Wax Pastel Paper Field Poster

Wax Pastel Paper Field Poster

Use the system imagegen skill and image-generation tool. Treat each uploaded photograph as the edit source. Preserve the source's emotional weight while redrawing only its essential form with imperfect wax pastel.

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 wax-pastel paper composition 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 defining local features.
• 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 pastel, paper texture, typography, or graphic overlays to this region.

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

Read the source into a minimal drawing

Before prompting, privately identify:

1. the one hero subject or inseparable relationship carrying recognition;
2. its decisive contour, posture, proportion, movement, overlap, and negative space;
3. three to six identity features that must survive simplification;
4. the photograph's main feeling, action, state, or implied meaning;
5. the hero's visual center of gravity and a natural offset, crop, or boundary crossing;
6. the source's overall color temperature and the color relationship most closely tied to its mood;
7. one concise English phrase that expresses the source without merely naming it.

Remove secondary texture, complex background description, small anatomy or construction detail, and realistic shading. Preserve every relationship needed to understand the source's meaning.

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

Draw with loose wax pastel

Reconstruct the hero with pale, matte wax-pastel strokes. Keep the main proportion, directional flow, characteristic pose, and defining features, but let the drawing remain simplified and openly handmade.

Use:

• irregular pressure and changing stroke width;
• blunt starts, broken edges, skipped paper, and short gaps;
• dry friction, crumbly pigment, wax drag, and coarse fiber catching color;
• overlapping strokes with slight color buildup at turns and contact points;
• a few broad rubbed areas for mass and a few loose lines for structure;
• minor hand inaccuracies that add sincerity without destroying recognition.

Use light values and restrained contrast. Let paper show through the subject. Avoid precise vector contours, smooth digital brushes, airbrush blending, photorealistic rendering, complete uniform coloring, polished children's-book characters, thick black outlines, or a crayon-filter effect applied to the photograph.

Build the horizontal paper field

Place one horizontally extending low-saturation paper-color field behind or beneath the hero on an off-white coarse-fiber handmade-paper ground. Derive its hue from the upper photograph's combined color atmosphere and emotion; do not use a fixed color.

The field is an active spatial and emotional support. Define exactly whether it behaves as ground, horizon, quiet pressure, shelter, pause, distance, water, shadow, wall, air, or another source-supported relation. It should clarify where the hero rests, moves, crosses, waits, or opens into space.

Keep the field simple and mostly horizontal. Let its paper edge, overlap, crop, or tonal difference establish a second sheet or printed layer without drawing a decorative border. Add restrained Risograph-like grain, slight paper misregistration, subtle fiber, and gentle age variation.

Do not turn the field into a generic rectangular banner, full background fill, multi-block layout, decorative stripe, landscape painting, or template title panel.

Compose through field, weight, and blank space

Balance three quantities: the horizontal field's height and length, the hero's scale and center of gravity, and the upper/lower quiet space around them.

Place the hero according to source posture and direction. It may be off-center, cropped, cross the field edge, extend above or below the field, or use a strong positive/negative shape. Boundary crossing must follow the hero's real movement, lean, gaze, growth, or structural continuation.

Keep one visual center and a calm eye path. Preserve large areas of quiet paper. Avoid mechanical centering, even margins, symmetrical decoration, many small objects, floating ornaments, and equal visual weight above and below the field.

Present the result as a flat paper artwork. Do not add a frame, wall, desk, tape, hands, notebook binding, pencils, stationery props, gallery mockup, or product packaging.

Translate a quiet source palette

Derive the lower palette from the upper photograph's combined color and emotion. Gently reduce saturation, clarify temperature, and organize the colors without erasing their source identity.

Use the off-white paper as the largest area, one low-saturation field color, one pale principal pastel family for the hero, and at most one subtle source-supported accent. Allow same-family wax buildup and paper show-through to create depth.

Keep the result quiet, gentle, warm or cool according to the photo, vintage through physical material, and restrained. Avoid fixed beige, dusty pink, sage, or blue formulas; muddy gray, yellowed paper, heavy sepia, overly dark pastel, neon color, candy color, or many equal accents.

Handwrite the emotional line

Derive one short English phrase from the source's feeling, action, state, relationship, or metaphor. Keep it soft, concise, and slightly open-ended rather than explanatory.

Render it in loose, imperfect handwriting. Follow a field edge, hero direction, or shaped blank area. It may lightly cross, misalign with, or pass beyond the field and contour while remaining legible. Make it feel drawn in the same session as the image.

Do not use direct object labels, fixed slogans, motivational quotes, long captions, years, issue numbers, unsupported facts, pseudo-language, logos, brands, signatures, 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% wax-pastel split;
2. the upper-half preservation invariants, restrained color correction, crop, and any safe background extension;
3. the lower hero, source feeling or proposition, silhouette, posture, proportion, direction, relationship, and three to six defining features;
4. the deleted details and the exact broad masses, loose contours, broken passages, and paper-show-through that replace them;
5. the wax-pastel pressure, friction, gaps, crumbs, overlaps, buildup, and imperfect hand behavior;
6. the horizontal field's exact source-derived hue, size, position, paper edge, spatial/emotional role, and relationship to the hero;
7. the hero's offset, crop, boundary crossing, center of gravity, positive/negative shapes, eye path, and surrounding blank-space proportions;
8. the off-white coarse paper, second-layer paper relation, subtle age, fiber, Risograph grain, and restrained misregistration;
9. the exact English phrase and its field-, contour-, direction-, or blank-space-aware handwritten placement;
10. hard exclusions: no multi-photo layout, no altered or redrawn upper subject, no approximate split, no realistic lower rendering, no smooth digital pastel, no vector contour, no thick black outline, no cartoon, no generic color banner, no multi-block decoration, no fixed palette, no dirty aging, no scrapbook or stationery props, no logo, and no watermark.

Use concrete stroke, paper, field, proportion, and source-relationship language rather than relying on adjectives such as “premium,” “relaxed,” “gentle,” or “vintage.”

Inspect and correct

Review every result at full size and thumbnail size. Verify the exact split, truthful upper photography, immediate lower recognition, loose wax friction, restrained detail, one meaningful horizontal field, source-derived color, balanced blank space, double-paper tactility, and integrated English handwriting.

If the drawing becomes polished or cartoon-like, break contours, vary pressure, expose paper, and remove detail. If the field looks like a generic banner, give it a precise spatial or emotional relationship to the hero. If the composition feels templated, recalculate field proportion, hero offset, crop, and crossing from the source. If color feels fixed or muddy, return to the upper photo's actual temperature and most meaningful hue relationship. If it resembles a scrapbook, remove props, borders, tape, and decorative marks. Regenerate with one targeted correction when needed.