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Jacket Tied at the Waist

Jacket Tied at the Waist. 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 photograph and a written instruction. Both are 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. An adult woman with long brown hair wearing small round dark sunglasses, standing full length with both arms raised and both hands lifted to the back of her head, elbows angled out, weight on one leg with the other knee turned inward, black low sneakers. Fully clothed in a loose oversized short-sleeved t-shirt with a dark printed rectangular graphic on the chest, black shorts, and a denim jacket tied by its sleeves around her waist with the body of the jacket hanging down. Non-sexual, decorous, sober clothed figure study, no nudity, no suggestive emphasis. Nervous angular broken black ink contour line describing the jaw, neck, shoulders, both raised arms, the hands with bony elongated splayed fingers, the hips and legs, drawn with wiry precision and deliberate breaks in the line. Render the t-shirt as flat angular drapery with the chest graphic as a loose hand-drawn dark rectangle, not a reproduced photograph. Render the tied denim jacket as hard faceted angular drapery planes in muted slate blue with the knot and hanging sleeves as bold graphic shapes. The sunglasses as two small hard dark circles. Thin patchy gouache and watercolour washes in muted ochre, dull brick red, olive and cold grey, with blotchy reddish and greenish accents at the cheeks, knees and knuckles, leaving large areas of untouched cream paper as the ground. Remove the street, cars, pavement markings and all background figures entirely; empty cream paper background, mannered elongated limbs, tense alert expression, raw and expressive.

NEGATIVE:
(none)

SETTINGS

engine: openart
model: gpt-image-2
mode: image2image
aspect: 2:3
resolution: 1344x2016
count: 1
autoEnhancePrompt: false
quality: -
outputFormat: png
source-id: u6LtKdYGFCWkGatv6gBA
generated: 2026-08-07

NOTE

image2image from OpenArt history u6LtKdYGFCWkGatv6gBA

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