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Arms Folded, Plaid

Arms Folded, Plaid. A clothed portrait study after Schiele: nervous broken contour, patchy gouache wash, and large areas of bare paper left as the ground.

How this was made

This piece began with a written instruction alone, with no photograph. The instruction is kept, so the record is complete rather than flattering.

THE PROMPT AND THE SETTINGS

PROMPT

POSITIVE:
Repaint this photograph as an Egon Schiele full-length standing figure drawing, Vienna c. 1915, in the manner of his clothed portrait studies with patterned garments. An adult woman with long dark wavy hair, standing full length and facing the viewer, arms folded across her chest, weight on one leg with the other knee slightly bent, black lace-up boots. Fully clothed and modestly covered: a black and cream plaid flannel shirt worn properly over both shoulders and fastened, layered over a black top, with high-waisted pale blue jeans. Non-sexual, decorous, sober clothed figure study, no nudity, no bare shoulders, no slipped or off-the-shoulder clothing, no suggestive emphasis. Nervous angular broken black ink contour line describing the jaw, neck, shoulders, the folded arms, the hands with bony elongated fingers, the hips and the long legs, drawn with wiry precision and deliberate breaks in the line. Render the plaid as a bold flat hand-drawn irregular check in black ink over bare cream paper, with bands of varying width that wobble, thicken and break as they follow the fold of the sleeve, graphic rather than photographic. Render the pale jeans almost entirely on line weight with only a faint cold slate-blue wash in the fold shadows at the knee and hip. Long dark hair as heavy angular faceted masses. Thin patchy gouache washes on the face and hands in muted ochre and dull brick red with cold green accents at the cheek and knuckles. Remove the wall, foliage and building entirely; large areas of untouched cream paper as the ground, mannered elongated limbs, tense composed expression, raw and expressive.

NEGATIVE:
(none)

SETTINGS

engine: openart
model: gpt-image-2
mode: image2image
aspect: 2:3
resolution: 1344x2016
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autoEnhancePrompt: false
quality: -
outputFormat: png
source-id: T2KdvrTagqDJPFezqXUO
generated: 2026-08-07

NOTE

image2image from OpenArt history T2KdvrTagqDJPFezqXUO

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