A detailed prompt turns your photo into a bold marker-pen portrait

xiaohu · x · 2026-09-08

A complete image-generation prompt that redraws a user's uploaded photo as a bold marker-pen portrait, blending Matisse's flat-color simplification with David Shrigley-style handwritten humor. It specifies identifying the person's most distinctive features first (face shape, hairline, pose, clothing), then composing around them, preserving identity while completely reorganizing color, strokes, and space — explicitly not a photo filter but a painterly reinterpretation. Copy-paste ready for image models.

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