Split-Panel Photo and Wax-Crayon Poster

Format

Text

Inputs

Uploaded_photo_or_photos (image) · Required

Outputs

Individual_poster_or_posters (image)

For each uploaded photo, create a separate, high-end designed poster. Do not combine multiple photos into one image; produce one poster per photo.

Use a vertical 3:4 composition divided into two equal-height zones, each occupying exactly 50% of the poster.

UPPER HALF — PHOTOGRAPH
Preserve the original photo, including the subject’s identity, structure, pose, realistic texture, natural light and shadow, and original color atmosphere. Apply only subtle, high-end photographic refinement, as if preparing the image for an art journal, independent publication, or exhibition photograph. To fit the composition, you may naturally extend the sky, ground, or surrounding background, but never stretch, distort, or alter the subject.

LOWER HALF — SILHOUETTE ILLUSTRATION
Extract the most recognizable subject, outline, pose, and narrative relationships from the photo, and reconstruct them as an ultra-minimal silhouette illustration in a rough dry-medium technique. Do not mechanically copy photographic details. Compress the subject into a rounded, substantial, slightly naïve, generalized shape. You may moderately enlarge the head, key contours, or most memorable features so the original is instantly recognizable even with minimal detail. If the photo contains multiple subjects, preserve their most important interactions and treat them as one visual unit rather than giving each equal focus.

Use only an almost pure white paper background and dense black wax crayon, charcoal pencil, or dry-brush marks. Use no color and no gray gradients. Build black shapes from repeated, short, energetic wax marks rather than smooth, solid vector blocks. Preserve paper texture, broken strokes, indentations, rough edges, uneven tones, and small local white gaps. Let contours waver and remain incomplete or imprecise so the result feels genuinely handmade. Emphasize key recognizable features with sudden white cutout areas within the black silhouette—for example, around a face or eyes, in window openings, vessel holes, an animal’s muzzle, an object’s main structure, or its most distinctive feature. Complete expressions and details with only minimal black dots, short lines, or symbols. Do not aim for realistic facial features or precise structure; use direct, engaging contrasts between black and white to make the subject recognizable.

Keep large areas of clean white space and establish one main visual connection. The subject may float near the center, sit slightly off-center, be partly cropped, or touch the lower edge. Use only one rough ground-friction line, a few short strokes, or minimal environmental symbols to suggest space. Reduce grass, rain, smoke, a table, shadows, a road, wind, and other environmental elements to minimal wax marks, leaving the background quiet and empty. Avoid complex scenes; let one pose, action, distance, or relationship carry the main story.

TYPOGRAPHY AND COMPOSITION
Combine a restrained, high-end editorial sensibility with the simplicity of a children’s book, using a small-scale type system. Do not settle for merely naming a place or object: draw on the photo’s emotion, action, relationships, time, or a small implied story to create a short English title. Add a number, a fitting quote, a chapter number, or one very brief, suggestive complete sentence. Typography may be restrained and printed, with only a little awkward handwritten or wax-like lettering, or slightly irregular letterforms, so it feels integral to the illustration.

Make the text interact inventively with the graphics: place it along the ground line, extend it in the subject’s direction of movement, tuck it into broad white space, let it slightly overlap a contour, fit it into the negative space between subjects, or connect a number to the subject with a fine line. Limit the text to one short title and one or two groups of extremely small supporting text. The lettering should contribute to the composition’s rhythm rather than look like a conventional poster headline.

Overall, make the black rough, the white clean, the shapes simple, and the texture grainy. Balance childlike warmth, quietness, humor, and loneliness, like an old black-and-white children’s book reissued by a high-end design studio. Avoid smooth digital contours, precise lines, realistic light and shadow in the illustration, dense solid fills, 3D effects, color, broad gray washes, cardboard-sticker aesthetics, and generic commercial illustration.