Ink / Chinese Style

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Korean Hanok Watercolor Sketch
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Traditional Korean hanok village street, watercolor architectural sketch, urban sketching masterpiece, hand-drawn ink lines with loose watercolor washes, detailed curved tiled rooftops, wooden doors and traditional architecture, soft earthy tones, beige, warm brown, gray slate roofs, subtle splatter effects, textured watercolor paper background, minimalist composition, clean white negative space, atmospheric perspective, delicate linework, travel sketchbook illustration, plein air painting style, highly detailed architecture, soft morning light, realistic proportions, elegant brush strokes, ink and wash technique, professional architectural rendering, peaceful historic alleyway, reflections on wet stone pavement, fine pen sketch details, muted color palette, artistic watercolor journal, East Asian heritage architecture, ultra detailed, high quality, watercolor and ink illustration.

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Stylish Nobunaga Ukiyo-e Portrait
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Create a vertical 2:3 Japanese ukiyo-e inspired anime illustration of Oda Nobunaga as a stylish mature warlord, shown from the waist up in a dignified three-quarter portrait. He has a tall messy black topknot with loose strands and a gold hair ornament, one visible ear, and his face is intentionally obscured by a centered opaque tan rectangle covering the full facial area from forehead to chin. Dress him in ornate Sengoku-era armor and layered kimono: a high black collar with gold trim, dark navy and black lamellar chest armor with red cords, two large gold chrysanthemum-like crests on the chest, red brocade shoulder panels with floral patterns, cream sleeves with purple and gold cloud motifs, dangling red tassels, and two decorated sword hilts crossing at the lower front. The background is parchment cream with an orange-red setting sun disk behind the figure, fine black ink landscape lines, stylized white cloud streaks, purple-gray ink wash clouds, halftone dot textures, and a small Japanese castle in the lower left distance. Frame the composition with thick black Art Nouveau-style rounded corner borders and spiral ornaments: exactly 6 prominent black spiral/circle ornaments, with 2 at the upper left, 2 at the upper right, and 2 at the lower corners. Use detailed linework, muted antique colors, gold accents, print texture, manga-meets-traditional-Japanese-poster aesthetics, and dramatic heroic posture. Add a small signature and date in the lower right reading June 2, 2026 and Oyagi. No other text, no watermark, keep the central tan face-cover rectangle perfectly flat and untextured.

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Expressive Ink Manuscript Portrait
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Use the uploaded photo as the primary face reference. Preserve the person's exact facial structure, skin tone, beard shape, nose, eyes, expression, likeness, and proportions from the reference image. Create a dramatic, high-impact side-profile portrait in an expressive ink sketch and mixed-media illustration style. The man should feel intense, chaotic, and emotionally charged, with his face and upper body layered in cryptic handwritten text, abstract symbols, and glyph-like marks that wrap around the facial contours, suggesting inner turmoil and hidden meaning. Dress him in a dark abstract jacket built from heavy textured strokes, sharp angular linework, vibrant ink accents, fine pen details, aggressive brush marks, splashes, and controlled smears. The visual language should feel raw, rebellious, bold, experimental, and editorial, blending precise illustration with conceptual art. Use a pale aged-parchment background with subtle grain, faded paper texture, delicate linework, ink stains, and the feeling of an old manuscript or forgotten document. Keep the composition high contrast, expressive, intense, and artistically precise.

