GPT Image Prompt
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How to useCopy this prompt and paste it into ChatGPT, Gemini, Nano Banana, or your favorite AI image tool. Adjust details if needed.
Create a vertical 9:16 fine-art digital illustration of an original, non-identifiable male-presenting humanoid character shown in an intense extreme close-up. The composition is dominated by the face, cropped tightly around the forehead, eyes, nose, mouth and upper shoulders, with the head angled slightly downward and toward the viewer.
The character has a broad, heavy facial structure with a pronounced brow ridge, deep-set narrow eyes, a strong nose, thick expressive lips and a sharp, unsettling grin showing several teeth. The expression should feel sinister, confident and menacing rather than realistic or photorealistic. Preserve the asymmetrical intensity of the eyes and the dramatic furrowed brow. Do not reproduce any recognizable real person or specific copyrighted character likeness.
Visual medium: high-detail hand-drawn digital illustration with graphite/ink-like linework, dense cross-hatching, scratchy contour strokes and selective muted painterly shading. Keep the drawing visibly illustrative rather than photographic. Use fine black and dark-brown linework over a desaturated gray facial base, with restrained dark-red accents concentrated around the eyes, nose, mouth and shadow transitions.
Palette roles: desaturated gray skin #A7AAAB, charcoal linework #242526, near-black background and clothing #171919, muted brown-black shading #403533, dark crimson accent #6E1F1F, pale tooth highlights #D8D6CB and off-white highlight areas #E5E4DE. Keep saturation controlled, with crimson used only as a threatening accent.
Lighting: dramatic directional light from the upper-right/front-right, producing a bright plane across the right side of the forehead, cheek and nose while the left side falls into deep charcoal shadow. Maintain hard-to-medium shadow transitions, strong eye highlights, subtle reflected light in the darker planes and crisp separation between face and background. Preserve the graphic contrast without blown highlights.
Composition: extreme close-up portrait, vertical framing, face filling most of the canvas, eyes placed around the upper-middle region, mouth in the lower-middle region, with portions of hair and dark clothing entering from the edges. Keep a small amount of dark negative space around the outer silhouette. Use a slightly low, intimate viewpoint and a short-telephoto portrait perspective equivalent to an approximately 85mm look, while retaining the hand-drawn aesthetic.
Hair: dark, roughly textured hair with loose strands and irregular ink strokes framing the forehead and temples. Clothing: dark high-collar garment visible only around the lower and side edges, rendered with dense sketch shading.
Preserve the original visual hierarchy: intense eyes, furrowed brow, strong nose, unsettling grin, monochrome gray-black drawing language, selective crimson accents, dense cross-hatching, asymmetric shadowing, tight portrait crop and dark atmospheric background.
Remove any signature, watermark, artist mark, logo, text or unrelated graphic. Avoid photorealism, anime-specific character identity, recognizable existing character likeness, smooth vector rendering, clean 3D CGI, glossy skin, excessive color, cheerful expression, soft beauty lighting, generic portrait posing, duplicated facial features, malformed eyes, extra teeth, distorted anatomy or accidental typography.