Naive Monochrome Breakout Poster

Naive Monochrome Breakout Poster

Use the system imagegen skill and image-generation tool. Treat every uploaded photograph as the edit source. Make the lower subject emerge from one black geometric field through imperfect but intentional monochrome drawing.

Output contract

• Produce one independent raster poster for every uploaded photo. Never combine photos into a collage, contact sheet, comparison layout, diptych, or shared canvas.
• Use a 3:4 portrait canvas with one exact horizontal 50/50 division. Keep truthful photography in the upper half and the monochrome breakout illustration in the lower half. Do not let either medium invade the other.
• Preserve immediate correspondence through the hero's silhouette, posture, proportion, direction, relationship, and distinctive local structure.
• Use only black, white, and a very small amount of gray. Do not introduce a color accent.
• Use one solid black rectangle and one primary hero.
• Render visible wording in English unless the user explicitly requests another language.
• Return every poster as a separate image. Keep user-facing commentary to one short status sentence only when necessary.

Preserve the photographic upper half

Keep the source recognizably photographic. Preserve subject identity and count, anatomy or construction, proportions, pose, silhouette, direction, spatial relationships, real materials, natural light, and the original color atmosphere.

Apply only restrained art-magazine, independent-publication, or exhibition-photography color correction. Do not redraw, vectorize, beautify, materially relight, or apply black fields, line art, typography, or graphic overlays to this region.

Crop deliberately for the upper half. When more area is needed, extend only plausible environmental background such as sky, ground, wall, water, foliage, or ambient space. Never stretch, warp, mirror, duplicate, or redesign the subject.

Find the personality-bearing breakout

Before prompting, privately identify:

1. the one hero subject or inseparable relationship carrying recognition;
2. its decisive contour, posture, proportion, direction, openings, overlaps, and center of gravity;
3. three to six identity features requiring a line, white counterform, or gray plane;
4. the one head, upper contour, branch, roof, limb, vehicle part, object edge, wave, or other feature with the strongest personality and directional energy;
5. the source action, mood, state, or implied meaning that the breakout can reveal or gently exaggerate;
6. whether a horizontal or vertical black rectangle best supports the hero;
7. one concise English title and one to three tiny annotation groups.

Choose a breakout feature because it carries identity and attitude, not merely because it touches the top of the source frame.

Do not expose this analysis or repeat the user's design brief.

Construct one black field

Choose a horizontal rectangle for low, wide, lateral, resting, spreading, or landscape-like subjects. Choose a vertical rectangle for tall, standing, growing, falling, climbing, architectural, or narrow subjects.

Set the field's position, scale, and crop from the hero's weight and direction. Keep most of the hero inside it, with large white paper surrounding the dense black area. Use the field to hide portions, generate white shapes, interrupt lines, and stabilize the composition.

Do not use multiple rectangles, a full-page black background, an irregular brush block, a complete frame, a title bar, a panel grid, or a decorative black shape unrelated to the hero.

Create a true inside-to-outside event

Build three connected zones:

1. a substantial hero section living inside the black field;
2. a boundary exchange where black fill, white negative shape, and hand-drawn contour meet or swap roles;
3. one personality-bearing feature continuing into white paper.

Use broken contour, local occlusion, cropped mass, and counterform so the rectangle visibly contains and releases the subject. Let the breakout follow a real lean, growth, reach, roof pitch, motion, gaze, or structural continuation.

If the black field can be removed and the hero still looks complete, redesign the interaction. Avoid a complete drawing pasted over black, white sticker outlines, glow, cutout shadows, many breakout points, forced poses, or a decorative object floating outside.

Draw with imperfect control

Use black ink-brush, technical-pen, photocopy, or dry reproduction line behavior. Keep the drawing concise and readable while allowing:

• small variations in line width and pressure;
• slight hand tremor at turns and long runs;
• short broken passages and incomplete joins;
• occasional restrained double tracing where the hand corrects a contour;
• minor registration or reproduction roughness;
• blunt starts, tapered stops, and tiny local ink irregularities.

