Create an ink brush illustration portrait.
Subject: a young woman from the upper chest up, drawn in black ink on warm tan toned paper. Dark
shoulder-length hair, windblown and full, drawn in loose sweeping brush strokes with many
individual strands flicked out beyond the mass. The face is rendered in fine confident pen
linework with almost no shading, the bare paper reading as her skin — sharp winged eyeliner, long
lashes, thick dark brows, a fine nose line, full lips with a highlight left as unmarked paper. She
wears a black off-shoulder garment sitting along the shoulder line, drawn as a broad solid black
mass with dry-brush streaks running through it.
Action: head tilted 20 degrees to her right and turned back toward the lens, chin lifted, direct
steady gaze into the lens from under heavy lids, lips slightly parted, expression cool and
composed.
Setting: a plain flat toned paper field with no objects, gradient or texture beyond the paper
grain, and a scatter of loose ink spatter, blots and short drips breaking the lower left corner.
Visual style: pen and brush ink illustration — fine controlled linework on the face, broad loaded
brush strokes for the hair and garment, visible dry-brush streaks where the brush ran out, hard
spatter and round blots at the edges. Exactly two tones: black ink and bare paper. No colour, no
grey wash, no photographic rendering.
Composition: vertical frame, subject centred and filling most of the frame, head occupying the
upper half, cropped at the upper chest, the black garment mass filling the lower left, ink spatter
breaking the lower left corner.
Lighting: none — form is described entirely by line weight and solid black shapes, never by
modelled light and shadow.
Text inside: none.
Constraints: never render photoreal, three-dimensional or digitally smooth, never add colour or a
third tone, never shade the skin with grey wash — the bare paper is the skin, never neaten the hair
into a solid uniform shape, never remove the dry-brush texture, spatter or blots, never close the
lips, never look away from the lens, never crop below the upper chest, never add jewellery, props
or any background object.
Output: 9:16 vertical.
