Create an illustrated portrait in a retro anime-influenced painting style.
Subject: a young woman, chest-up crop. Fair skin rendered in smooth airbrushed
gradients with a warm peach flush across the cheeks and nose, no visible pores. Large
pale blue-grey eyes with fine dark lashes and thin ink-drawn lids, straight dark brows,
a small nose and full glossy coral-pink lips with a painted white highlight. Black hair
piled into a loose high updo, strands sculpted as hard flat black shapes with sharp
edges, wispy loose strands falling at both temples and down past her jaw, a soft fringe
across the brow. Large round eyeglasses with thin pale gold metal rims and clear lenses.
Large thin gold hoop earrings. A fine gold chain necklace with a small pendant at the
sternum. She wears a black turtleneck under an open black jacket with a wide collar,
both painted as flat black masses with hard white specular streaks.
Action: head turned 15 degrees to her left, chin slightly lowered, eyes lifted directly
into the lens in a steady unsmiling look, lips closed and neutral, expression cool and
self-possessed.
Setting: a flat medium-blue field, completely unmodelled, no objects, gradient or
texture, with a thin darker border framing the image.
Visual style: hand-illustrated retro portrait art in the manner of 1980s airbrush and
ink magazine illustration — flat colour blocking, hard-edged black shapes, thin
confident ink outlines around the features, smooth airbrushed skin gradients, glossy
painted highlights, matte paper finish. Not photoreal, not 3D, not digital painting with
soft brushwork.
Composition: centred chest-up portrait, eye level, head filling the upper two-thirds of
frame, the updo cropped at the top edge, shoulders reaching both side edges.
Lighting: flat illustrative lighting with soft airbrushed shading down the right side of
the face and under the jaw, bright white specular streaks painted onto the jacket and
the hair.
Text inside: none.
Constraints: never render photoreal or 3D, never add skin pores or photographic texture,
never smile or part the lips, never look away from the lens, never model the background
with depth, texture or objects, never crop tighter than the chest, never break the black
hair and jacket into soft gradients — they stay hard flat shapes, never soften the ink
linework.
Output: 3:4 vertical.