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Classic Engraved Portrait Illustration
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Black and white engraved portrait illustration of a person. Classic woodcut / linocut engraving style, high-contrast black ink on textured off-white paper. Cross-hatching and line shading for depth and shadow, strong ink shadows under chin and around hair, bold contour lines, traditional printmaking aesthetic. Centered portrait, no body visible, minimal composition, clean negative space, vintage editorial illustration style, ultra-detailed linework, sharp crisp ink strokes, professional vector-ready engraving, monochrome palette, dramatic contrast. Negative Prompt: color, watercolor, soft shading, blurred lines, low contrast, realistic photography, 3D render, anime, cartoon, messy sketch, thick uneven strokes, background objects, noisy texture, pixelated, distorted face, extra eyes, extra ears, bad anatomy, modern digital painting, glossy skin, overexposed highlights

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Seoul Watercolor Travel Poster
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Charming Seoul travel poster in delicate watercolor and ink sketch style, peaceful Korean urban lifestyle scene, minimalist white background with elegant typography reading “SEOUL”, soft pastel watercolor washes, fine architectural linework, cozy atmosphere, traditional and modern Seoul blending together, tree-lined streets, warm golden-hour lighting, people strolling, cafés, bookstores, bakeries, bicycles, lush greenery, Korean aesthetic, urban sketchbook art, clean composition with generous negative space, light summer mood, textured watercolor paper, Studio Ghibli-inspired tranquility, masterpiece, ultra detailed, 8k

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Oriental Gongbi Style Pet Portrait
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Please generate a set of 9 individual 'Pet Gongbi Portrait' photos based on the clear pet photo I uploaded. Each image should be an independent work, uniformly in a 3:4 vertical composition. No collages, no nine-grid grids, no poster layouts. Core Requirements: The original pet's real identity characteristics must be clearly preserved, including animal species, breed, body shape, face shape, eyes, nose, mouth, ears, coat color, patterns, fur texture, tail shape, temperament, and body proportions. All 9 photos must look like the same pet. Do not change the breed, coat color, or draw the animal structure incorrectly; it must not become an unfamiliar pet or be overly anthropomorphized. Overall Style: Traditional Eastern Gongbi pet portrait, Song Dynasty painting temperament, academy-style Gongbi, ink and color on silk, delicate line drawing, elegant mineral colors, ample white space, and a clean, quiet scene. Use off-white rice paper or silk texture for the background with a slight paper grain. The pet can retain some realistic fur texture, but the overall style needs to integrate into the Gongbi painting style, like a high-end pet portrait painting. Visual Elements: Traditional Chinese painting elements can be added, such as: cloud patterns, mountains and rocks, flower branches, fruit trees, vines, railings, classic wooden tables, round fans, butterflies, bees, ladybugs, lotus leaves, peaches, lychees, hydrangeas, plum blossoms, bamboo leaves, plantain leaves, fireworks, auspicious clouds, etc. Theme and Pose for each image: 1. Auspicious Cloud Immortal Pet: The pet stands in the mist with auspicious clouds and light ink distant mountains, with a lively temperament. 2. Looking Back Under Flowers: The pet looks back under a flower branch, with large white space, gentle and quiet. 3. Orchard Rest: The pet is next to peaches, lychees, or a fruit basket, cute but high-end. 4. Summer Courtyard: The pet is near a railing or wooden table, with flowers, grass, and small insects in the background. 5. Plantain Shade: The pet is under large plantain leaves, with natural movements and a cool atmosphere. 6. Butterfly Shadow Play: The pet looks at a butterfly or a small insect, with a curious expression. 7. Falling Petals: The pet sits in a rain of petals, with a light atmosphere. 8. Ancient Painting White Space: Minimalist composition, large areas of blank space, with the pet located at the bottom or side of the screen. 9. Auspicious Beast Portrait: The pet has a slight sense of an Eastern mythical beast, but must maintain its original real pet characteristics and not become a fantasy animal. Style Details: Delicate lines, warm colors, and a sense of ancient painting mounting. A small inscription and a red seal can be added to one side of the image, but no real readable text or garbled large characters should appear. The composition should have high-end white space, not too full, no modern studio backgrounds, no cartoonish feel, no oil painting feel, no cyberpunk, no exaggerated expressions, and no complex clothing. Final Effect: It looks like a set of Eastern Gongbi portraits created specifically for this pet, preserving both the pet's real cuteness and recognizability while having the aesthetic of a classical painting scroll.

