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- Photography
Photorealistic Chinese Ink-Wash Fashion Portrait
Create a monochrome luxury fashion editorial portrait that combines a photorealistic woman with expressive Chinese ink-wash elements around her gown and background.
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Prompt template
- Format
- Text Parameterized
- Inputs
- reference_image (image) · Required
- Outputs
- fashion_portrait (image)
Replace the ${…} placeholders with your values
before using this prompt. See parameters
and defaults below.
Use ${reference-image} as the facial reference. Preserve the subject’s facial identity as closely as possible, including face shape, eyes, eyebrows, nose, lips, skin texture, facial proportions, natural skin details, and overall resemblance. Do not alter her facial structure, age, or distinctive features.
The subject must look like a real human being and a professional fashion model captured in a luxury editorial photoshoot—not an illustration, painting, CGI character, doll, mannequin, or anime character. Prioritize photorealistic anatomy, authentic skin texture and pores, natural facial features, lifelike hair strands, and realistic lighting. Keep her face, hands, neck, shoulders, and visible body completely photorealistic.
Create a hyper-realistic fine-art fashion portrait inspired by traditional Chinese ink-wash (Shan Shui / Sumi-e). Apply the ink aesthetic only to the clothing, flowing fabric, smoke, ink splashes, brush strokes, and background. Do not turn the woman’s face, skin, or body into painted textures; she remains a real person within an artistic ink composition.
Subject and pose: Show the woman in a graceful side profile transitioning subtly into a three-quarter view. Her body is turned away from the camera, emphasizing the curve of her back, shoulder, and neck while maintaining a refined feminine silhouette. Gently incline her head downward; her eyes are lowered, not looking at the viewer. Her expression conveys quiet melancholy, serenity, and poetic elegance. Let her left arm hang naturally alongside her body, with the hand gradually disappearing into the flowing lower portion of the garment and blending with the surrounding ink textures. A soft breeze lifts loose strands of hair and pulls trailing fabric backward, adding subtle movement.
Attire and styling: Dress her in an elegant couture-inspired black gown with a high Victorian-style neckline. The collar and upper shoulders feature intricate lace embroidery, delicate floral patterns, and luxurious handcrafted textures. Let the structured lace transition into translucent silk, smoky chiffon, and flowing ink-like fabric. The lower half of the gown dissolves organically into drifting black ink, watercolor diffusion, soft smoke, feathered brush strokes, and expressive ink splashes, as if the dress were transforming into liquid ink. Style her hair in an elegant loose updo, with long delicate strands naturally framing her face and flowing gently in the breeze. Add one small, understated black or silver drop earring.
Composition and style: Create a museum-quality luxury fashion editorial portrait seamlessly blending ultra-realistic photography with expressive Chinese ink painting. Keep the subject completely photorealistic; ink elements belong only around the dress, in the surrounding atmosphere, and in the background. Let large flowing ink splashes, watercolor blooms, smoky gradients, feathered brush strokes, and fluid pigment diffusion surround the figure organically without covering or distorting her realistic face or body. Position her slightly to the right, leaving generous negative space on the left. Make the composition balanced, elegant, and cinematic, like a luxury fine-art exhibition print.
Background: Use a bright white to soft light grey background with subtle watercolor paper texture. Let soft ink bleeds, abstract water stains, drifting smoke, delicate brush textures, and atmospheric ink clouds emerge through the negative space while keeping the overall look clean and minimalist.
Lighting: Use soft, diffused studio lighting to gently illuminate her face, neck, shoulders, and upper body. Her skin should appear luminous and naturally textured, with visible pores and realistic light falloff. Aim for a porcelain-like complexion while keeping it completely photographic and believable.
Color palette: Strict monochrome only—pure white, light grey, neutral grey, charcoal grey, and deep black. No warm or saturated colors; no gold, blue, or brown.
Mood: Elegant, minimalist, quiet luxury, melancholic, poetic, timeless, sophisticated, ethereal, museum-quality fine art, and luxury haute couture editorial.
Image quality: Ultra-photorealistic, like a real professional fashion photograph and luxury haute couture campaign. Aim for a masterpiece-quality, museum-quality composition with natural facial anatomy, authentic skin texture and visible pores, realistic eyes, natural eyelashes, individual hair strands, highly detailed lace, soft cinematic lighting, high dynamic range, ultra-sharp focus on the face, elegant depth of field, 8K resolution, and extreme detail.
Negative prompts: painting, illustration, digital art, anime, manga, cartoon, CGI, 3D render, doll, mannequin, plastic skin, wax skin, overprocessed skin, unrealistic anatomy, deformed face, distorted proportions, low quality, blurry, low resolution, oversaturated colors, watermark, logo, text, signature.
Parameters
Replace each placeholder with your own value, or use its default when one is provided.
${reference-image}
reference-image
Required
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