Rough Textured Minimalist Portrait from a Photo
Turn an uploaded portrait into an expressive, rough-brush digital illustration using only five specified colors.
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Use my uploaded photograph as the primary and only source for the person’s appearance. Transform it into minimalist, modern digital art made with a coarse, textured digital brush.
Make the image look hand-painted, with pronounced digital noise and grain. Use uneven, rough, irregular brushstrokes rather than smooth fills or perfectly clean contours. Keep the edges soft, uneven, and slightly blurred, with no precise rendering of small details.
Preserve the person’s recognizable identity, main proportions, and distinctive facial features while simplifying them into an expressive illustration. Make the eyes large—almost extending beyond the face—slightly squinted, expressive, and simplified. Add only a few separate, short strokes for eyelashes, exclusively on the lower eyelids. Avoid dense or long lashes and do not render fine eye details. Keep the eyebrows simplified and graphic. Render the lips as flat, quickly sketched shapes without fine detail.
Give the chin an elongated, pointed shape. If ears are visible in the reference, stylize them with a slightly square, geometric shape. Do not outline the nose: create its form exclusively through areas of color, light and dark, and soft color shadows. Do not draw distinct contour lines around it. Emphasize the cheeks with large, expressive patches of blush.
Use exactly these five colors and no others: coral, bright blue, white, black, and pink-beige. Do not add gray, brown, purple, green, yellow, or any intermediate shades. Create all shading, volume, and details only through the interaction of these five colors. Keep the colors bright, saturated, and harmonious. Use a white background.
Render the hair as large, simplified shapes with rough brush texture, without fine strands. Simplify the clothing into broad areas of color; omit fabric texture, small folds, and realistic details. Depict the skin with flat but lively coral and pink-beige patches and a coarse, grainy brush texture.
The result should be deliberately rough, slightly careless, minimalist digital art made with a scratchy, noisy brush—not a neat vector illustration or realistic digital painting. Avoid clean, perfect contours, fine detailing, photorealism, smooth gradients, and excessive detail. Make the image expressive, slightly caricatured, and artistically imperfect, like a quick hand-drawn digital sketch.
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