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Shinsengumi Samurai Poster
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Create a dramatic vertical portrait of a single Japanese samurai, inspired by the late Edo period Shinsengumi aesthetic, standing front-facing in a dark painterly mixed-media composition. The subject is a stern adult male warrior with messy black hair tied in a high topknot with loose strands, wearing a weathered deep indigo blue haori over layered black kimono robes and a gray hakama. Add the Shinsengumi-style white mountain-triangle pattern around both sleeve cuffs and a small circular crest on the chest. He carries exactly two swords at his waist: one longer katana angled down to the left with a wrapped handle, and one shorter sword tucked vertically near the center of the obi; his right hand grips near the sword at his side while his left hand hangs tense. Use gritty realistic digital painting with ink splatters, distressed paper texture, dramatic chiaroscuro lighting, and gold-leaf accents. Behind him, place a large pale circular moon or brush-painted disk, with exactly two background scenic elements: a misty Japanese castle on the left and a dark pine tree silhouette on the right. Surround the portrait with bold black brush strokes, scattered ink stains, rough beige parchment, and vertical patches of aged metallic gold. Keep the palette black, charcoal, parchment beige, antique gold, indigo blue, and muted gray. The face may be partly shadowed but should remain a realistic samurai portrait. Add a small elegant signature area in the bottom right containing exactly two text elements: May 31, 2026 above Oyagi in cursive script. Vertical 2:3 poster composition, cinematic, high detail, no modern objects, no extra people, no watermark beyond the requested signature.

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Hand-Drawn Linear Sketch Art
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Generate a paper-based line drawing visual work based on a specific theme. The image is first established by extremely fine, slightly shaky hand-drawn lines to build space, subject outline, structural transitions, paths, and scale relationships. Then, a few high-purity color surfaces are introduced only to the most critical recognition planes, connection nodes, emotional pauses, and centers of gravity; color is not a full fill but acts as precise annotations to edit attention. The overall visual area is dominated by warm off-white paper and black fine lines. Paper texture, tiny spots, and a slight scan feel should be clearly present. Ample white space is reserved above or around to make the subject appear as if observed in a page of a travel manuscript. Visual weight is concentrated in the middle or lower-middle part, maintaining breathable distance around the subject. The composition consists of a clear anchor, a low-density environment layer, and a few colored nodes. The core object maintains recognizable structural lines, outlines, local hatching, and compressed details. Details gather along edges, openings, corners, and movement paths. Volume and shadows are achieved through fine hatching and varying line density. Background appears as a low-density line-art memory layer. Added tiny figures or symbols serve as scale 'noise' to give a sense of life and usage. If text is needed, use narrow, restrained annotation-style fonts. The final surface shows the finish of pen line drawing, colored pencil, or light ink overlay, with quiet, open, manual textures and slight perspective errors. Theme: Close-up of the Great Hall of the People Aspect Ratio: 1:2 Usage: Mobile wallpaper

