Two-Color Photo and Hand-Drawn Observation Poster

Format

Text

Inputs

Photo (image) · Required

Outputs

Finished_vertical_poster (image)

Turn the single photo I upload into one vertical poster, following the rules below. Do not stitch several photos together or build a collage. One uploaded photo gives one output image.

FRAME
- The canvas is 3:4 vertical.
- Split it into an exact top half and bottom half. The border is a straight horizontal line at 50 percent of the canvas height, never tilted and never blurred.
- The top half is the photo, filling the canvas from edge to edge. No margin, no border, no rounded corners around it.
- The bottom half is paper.
- Do not place a frame line or a thick divider between the two areas.

TOP HALF, THE UPLOADED PHOTO
- Use the photo I uploaded as a photograph. Do not turn it into a drawing, do not shift its colours much, and do not add anything that was not there.
- Keep the subject's build, pose, real texture, natural light, and original colour mood.
- Apply only the very light correction a magazine would apply.
- Extending the sky or ground a little to fit the ratio is fine, but never stretch or squash the subject.

BOTTOM HALF, A TWO-COLOUR PEN DRAWING
- Pull out only the most recognisable subject, pose, and relationship from the photo above.
- Do not trace the photo. Keep one centre and a few necessary clues, and drop the rest without hesitation.
- Redraw it minimally and clumsily, the way a child draws, while leaving the original instantly recognisable.
- At the same time, invent one piece of humour or everyday observation that the photo does not contain. This is not an illustration explaining the photo; it is a note about what came to mind while looking at it.
- Do not fill the bottom half. Wide empty paper is part of the drawing. The subject may sit off to one side or sit small.
- Add only the few small elements the story actually needs: an arrow, a short line, or a motion mark. Do not scatter decoration.

COLOUR
- Use only two hand-drawn ink colours: red and blue.
- The blue is a retro ballpoint or crayon blue. The red is a warm red leaning towards vermilion or tomato.
- Use nothing beyond those two colours and the very light paper tone.
- Let the two colours alternate naturally through lines, partial fills, marks, and letters. Do not lay down a wide, even, flat fill.

LINE
- Lines are thin, loose, and a little crooked. Wobble, breaks, redrawn strokes, slightly exaggerated proportions, and outlines that do not close are all fine.
- Shapes are simple and direct, but the key outline, pose, and relationship must be correct.
- Do not use smooth vector lines, ruled strokes, or an overly cute cartoon style.

PAPER
- Use very light, near-white paper. It carries only the faintest warm or cool cast, matched to the colour temperature of the photo above.
- Leave only a very faint paper-fibre grain.
- Do not make it yellowed or aged.

LETTERING
- Write one short handwritten remark. It can come from the mood, motion, relationship, a sound, or a memory in the photo. An exclamation, a thought said out loud, or one short sentence is enough.
- Keep the lettering inside the paper half only. Letters crossing onto the photo above are a failure.
- Place the lettering in the upper left or the middle left of the paper half. Do not push it to the right edge.
- The whole block of lettering is no wider than half the canvas width.
- Use no more than four words per line and no more than three lines. Longer than that is a failure.
- The handwriting is small and loose. An uneven baseline and ragged letter spacing are fine.
- Each individual letter shape must still be correct. Do not drop a stroke, smudge a letter, or swap one letter for another. The wobble belongs to the placement of the letters, not to the spelling.
- If you are not confident of a spelling, drop that word and use a shorter remark instead.

LETTERING: WHAT IS NOT ALLOWED
- Every letter in the image must be English. Never place Hangul, Chinese characters, or Japanese in it.
- If the photo contains a Hangul or Chinese character sign, treat it in the drawing below as a blank colour field or an empty shape. Do not copy the characters across.
- No digits anywhere. No dates, years, numbers, or times.
- No brackets and no section names in the image. Do not use words like canvas, paper, line, colour, or lettering as labels.
- Do not write the same remark twice.
- No signature, watermark, logo, or page number.

AVOID
Busy backgrounds, redrawing the whole scene as it is, piling up detail, any colour beyond red and blue, a sticker look, commercial cartoon style, cute templates, slick digital lines, and the feel of a shopping page.

OVERALL
It should read as a carefully kept personal observation note, not a children's picture book.
Clumsy, unhurried, humorous, and mild. It should carry the sense of editorial design that knows what to leave empty.
Return only the finished image.