The Unflattering Likeness

PROMPT

POSITIVE:
Redraw the reference figure as an Edo-period Japanese woodblock portrait print in the manner of Toshusai Sharaku. Half-length composition, the figure cut at roughly the waist and filling most of the sheet, turned away with the head twisted sharply back over the shoulder toward the viewer, exactly as in the reference. Deep grey-black mica-dusted ground behind the figure, faintly glittering, with the setting removed entirely - no architecture, no rope, no hanging paper streamers, no foliage. Everything drawn with a firm black keyblock outline of even weight over flat unmodulated colour blocks, no photographic shading anywhere. The face is treated with Sharaku's psychological exaggeration: features pushed and stretched, the jaw and nose enlarged, the eyes narrowed and set at a strong slant, the small mouth pursed hard, the brows heavy - unflattering, arresting, alive. Flat unprinted paper-white skin with a single fine outline, no modelling. Black hair as one solid glossy ink mass with a few sharp separated strands and a small ornament at the temple. The pale kimono is a flat unshaded field of warm oyster grey scattered with tiny stylised blossom motifs; the sash is flat deep maroon and burnt orange with a small repeating pattern. Visible woodgrain, hand-printed paper texture, slight registration offset, muted period pigments. No text, no seal, no cartouche, no signature, no border.

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: gtLD1pgiqwjeQBlfJUqO
generated: 2026-08-15

NOTE

image2image from OpenArt history gtLD1pgiqwjeQBlfJUqO