt-tip and opaque paint markers. Reduce bodies, hair, clothes, animals, and props to large shapes. Inflate bulky forms and compress heads, hands, and details. Use awkward bends and charming errors while keeping the action clear. Make the head small relative to the torso. Reduce eyes to dots or loops, the nose to one crooked mark, and the mouth to a short stroke. Use few lines for folds, fur, feet, and surfaces.

Linework:
Choose the clearest saturated, non-neutral hue from the source as the contour ink, and brighten it into a vivid medium-value marker tone. Draw with a broad, rounded nib and continuous one-pass lines, with gentle wobble, uneven pressure, blunt ends, and crooked joins. Make main contours 1.7–2.3 times thicker than internal marks. Limit each large shape to 1–3 interior strokes. Do not retrace; avoid dense hatching, double lines, thin outlines, and vector curves.

Color and fill:
Reduce the source palette to one dominant object color and 1–2 sampled accents. Keep most secondary objects, light clothing, skin highlights, and structural props paper-white with colored outlines. Use dark tones only for tiny facial anchors. Apply the main color with wide overlapping marker sweeps, visible bands, uneven density, and narrow paper gaps. Cover 65–80% of the main colored shape; give accents 10–35% coverage and pale areas 0–10%. Allow slight misregistration and edge spill. Do not fill every object. Show form through overlap and a few crease lines, never shading.

Background:
Use blank, warm off-white paper with subtle tooth. Remove walls, floors, ground planes, environmental detail, cast shadows, and gray bases. Retain only objects that support or interact with the subject. Draw them as sparse open contours with little or no fill. Keep at least 70% of the image visually unmarked.

Style:
Naive outsider illustration, childlike broad-marker portrait, editorial fashion doodle, and rough poster-marker coloring. Strictly flat 2D: bold, sparse, playful, unbalanced, and unfinished. Prioritize simple silhouettes, white space, and one-pass energy.

Negative constraints:
Do not add or omit subjects, essential props, or limbs. Do not change the pose, crop, camera, identity, or major color relationships. Avoid realistic faces, polished anatomy, thin clean contours, fully colored secondary objects, gray floor patches, dense backgrounds, colored-pencil texture, wax-crayon grain, pencil hatching, alcohol-marker gradients, watercolor, clean vector art, 3D, anime, manga, gloss, shadows, text, borders, logos, watermarks, and UI.

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