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Leather and White Knit

Leather and White Knit. 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 male portrait drawing, Vienna c. 1914, in the manner of his clothed half-length portraits of men. A young adult man with a short faded haircut, moustache and small goatee, wearing dark rectangular sunglasses with opaque black lenses, head turned in profile to the side, both hands raised gripping the open lapels of his jacket, a metal watch and a chain bracelet at the wrists. Fully clothed in a black leather jacket with a grey hood beneath and a ribbed white knit sweater; non-sexual, decorous, sober portrait study. Nervous angular broken black ink contour line describing the jaw, neck, shoulders, forearms and both gripping hands with exaggerated bony knuckles and splayed tendons, drawn with wiry precision and deliberate breaks in the line. Render the black leather jacket as a dense flat black-grey graphic mass with hard faceted folds, set directly against the white knit which is left as almost bare cream paper described only by a few vertical ribbed lines, creating a strong tonal split. The sunglasses as two hard flat black rectangles. Thin patchy gouache washes on the face, neck and hands in warm ochre and umber with cold green and dull brick red accents at the cheek, jaw and knuckles. Dark hair as an angular faceted mass. Remove the tree and woodland background entirely; large areas of untouched cream paper as the ground, mannered elongated forearms, tense composed expression carried in the mouth and hands, 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: 0B4giLSyBFhTCmrfIjwz
generated: 2026-08-07

NOTE

image2image from OpenArt history 0B4giLSyBFhTCmrfIjwz

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