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Vintage Wuhan Hot Dry Noodles Poster
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Goal: Create a vintage Chinese food-and-city tourism poster for Wuhan and hot dry noodles, combining local landmarks, regional flavor, and retro print texture. Canvas: Vertical poster, 4:5 aspect ratio, warm sepia and dark teal palette, weathered halftone paper grain, ink-wash edges, distressed screen-print look, dramatic food photography mixed with illustrated architectural collage. Layout: Large cream-white Chinese brush calligraphy dominates the upper left reading “武汉 你好”, with the small English subtitle “HELLO WUHAN” below it. The upper right contains a large ornate landmark tower, the Yellow Crane Tower, rendered in golden-brown detail with layered eaves, smoke and mist around its base. Behind it is a faded Wuhan skyline with a long steel bridge crossing the middle left, a riverfront city silhouette, a clock-tower-style historic building on the right, and a thin modern TV tower in the distance. The bottom half is dominated by one large porcelain bowl of noodles in the foreground, cropped close and centered slightly right, steaming and glossy. Discrete visible elements to include: exactly 1 main food bowl; exactly 1 signature dish inside it, hot dry noodles with thick noodles, sesame paste sheen, chili oil, diced pickled vegetables, sesame seeds, and chopped green onions; exactly 5 major city/landmark background elements: Yellow Crane Tower, Yangtze River bridge, distant skyline, TV tower, and historic clock tower; exactly 1 small red seal stamp near the central title; exactly 1 small red flag on the right-side tower; exactly 3 small foreground garnish/scatter details near the bottom edge: scallion pieces, sesame seeds, and a pair of chopsticks partly visible at the lower right. Text content: Top left small title “一城一菜” with tiny English “ONE CITY ONE DISH”. Main oversized brush text “武汉 你好”. Red seal text “汉味”. Right vertical Chinese text “热干面” with small vertical English “HOT DRY NOODLES”. Handwritten-style left slogan “芝麻浓香里 藏着武汉清晨”. Bottom left large title “江城面记”, small romanization “JIANGCHENG MIANJI”, and bottom tagline “一城一味 · 一面一故事” with tiny English “ONE CITY, ONE TASTE / ONE BOWL, ONE STORY”. Add decorative blue Chinese writing around the inside rim of the bowl, including “江城面记”. Visual style: Bold travel-poster composition, retro Chinese advertising poster, high-detail food realism in the foreground, painterly architectural background, rough beige paper texture, navy-blue sky wash, cream calligraphy, deep red accents, burnt orange highlights, cinematic contrast, authentic regional souvenir packaging aesthetic. Constraints: Keep all visible text legible and placed as described. Do not add extra dishes, people, logos, QR codes, modern UI elements, or watermarks. Maintain a nostalgic cultural food poster feel suitable for restaurant branding, culinary tourism, and city souvenir packaging.

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GitHub README Ancient Social Feed
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Goal: Create a wide desktop screenshot of a GitHub repository README preview in dark mode, showing a design example for an ancient Chinese social media feed UI. Canvas: 1200×612 px horizontal screenshot, dark navy GitHub interface, cropped like a browser window with no visible browser address bar. The composition is mostly empty dark GitHub background, with the README content centered slightly left of middle. GitHub page layout: At the very top, show the GitHub file breadcrumb and toolbar. Include exactly 3 breadcrumb/file items: a branch selector labeled “main”, the repository name “GPT-Image2-Skill”, and the file name “README.zh.md”. Below it, show exactly 3 tab buttons on the left: “Preview”, “Code”, and “Blame”, followed by small metadata text reading approximately “2865 lines (2093 loc) · 204 KB”. On the right side of the toolbar, include exactly 6 small GitHub action buttons/icons, including a “Raw” button. Keep the UI crisp, dark, and realistic. README content: On the dark page, place a short bold white Chinese heading near the upper left of the content area: “宋代社交媒体动态”. Beneath and to the right of this heading, display a single vertical smartphone-style mockup image. Phone mockup subject: The phone mockup is an ancient Song dynasty themed social media app screen titled 宋朝朋友圈. It has a warm sepia-black background, gold text, parchment textures, and a moody historical aesthetic. At the top of the phone screen show a status bar with exactly 4 visible status elements: carrier text “大宋移动 5G”, centered era text “元丰三年”, battery percentage “88%”, and a battery icon. Below that, show exactly 3 navigation/header elements: a back arrow on the left, the large title “宋朝朋友圈” in the center, and a camera icon on the right. Social post details: Show exactly 1 post. The post has exactly 1 square avatar on the left, a Song dynasty portrait with the face softly blurred. To the right of the avatar, show the username line 苏东坡 SuShi_Official. Under it, include the post text in Chinese: “刚到黄州,虽被贬但心情尚可。今日亲手做了东坡肉,味道绝佳。食谱见下图。” Render the text as warm off-white/gold calligraphic UI text. Post image: Under the text, show exactly 1 large image card styled like an antique Chinese painting on parchment. It depicts a pale celadon plate holding a glossy square block of Dongpo pork tied with a dark green strip, sitting in brown sauce. The image card also contains vertical Chinese calligraphy on the left, a small red seal, and a faint ink landscape or branch detail in the upper background. The food illustration should look painterly, like a museum manuscript mixed with realistic food rendering. Engagement area: Beneath the food card, show exactly 1 like row with a small red circular emblem icon and Chinese names/text reading approximately “黄庭坚、秦观、佛印 等 126 人觉得赞”. Below that, begin exactly 1 visible comment row with a small avatar and the comment “王安石:呵呵”, partially cut off near the bottom edge of the phone screen. Visual style: The overall screenshot should look like a real GitHub README preview containing a generated UI sample. Use dark GitHub colors, subtle separators, small white-gray interface text, and high contrast. The embedded phone mockup should be warm, cinematic, ancient Chinese, parchment-and-ink inspired, with soft vignetting and realistic shadows. Constraints: Keep the final image as a screenshot of the GitHub page, not just the phone UI. Include only one embedded phone mockup, one social post, one avatar, one food image, one like row, and one visible comment row. Do not add extra panels, extra posts, watermarks, or explanatory captions beyond the specified GitHub and README text.

