Watercolor Portrait of a Young Couple

Use the uploaded user photo as the **ONLY source of the primary human subject’s identity and facial appearance**. Preserve that person’s exact recognizable identity with maximum fidelity: facial structure, proportions, face shape, forehead, eyebrows, natural eye shape, nose, lips, jawline, cheeks, chin, skin tone, natural skin texture, hairline, and all distinctive facial characteristics. **Do not replace, beautify, redesign, age, de-age, masculinize, feminize, or otherwise alter the user’s identity.** The reference image controls everything except identity.
**REFERENCE RECREATION:** Recreate the reference as a romantic, intimate watercolor portrait of two young adults standing very close together, with the user as the primary recognizable subject. Preserve the reference’s overall arrangement, proportions, emotional atmosphere, framing, color palette, clothing concept, pose, lighting, and artistic treatment. The composition is a vertical portrait with the two subjects occupying the lower-middle and lower-right portion of the frame, while a large amount of softly textured empty watercolor paper remains above them.
**PRIMARY SUBJECT — POSE & BODY:** Position the user slightly left of center, standing close beside the companion. Recreate the reference’s relaxed, intimate posture: shoulders naturally angled toward the companion, upper body leaning subtly inward, head lowered slightly and tilted toward the companion. Keep the neck and shoulders naturally positioned. The primary subject is shown from approximately the upper torso/chest upward, with the lower body largely outside the frame. One shoulder and part of the white clothing extend toward the lower-left edge. Maintain the same physical closeness and scale relationship between both subjects.
**PRIMARY SUBJECT — EXPRESSION & GAZE:** Do NOT copy the facial expression, gaze, or head pose from the uploaded user photo. Construct the expression entirely from the reference. The primary subject has a calm, quiet, slightly serious and emotionally intimate expression, with relaxed eyelids, subtly lowered eyebrows, closed relaxed lips, and a gentle contemplative mood. The eyes look slightly downward and toward the camera/viewer rather than directly upward or away. Reproduce the reference’s exact eye openness, gaze direction, eyebrow position, mouth shape, facial tension, and subtle emotional restraint while keeping the user’s identity completely unchanged.
**SECONDARY SUBJECT:** Include a young adult companion positioned immediately beside and slightly behind/right of the primary subject, with their head close to the primary subject’s head and their shoulders overlapping naturally. The companion has long dark hair falling around the shoulders and a small purple flower tucked into the hair near the side of the head. Give the companion a soft, calm, intimate expression with relaxed eyes directed toward the viewer and naturally closed lips. The companion wears a feminine pink/magenta top. Do not make the companion visually dominate the primary subject.
**CLOTHING:** Dress the primary subject in a loose, casual off-white/cream collared shirt with a soft, slightly open neckline and natural folds. Preserve the relaxed fabric appearance visible in the reference. Add a subtle thin gold chain/necklace around the primary subject’s neck if visible within the framing. The companion wears a vivid but softly rendered pink/magenta garment with a simple neckline. Clothing must appear naturally integrated into the watercolor medium rather than photorealistic fabric.
**COMPOSITION & FRAMING:** Match the reference’s tall vertical composition and approximately **2:3 portrait aspect ratio**. Keep the subjects concentrated in the lower half of the image, leaving substantial negative space above their heads. The primary subject’s head sits around the central horizontal region, while the companion’s head is slightly lower/right. Their faces are the main focal point. Do not center the couple excessively; preserve the reference’s slightly lower placement and generous surrounding background.
**CAMERA & PERSPECTIVE:** Simulate a close portrait captured from approximately eye level, with a natural frontal/very slight three-quarter perspective. The virtual camera is close enough to clearly show facial features and upper torso while retaining the large surrounding background. Avoid wide-angle distortion, exaggerated perspective, extreme close-up cropping, or dramatic camera angles. Maintain natural facial proportions.
**BACKGROUND:** Recreate a warm, handmade watercolor-paper background in pale beige, cream, tan, and soft peach tones. The paper should have visible organic fibers, subtle grain, uneven pigment absorption, faint stains, and delicate watercolor wash variation. Keep the central upper background mostly light and uncluttered. Along the upper-right edge, create irregular translucent washes of dusty pink, mauve, lavender, and purple, spreading organically into the paper. Along the lower-left edge, add irregular watercolor blooms and splashes in lavender, violet, dusty pink, peach, and muted purple. These color washes should look naturally painted rather than digitally geometric.
**ART STYLE:** Render the entire scene as a highly detailed traditional watercolor painting on textured cold-press paper. Use layered transparent washes, delicate pigment bleeding, soft edges, subtle granulation, visible brushwork, natural paper texture, slightly imperfect watercolor contours, and gentle color transitions. Faces should retain recognizable identity while being interpreted through realistic watercolor brushwork. Preserve fine facial details without making the image look like a digital filter or generic illustration. Combine realistic portrait proportions with expressive hand-painted watercolor texture.
**LIGHTING & COLOR:** Use soft, warm, diffused illumination resembling gentle natural daylight. No harsh shadows, flash, neon lighting, or dramatic studio contrast. Skin should contain warm peach, rose, beige, and subtle golden watercolor tones. Hair should contain layered dark brown/black washes with individual painterly strands. The overall palette should remain warm, romantic, nostalgic, soft, and slightly dreamy, with cream, beige, peach, dusty pink, lavender, purple, brown, and muted magenta tones.
**DETAIL & DEPTH:** Keep the faces sharper and more detailed than the surrounding paper background, while allowing the clothing and background washes to become progressively softer and more painterly. Preserve delicate facial shading around the eyes, nose, cheeks, and lips. Hair should have convincing volume and loose watercolor strands. Add subtle natural imperfections characteristic of genuine hand-painted watercolor. Avoid excessive outlines, cartoon styling, plastic skin, hyper-saturated colors, CGI appearance, or artificial digital gradients.
**IDENTITY/REFERENCE PRIORITY:** USER PHOTO = **WHO THE PRIMARY SUBJECT IS**. REFERENCE IMAGE = **HOW THE PRIMARY SUBJECT looks, poses, gazes, expresses emotion, dresses, and is positioned within the scene**. Never transfer the reference person’s identity onto the user. Never copy the user’s source-photo expression, gaze, pose, or head angle when they conflict with the reference. Preserve the user’s identity while reconstructing the reference’s exact visual behavior and emotional presentation.
**FINAL QUALITY:** Highly refined, photorealistically proportioned watercolor portrait, authentic traditional watercolor medium, premium fine-art illustration quality, intricate facial detail, natural anatomy, elegant composition, realistic watercolor pigment behavior, textured paper grain, soft romantic atmosphere, subtle imperfections, cohesive hand-painted appearance, high resolution, no text, no watermark, no border, no extra people, no duplicated features, no distorted hands or anatomy.

Copy the complete prompt and use your own reference photos where requested.