Cinematic Ink Portrait

Use the uploaded user photo as the **ONLY source of the main subject’s identity**. Preserve the user’s exact recognizable identity with maximum fidelity: facial structure, face shape, proportions, forehead, hairline, eyebrows, natural eye shape and spacing, nose, lips, cheeks, cheekbones, jawline, chin, skin tone, natural skin texture, facial hair if present, and every distinctive facial characteristic. **Do not copy or reproduce the identity of the reference subject. Do not beautify, slim, age, de-age, masculinize, feminize, or redesign the user’s face. The user’s identity must remain unmistakably their own.**
Use the reference image strictly as the visual blueprint for everything other than identity. Recreate the same illustrated portrait composition: a rugged adult subject shown from approximately the waist/chest area upward, occupying most of the vertical frame, with the body facing generally toward the viewer and the head slightly tilted and turned toward the camera. The subject has a serious, intense, contemplative expression with relaxed but focused eyes, slightly narrowed eyelids, naturally set eyebrows, and a subtle closed or nearly closed mouth. The gaze is directed toward the camera/viewer with a calm, brooding intensity. Reconstruct this exact emotional expression, eye direction, head position, and facial behavior using the user’s own identity rather than the reference person’s facial features.
Match the reference pose precisely: the subject raises one hand toward the mouth, holding a small cigarette delicately between the fingers near the lips. The raised arm bends naturally at the elbow and crosses upward in front of the torso. Fingers must have realistic anatomical proportions and a relaxed grip around the cigarette. The other arm remains lowered and relaxed near the torso. Preserve the reference’s confident, slightly weary posture and natural shoulder positioning.
Recreate the clothing from the reference: a rugged dark olive/green military-inspired overshirt or jacket with a structured collar, visible seams, folds, pockets and textured fabric, layered over a matching dark green high-neck/crew-neck shirt. Keep the clothing practical, masculine or feminine only according to the user’s own identity presentation, while faithfully reproducing the reference garment shapes, construction, colors, folds and layering. Do not allow the clothing to alter the user’s identity.
The entire image must be rendered as a highly detailed **hand-drawn graphic-novel / vintage engraved illustration**, not a photograph. Use extremely fine cross-hatching, dense ink linework, etched facial details, stippling, engraved contours, layered pen strokes and textured illustrative shading. Preserve realistic anatomy while maintaining the sophisticated illustrated aesthetic. Facial skin should contain intricate cross-hatched tonal detail, especially across the forehead, cheeks, nose and beard area. Hair should be rendered with hundreds of individually suggested ink strokes, following the natural hairline and hairstyle of the user while adapting the reference’s swept-back, slightly long, textured appearance without changing identity.
Use a distinctive cinematic color palette dominated by deep olive green, muted teal/cyan, dark blue-green, warm burnt orange, copper and earthy brown. Apply warm orange illumination across the left/front side of the subject and cool teal illumination along the opposite side, producing a dramatic two-tone split-light effect. Maintain subtle dark shadows beneath the jaw, around the neck, clothing folds and recessed facial areas. Add tiny warm highlights around the eyes, nose, lips, fingers and cigarette ember. The cigarette should be small and understated, with a subtle glowing red-orange ember near the fingertips and a faint trace of smoke if visually appropriate.
Background: clean off-white/very pale cream paper with a subtle handmade print texture. Behind the subject, incorporate extremely faint abstract geometric linework and thin flowing contour patterns, including diagonal construction lines, curved wave-like forms and minimal architectural/technical shapes. Keep these background elements delicate and low-contrast so they never compete with the subject. No scenery, room, landscape or additional characters.
Composition: vertical **9:16 portrait orientation**, tightly framed from approximately mid-torso upward, with the subject large in frame and extending close to the bottom and side edges. Keep generous pale negative space around the upper head and portions of the shoulders, while maintaining the same visual balance as the reference. Camera perspective should resemble a straight-on portrait illustration at approximately eye level with a subtle intimate close-camera feel. Avoid wide-angle distortion. Maintain natural facial proportions and realistic anatomy.
Reproduce the reference’s overall visual language: premium cinematic character illustration, vintage comic-book engraving, highly detailed pen-and-ink artwork, sophisticated editorial poster aesthetic, tactile printed-paper texture, dramatic teal-and-orange color grading, crisp linework, controlled cross-hatching, subtle grain, deep dimensional shadows, and extremely high detail. The result should look like a professionally illustrated collectible movie-poster portrait rather than a generic cartoon or digital painting.
**STRICT IDENTITY SEPARATION:** USER PHOTO = WHO THE PERSON IS. REFERENCE IMAGE = HOW THE PERSON is posed, looking, expressing emotion, dressed, illuminated, composed and illustrated. Never transfer the reference subject’s facial identity, facial proportions, distinctive features, or recognizable likeness onto the user. Preserve the user’s exact identity while faithfully reconstructing the reference’s expression, gaze, head angle, body pose, clothing, hand position, composition, lighting and artistic style.
No text, typography, logos, watermarks, signatures, captions, borders, extra people, extra hands, malformed fingers, duplicated limbs, distorted facial anatomy, altered identity, artificial beauty retouching, photorealism, 3D rendering, smooth plastic skin, cartoon simplification, or unrelated background elements.