Use only the structural lines, expression marks, folds, joints, openings, and small shadows needed for recognition. Let black field and white paper perform most tonal work; reserve gray for a few supporting planes.

The line should feel authored, slightly awkward, and alive—not careless. Avoid dense scribbling, repeated hairy outlines, chaotic noise, childish doodle faces, marker blobs, smooth vector perfection, realistic shading, crosshatching, halftone photo texture, or pure black silhouette.

Compose by area and asymmetry

Use the black rectangle as a stable heavy base, white paper as the largest breathing field, and gray as a rare intermediate. Place the hero asymmetrically according to its direction and center of gravity.

Build rhythm through scale, crop, negative shape, line density, one breakout, and one quiet exit. Add at most one or two simple support lines, platforms, edges, or geometric cuts when they clarify space. They may not become another subject.

Avoid template centering, rigid symmetry, equal margins, complex scenery, many gray panels, repeated icons, decorative geometry, or multiple focal points.

Present the result as a flat editorial artwork. Do not add a wall, frame, desk, sketchbook, pen, photocopier, gallery mockup, product card, or advertising layout.

Integrate English microtype

Derive one concise English title from the source's action, mood, state, or metaphor. Add one to three groups of tiny notes, numbers, state words, or short phrases when supported.

Place text near a rectangle edge, inside a white counterform, along the breakout direction, or slightly aligned/misaligned with a contour. Use black handwriting, slender sans serif, or restrained serif type at small scale.

Keep it like an illustrator's annotation, not a commercial headline. Do not use long copy, unsupported locations or numbers, slogans, logos, brands, signatures, pseudo-language, or watermarks.

Compile the image-edit prompt

Write one source-specific production prompt per input photo containing:

1. one independent 3:4 portrait output and the exact 50% photography / 50% monochrome-breakout split;
2. the upper-half preservation invariants, restrained color correction, crop, and any safe background extension;
3. the lower hero, relationship, contour, posture, proportion, direction, center of gravity, and three to six identity features;
4. the personality-bearing breakout feature and the source action, mood, state, or meaning it carries;
5. the exact horizontal or vertical black rectangle, size, position, crop, area ratio, and containment function;
6. the hero's internal, boundary, and external zones, with exact line interruption, counterform, occlusion, and continuation;
7. the imperfect ink/technical-pen/photocopy line behavior, limited gray planes, white openings, internal details, and deleted information;
8. the asymmetric placement, black/white/gray area hierarchy, support geometry, entry, breakout, and quiet exit;
9. the exact English title and one-to-three microtype groups with their edge-, counterform-, direction-, or contour-aware placement;
10. hard exclusions: no multi-photo layout, no altered or redrawn upper subject, no approximate split, no color accent, no multiple black fields, no complete drawing pasted on black, no sticker border, no pure silhouette, no smooth vector line, no dense scribble, no excessively hairy outline, no childish cartoon, no realistic shading, no 3D, no product card, no logo, and no watermark.

Use concrete field direction, contour exchange, line imperfection, area ratio, and source personality rather than relying on adjectives such as “premium,” “naive,” “witty,” or “artistic.”

Inspect and correct

Review every result at full size and thumbnail size. Verify the exact split, truthful upper photography, immediate lower recognition, one black rectangle, true internal/boundary/external interaction, one personality-bearing breakout, intentional imperfect line, readable white counterforms, very limited gray, no color, large white paper, and restrained English notes.

If the hero looks pasted on, break contours at the boundary and exchange black/white roles. If the result feels too polished, add restrained pressure variation, interruption, and one or two corrective line echoes. If it becomes messy, delete secondary strokes while preserving a few purposeful imperfections. If it resembles a silhouette, reopen white internal shapes and restore structural lines. If the breakout feels generic, choose a more identity-bearing local feature. Regenerate with one targeted correction when needed.