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Censored Anime Ink Fashion Portrait
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Create a dynamic square-format anime ink illustration of a stylish androgynous young man, rebellious modern fantasy streetwear swordsman, shown from the waist up on a clean white background. He has messy tousled black hair with subtle brown highlights, many ear piercings, dangling chain earrings, layered necklaces, rings, bracelets, blue-painted fingernails, and ornate talisman-like accessories. His face is intentionally obscured by a centered opaque square censor block with a soft vertical gray-to-warm-taupe gradient, covering most facial features while leaving hair, ear, neck, and clothing visible. Pose him in a confident three-quarter view, leaning slightly back, with one hand extended toward the viewer in dramatic foreshortening as if beckoning or casting a spell. Dress him in a loose layered kimono-jacket outfit: white outer robe with black trim, black inner garments, blue accents, straps, cords, chains, metal charms, beads, and small skull-like ornaments. Use a high-detail Japanese manga concept-art style with expressive brush lines, splattered ink, scratchy crosshatching, flowing fabric folds, and energetic motion strokes. The palette should be mostly black, white, beige, and cobalt blue, with scattered black and blue ink splashes across the figure and background. Add exactly three visible graphic calligraphy/graffiti elements around him: a large black kanji-like symbol on the left, a blue hand-drawn crown with small marks on the upper right, and a small blue rectangular stamp seal near the lower left. Keep the composition dramatic, chaotic, fashionable, and highly detailed, with no photorealism, no extra characters, and no readable English text.

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Ink Wash Double Exposure Poster
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[Main Subject] A large, highly recognizable silhouette of a figure (head, face outline, or outer contour) fills the upper portion of the frame as the dominant visual shape. Within the lower and middle area, the same character appears in full body, standing still or in subtle motion, serving as the secondary focal point and visual core. [Composition] Double exposure and collage storytelling lives inside and around the large silhouette: multiple scenes, layered imagery, smaller character moments, supporting elements, and environmental layers blend together within clouds, ink wash, and whitewash. Side panels on the left and right echo each other, adding narrative tension and spatial rhythm. A flowing thread of visual cues links the main figure, internal collage, and surrounding silhouette, guiding the eye through the composition. [Style] A large portion of the canvas is left as negative white space. Edges are softened with ink stains, frayed brushwork, and dissolving textures, evoking the breath and emptiness of Oriental aesthetics. Overall mood: cohesive, refined, restrained, emphasizing layered storytelling, serialized poster language, and a strong central visual impact. Aspect ratio: 9:16.

