Using my uploaded reference photo as the primary face reference, keep the person’s identity 100% identical to the original image: same facial features, bone structure, skin tone, gender, perceived age, hairstyle shape and overall facial proportions, with no age-regression or aging. Preserve the exact facial expression, nose, eyes, lips, jawline and any unique marks like moles, freckles, scars or skin texture, as if it were the same person captured again. Transform this portrait into a traditional ink drawing on translucent tracing paper (vegetal paper), created entirely with black India ink lines of many different thicknesses. The whole face and upper shoulders should be built only from linework: bold contour lines, medium structural lines and very fine inner-detail lines, clearly showing deliberate line weight variation to describe depth, form and shadow. The overall aesthetic is that of an authorial illustration or art-school ink study, where the scanned texture of the tracing paper is subtly visible behind the lines.
Line style, material and detail
Simulate black India ink (nanquim) on slightly off‑white, semi‑translucent tracing paper, with a delicate paper grain and a faint sense of transparency around the edges. Use strong, heavier lines to define the outer contour of the head, jawline and main shadow shapes, medium-weight lines for internal structure such as cheekbones, nose bridge and hair masses, and ultra‑fine lines and hatching for skin texture, wrinkles and subtle value transitions. Include controlled imperfections typical of traditional inking: slight line wobble in some strokes, tiny ink accumulations at the start or end of lines, small overlaps at intersections, but still clean and intentional overall, like a high‑level illustration scan rather than a messy sketch. Shadows should be built with dense parallel hatching, cross‑hatching and delicate scribble lines, never with flat black fills. Keep the portrait monochrome black‑on‑paper; no color.
Lighting
Suggest a soft, directional studio-like lighting by the way line weight and hatching density are used: thicker, darker nests of lines on the shadow side of the face and under the chin, lighter, more open hatching on the lit side. Highlights should be indicated by areas with very few or no lines at all, letting the tracing paper tone show through as “white,” especially on the forehead, nose bridge, cheekbones and the top of the lips.
Camera, lens and composition
Portrait framing with the subject centered, cropped from the chest or shoulders up, keeping the face large in the frame so the different line thicknesses are clearly visible. Simulate a neutral portrait lens equivalent (around 85 mm) to keep natural proportions and avoid distortion, as if this were a photo later translated into ink on tracing paper. The final output should look like a high‑resolution scan of a traditional ink drawing on vegetal paper laid flat, with clean margins and no extra elements around the portrait.
Negative prompt
different person, altered identity, changed gender, younger or older face, slimmed or widened face, changed nose, eyes, lips or jawline, different skin tone, different hairstyle, missing or altered moles, freckles or scars, colored inks, markers, watercolor, digital painting, airbrushed shading, flat vector lines, uniform line weight, messy scribbles, heavy solid black fills, grayscale wash, pencil sketch look, 3D rendering, metallic surfaces, comic-book color, halftone dots, low resolution, blurry scan, pixelation, noisy background, text, logos, watermarks, frames, ruled paper, canvas texture.