---
title: "Mixed Media Portrait Illustration"
contributor: "@senoldak"
tags: #general, #senoldak
---

{
  "subject": {
    "description": "A portrait of a man with short, dark, textured hair, looking slightly upward. He wears thick-framed, vibrant orange glasses. The face is rendered with black ink-style cross-hatching directly over a newspaper background.",
    "count": 1,
    "orientation": "front-facing",
    "pose_or_state": "static, head tilted slightly up",
    "expression": "neutral, contemplative"
  },
  "scale_and_proportion": {
    "subject_to_frame_ratio": "Subject occupies ~75% of the frame height",
    "proportions": "locked to reference",
    "negative_space": "Moderate, occupied by paint splatters and newspaper text"
  },
  "composition": {
    "shot_type": "close-up portrait",
    "camera_angle": "eye-level, looking slightly up",
    "framing": "centered",
    "symmetry": "Face is centered and mostly symmetrical; background splatters are asymmetrical",
    "background": "Aged, yellowed vintage newspaper with columns of text and small faded images, layered with large blue and orange paint splatters and drips",
    "depth_of_field": "flat (2D mixed media style)"
  },
  "temporal_context": {
    "era": "Contemporary mixed media art with mid-century vintage newspaper and glasses style",
    "modern_elements": false,
    "retro_stylization": true,
    "trend_influence": false
  },
  "style": {
    "visual_type": "Mixed media illustration",
    "realism_level": "maximum for the specified art style",
    "art_style": "Pen and ink sketch over newspaper collage",
    "stylization": "Literal reproduction of the specific mixed media style",
    "interpretation": "literal reproduction only"
  },
  "lighting": {
    "setup_type": "Simulated in the sketch",
    "light_direction": "Frontal/top-down, defined by shadows under the jaw, nose, and brow",
    "light_quality": "High contrast rendering",
    "contrast": "high (black ink against light paper)",
    "shadow_behavior": "rendered through hatching and solid black areas",
    "color_temperature": "warm overall due to paper, with cool blue accents",
    "lighting_variation": "none"
  },
  "materials": {
    "primary_materials": [
      "yellowed vintage newspaper",
      "black ink / charcoal",
      "vibrant blue and orange paint (acrylic or spray paint look)"
    ],
    "surface_finish": "matte paper and ink",
    "light_reflection": "minimal, only visible as highlights on the glasses frames and in the pupils",
    "material_accuracy": "exact"
  },
  "color_palette": {
    "dominant_colors": [
      "Sepia/Cream (newspaper)",
      "Black (ink lines)",
      "Vibrant Orange (glasses and splatters)",
      "Bright Blue (splatters)"
    ],
    "saturation": "High in orange and blue; low/natural in the newspaper background",
    "contrast_level": "High (chromatic and tonal contrast)",
    "color_shift": false
  },
  "texture_and_detail": {
    "surface_detail": "Fine newsprint texture, visible ink lines, paint drip edges",
    "grain_noise": "paper grain texture preserved",
    "micro_details": "Text on newspaper remains visible through the facial features",
    "sharpness": "sharp ink lines and crisp paint edges"
  },
  "camera_render_settings": {
    "lens_equivalent": "50mm look",
    "perspective_distortion": "none",
    "aperture_look": "N/A (flat illustration)",
    "resolution": "high",
    "render_quality": "clean, no digital compression artifacts"
  },
  "constraints": {
    "no_additional_objects": true,
    "no_reframing": true,
    "no_crop": true,
    "no_stylization": true,
    "no_artistic_license": true,
    "no_text": false,
    "no_watermark": true,
    "no_effects": true,
    "no_dramatic_lighting": true,
    "no_color_grading": true
  },
  "iteration_instruction": {
    "compare_to_reference": true,
    "fix_geometry_first": true,
    "then_fix_composition": true,
    "then_fix_lighting": true,
    "then_fix_color": true,
    "ignore_aesthetic_improvements": true
  },
  "negative_prompt": [
    "creative",
    "cinematic",
    "artistic",
    "stylized",
    "illustration (different from reference)",
    "abstract",
    "dramatic",
    "wide-angle",
    "fisheye",
    "exaggeration",
    "reinterpretation",
    "extra elements",
    "modernized",
    "retro look (different from reference)",
    "color grading",
    "AI artifacts",
    "blur",
    "depth of field"
  ]
}
