Transform the uploaded photograph into a brush-painted, semi-realistic character illustration with a refined concept-art finish.

Transform the uploaded photograph into a brush-painted, semi-realistic character illustration with a refined concept-art finish.

REFERENCE PRESERVATION:
Use the source photo as the sole reference for identity and composition. Preserve recognizable facial features, facial proportions, age, expression, gaze, hairstyle, pose, hands, props, clothing, camera angle, framing, and aspect ratio. Retain the original number of people and objects.

PAINTING STYLE:
Use visible directional brushstrokes and gently simplified facial planes. Describe the jaw and brow through painted light and shadow without reshaping them. Render hair as sculpted, flowing masses that follow the original hairline, volume, and silhouette rather than individual strands.

BRUSHWORK AND TEXTURE:
Use softly blended but visible strokes on skin, crisp palette-knife accents along fabric folds, and loose, broader strokes in the background. Keep the face and important props clearly resolved. Add subtle canvas grain and dry-brush texture along selected edges; avoid a uniform texture overlay.

COLOR AND LIGHT:
Use muted, rich colors inspired by peach #E8A88C, brick red #C4443A, slate blue #3E5C8A, dark brown #2A2420, and warm beige #D9CBB8. Treat these as grading accents, preserving the subject’s underlying skin tone and recognizable object colors. Create warm skin highlights with restrained flushed cheeks against a cooler background. Preserve the source lighting direction and coherent shadows.

CONSTRAINTS:
The result must read as an intentional painting, not a photograph with a filter. Avoid photographic pores, plastic or excessively airbrushed skin, smooth vector shading, exaggerated facial anatomy, distorted hands, missing props, added text, logos, orwatermarks.