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Classical Character MBTI Infographic Poster
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Please generate a [High-end National Style Information Poster for Classical Chinese Character MBTI]. [Character] Character Name: Pan Jinlian [Pre-analysis Requirements] Please complete and apply the following information based on the mainstream image of the character in classical Chinese literature, historical narratives, or folk culture: Character Pinyin: Use standard Hanyu Pinyin, with tones preferred. MBTI Type: Choose the type that best fits the core personality of the character. MBTI English Title: Use common MBTI titles, such as The Commander / The Logistician / The Advocate. Chinese Personality Label: Use 8-14 words to summarize the character's temperament. Character Feature Extraction: Identity positioning, core values, 4-6 personality keywords, symbolic style elements, representative props / weapons / mounts, 1-3 classic story elements, character ending or historical evaluation. [Overall Style] Vertical 3:4 composition, 4K Ultra HD, high-end national style character setting poster. Visual fusion: Chinese ink wash, light-colored meticulous painting, rice paper texture, traditional Chinese patterns, and modern high-quality infographic layout. The background is a warm rice-white rice paper color, with light ink clouds, meander patterns, window lattice grilles, and cinnabar seals. Overall temperament: elegant, solemn, collectible, culturally rich, clean and high-end. [Core Visual: 3D Popping Out of Frame] The character subject must have a strong semi-realistic effect of '3D breaking through the frame / popping out of the frame / leaping out of the painting'. The character's upper body or full body is located in the central main visual area, creating clear front and back depth of field. Sleeves, weapons, ribbons, hair, mounts, clouds, or signature props can break through the Chinese-style border to create a 3D relief-like out-of-frame effect. The visual focus must be the character. Maintain Eastern classical aesthetics; no modern game UI, no cyberpunk, no Western fantasy armor, no exaggerated anime faces. [Character Styling] Design based on the mainstream image of Pan Jinlian: retain the most recognizable clothing, facial features, posture, and era temperament. The expression must match the personality. Actions should have a narrative sense, reflecting the character's fate and personality strength. [Layout Structure] The poster is divided into three areas: 1. Top Title Area: Main title, large MBTI, English title, Chinese personality label, wrapped in traditional window lattice. 2. Middle Main Visual Area: Character occupies the core, 3D effect is prominent, ink wash rendering. 3. Bottom Information Area: Designed as 4 neat modules for introduction, personality traits, classic quotes, and character archives. [Colors] Primary colors: rice paper white, light ink gray, cinnabar red, deep gold. Secondary colors adjusted based on character temperament. Colors are restrained and high-end.

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Classical Chinese Go Portrait
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Using the provided reference image as the character base, regenerate the same classical Chinese beauty in a new vertical 9:16 portrait focused on “chess” from the four arts. Keep her pale blue-white translucent hanfu, elegant black updo, jade-and-pearl hair ornaments, dangling earrings, delicate loose hair strands, realistic skin texture, and soft oriental aesthetic consistent with the reference. Change the composition to a closer front-facing seated portrait with the upper body centered and hands relaxed near the lower edge. Replace the outdoor misty mountain-lake setting and guqin with an indoor scholarly scene: a wooden side table on the right holding a Go board with exactly two visible groups of stones, black and white, plus a small dark wooden bowl behind it. Add a subtle jade pendant necklace at her collarbone. Use a muted ink-wash wall or folding-screen background with pine and mountain silhouettes, soft diffused studio lighting, shallow depth of field, ultra-realistic 4K photographic detail, flowing sheer fabric, fine hair detail, and refined Eastern elegance. Optional customization: set the theme to Go chess / qí, the portrait orientation to 9:16 vertical, the garment color to pale blue-white, the background to indoor ink-wash wall with pine and mountains, and the accessory accent to jade pendant necklace. Avoid adding text, logos, watermarks, extra people, or modern objects.

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