Semi-Realistic Illustrated Portrait with an Off-White Cap

Create a polished, identity-preserving digital cartoon portrait from a photo, using a sample image to match the centered pose, off-white outfit, soft lighting, and clean background.

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identity_reference_photo (image) · Required composition_style_reference (image) · Required
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illustrated_portrait (image)
Create an ultra-premium, high-resolution, semi-realistic digital cartoon portrait of the person in the uploaded reference photo. Preserve the person's exact facial identity, natural facial features, skin tone, face shape, eyes, nose, lips, beard style, and recognizable appearance. Transform the person into a polished, professional, hand-drawn digital illustration while keeping the face highly realistic and natural.

Pose & Composition: Create a perfectly centered, front-facing chest-up portrait. The subject is looking directly at the camera with a gentle, confident smile, relaxed facial expression, and calm personality. Keep the head straight, shoulders relaxed and slightly rounded forward, and both shoulders equally visible. The subject's face must remain symmetrical and positioned in the center of the frame. Maintain the exact same pose, head angle, camera perspective, body position, and framing as the reference image.

Outfit & Accessories: The subject is wearing a plain, clean, off-white crew-neck T-shirt with natural fabric folds, subtle stitching, and realistic shoulder details. Add a simple black cord necklace hanging naturally around the neck. Include a premium off-white baseball cap with a curved visor, fine fabric texture, visible stitching, and a small circular black emblem centered on the front. The cap should fit naturally on the head and cast a soft shadow over the forehead and eyes.

Hairstyle & Facial Hair: Keep the hairstyle mostly concealed beneath the baseball cap. Reproduce the person's natural beard and moustache accurately, with clean, finely detailed hair strands, a well-defined beard outline, and subtle individual hair textures. Preserve the original facial characteristics of the uploaded photo.

Background: Use a plain, minimal, warm light-grey and ivory background with a very subtle gradient. Keep the background completely clean, smooth, and uncluttered, without objects, scenery, patterns, or distracting elements. The background must match the reference image in color, simplicity, and overall atmosphere.

Art Style & Rendering: Premium semi-realistic digital illustration, realistic facial anatomy, smooth yet detailed skin shading, clean black ink outlines, delicate contour lines, finely rendered eyes, naturally shaped eyebrows, detailed beard texture, soft highlights on the nose and cheeks, subtle shadows around the neck, and beautifully blended skin tones. Combine professional comic-book line art with sophisticated digital painting. Use crisp, controlled outlines around the cap, face, ears, neck, T-shirt, and shoulders. The final image should look like a high-end, professionally illustrated portrait rather than a basic cartoon, anime, or exaggerated caricature.

Lighting & Colors: Soft, evenly diffused studio lighting from the front, gentle shadows beneath the cap brim and chin, balanced exposure, natural skin tones, muted ivory and beige color palette, subtle contrast, and refined tonal transitions. Maintain the original reference image's soft, bright, clean aesthetic.

Image Quality: Ultra-detailed 4K-quality appearance, razor-sharp facial features, clean vector-like linework, high-quality digital brushwork, smooth gradients, precise outlines, realistic fabric texture, professional color grading, polished edges, excellent facial symmetry, and premium illustration quality. Vertical 4:5 square composition, centered bust portrait, with the upper torso visible and the lower chest naturally cropped at the bottom edge.

Strict Reference Matching: Use the uploaded photo as the identity reference and the provided sample image as the composition and style reference. Keep the same front-facing pose, same gentle smile, same cap placement, same off-white T-shirt, same black necklace, same plain light-grey background, same shoulder positioning, same framing, and same semi-realistic cartoon illustration style. Only the person's identity should adapt to the newly uploaded photo. Do not introduce unnecessary changes.

Negative Prompt: blurry image, low resolution, poor quality, distorted face, altered identity, asymmetrical eyes, crossed eyes, unnatural smile, exaggerated facial features, plastic skin, excessive smoothing, anime style, 3D render, photorealistic camera look, messy outlines, harsh shadows, oversaturated colors, busy background, extra accessories, extra necklaces, deformed ears, incorrect hands, duplicate facial features, watermark, text, logo distortion, cropped head, tilted composition, different pose, different clothing, or different background.

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