Dreamy Sari Portrait – Colored Pencil Illustration

Use the uploaded user photo as the **ONLY source of the main subject’s identity and facial appearance**. Preserve the user’s exact recognizable identity with maximum fidelity: facial structure, proportions, face shape, forehead, eyebrows, natural eye shape and spacing, nose, lips, mouth structure, cheeks, cheekbones, jawline, chin, skin tone, natural skin texture, hairline, facial characteristics, and all distinctive identity-defining details. **Do not copy the identity of either person in the reference image. Do not replace, redesign, beautify, slim, age, de-age, masculinize, feminize, or reinterpret the user’s face. The final main subject must unmistakably remain the person from the uploaded user photo.**
Recreate the reference image as closely as possible in a vertical **9:16 composition** with a hand-drawn colored-pencil/graphite illustration aesthetic. The scene shows the main subject occupying the large foreground area, positioned slightly left of center and extending from near the bottom edge to around the upper-middle of the frame. A second person stands farther behind on the right side as a supporting/background figure. Preserve the overall two-person composition, relative scale, spacing, cropping, perspective, and visual balance of the reference.
MAIN SUBJECT — BODY, POSE AND HEAD: Place the user’s identity in the exact foreground position of the reference. The body is shown in a relaxed three-quarter/front-facing stance, with the torso oriented generally toward the camera while the head turns slightly toward the right side of the image. Reproduce the reference head tilt and neck angle precisely. The subject has a calm, dreamy, subtly pleased expression rather than a broad smile. The lips are gently closed with a very slight natural upward softness. The eyes look toward the upper-right/right side of the frame rather than directly into the camera. Match the reference eye openness, eyebrow position, facial relaxation, head rotation, chin position, and gaze direction. **Do not use the expression, gaze, or head pose from the uploaded user photo; use only the reference image for those attributes.**
The main subject wears a flowing **light pink/lilac sari** with soft translucent fabric and delicate folds, draped naturally over the shoulders and across the torso. Preserve the reference clothing silhouette, fabric behavior, draping pattern, color family, and texture. Include the visible thin shoulder strap underneath where present, subtle necklace, small earrings, and the smartphone held naturally in the lower-left portion of the composition. Recreate the reference hand positions accurately: one hand holds the phone near the lower-left area while the other rests naturally across the sari near the waist/abdomen. Preserve realistic finger placement and anatomy.
HAIR: Reproduce the reference hairstyle’s overall visual arrangement—long, voluminous, naturally wavy dark hair falling heavily over the shoulders and down the front/right side of the torso, with loose strands framing the face. However, the hair must remain consistent with the user’s own natural identity, hairline, texture, and characteristics rather than copying another person’s identity.
SECONDARY PERSON: Keep a young adult male-presenting background figure standing behind the main subject on the right side, smaller because of perspective and depth. He wears a plain dark charcoal/black short-sleeve T-shirt and light beige/cream trousers. His body is relaxed, with one hand near/in a trouser pocket and the other arm hanging naturally. His head is tilted slightly toward the left/front, with a gentle relaxed expression and gaze directed toward the camera/main scene. Do not use this person as an identity reference for the main subject; he should remain a secondary generic character while preserving the reference composition.
COMPOSITION: Match the reference framing exactly: the main subject dominates the foreground, with the second figure partially behind and to the right. Keep the large area of warm pale beige background visible above the subjects. Do not center the main subject. Preserve the original relative head sizes, vertical positions, negative space, cropping at the lower edge, and distance between the two people. Maintain the natural overlap where the foreground subject partially obscures the background figure.
CAMERA AND PERSPECTIVE: Simulate an eye-level portrait camera positioned approximately at chest-to-eye height, using a natural perspective similar to a **50mm portrait lens**, with moderate depth and no exaggerated wide-angle distortion. The viewpoint is slightly elevated only as naturally perceived from the reference. Keep facial proportions realistic and preserve the reference’s apparent camera distance and framing. The image should feel like a carefully composed portrait photograph transformed into a highly detailed hand-drawn illustration.
BACKGROUND AND ENVIRONMENT: Use a simple warm cream/beige wall or blank indoor background with extremely subtle paper-like texture and faint irregular pencil strokes. No distracting architecture, furniture, scenery, or additional objects. The background should remain softly understated so the two figures are the focus.
LIGHTING: Reproduce soft, warm, diffuse natural lighting with gentle illumination across the faces and clothing. Use subtle shadows under the hair, chin, arms, folds of the sari, and around the secondary figure. Avoid dramatic studio lighting, harsh highlights, deep shadows, or artificial neon tones.
VISUAL STYLE: The entire image should look like a **high-quality hand-drawn colored-pencil and graphite illustration based on a photograph**, with fine pencil outlines, visible delicate strokes, layered colored-pencil shading, subtle paper grain, soft pastel colors, lightly crosshatched textures, realistic facial proportions, and detailed hair strands. Preserve photographic anatomy and dimensionality underneath the illustration treatment. The style should be elegant, warm, nostalgic, romantic, and softly textured rather than cartoonish, anime-like, or heavily exaggerated.
COLOR PALETTE: warm cream/beige background, natural warm skin tones, deep brown/black hair, muted charcoal shirt, soft beige trousers, and dusty pastel pink/lilac sari. Keep saturation moderate and slightly faded like traditional colored-pencil artwork on warm paper.
CRITICAL IDENTITY/EXPRESSION RULE: **USER PHOTO = WHO THE MAIN PERSON IS. REFERENCE IMAGE = HOW THE MAIN PERSON looks, poses, dresses, gazes, and behaves in this scene.** Preserve the user’s exact identity while transferring the reference subject’s facial expression, emotion, eye direction, head angle, body posture, hand placement, clothing, composition, and artistic treatment. Never allow the uploaded photo’s original expression, gaze, head pose, clothing, or background to override the reference. Do not merge the user’s face with the reference person’s face.
FINAL RESULT: A highly accurate vertical recreation of the supplied reference composition, with the uploaded user’s recognizable identity seamlessly occupying the foreground subject position, maintaining the reference’s calm sideways gaze, subtle expression, head pose, sari styling, hand positions, smartphone placement, background figure, warm cream environment, soft lighting, natural perspective, and detailed colored-pencil illustration aesthetic. No text, captions, logos, watermark, extra people, facial distortion, duplicated limbs, malformed hands, or unnecessary objects.