
Botanical Glasshouse Colored Pencil Portrait
Create a detailed colored-pencil portrait of yourself drawing plants inside a sunlit glasshouse with rich textures and natural artistic depth.
Using the uploaded photo, create a highly detailed vertical 4:5 colored-pencil illustration of the same woman seated at a wooden artist’s table inside a warm botanical glasshouse, carefully drawing an exotic plant on cream paper. KEEP — Preserve the exact facial identity and visible structure from the uploaded photo: forehead shape, eyebrow placement and shape, eye shape and natural eye colour, nose bridge and tip, lips, cheeks, cheekbones, jawline, chin, ears, facial width, natural asymmetry, original skin tone, pores and fine skin texture, authentic age, natural expression, hairline, hair density, hair texture, hair colour and hairstyle. Keep any visible facial hair unchanged. Preserve the subject’s original body proportions, shoulder width, neck length, arm length and hand anatomy. Do not replace the uploaded person with a generic illustrated model. CHANGE — Change only the wardrobe, pose, environment, lighting, artistic medium and colour treatment. Dress her in an oversized dusty-lavender chunky knitted sweater with thick visible wool loops and irregular hand-knitted texture. Place her seated naturally at a warm medium-brown wooden table, leaning slightly toward a botanical drawing while holding a dark teal-blue colored pencil. SCENE — Surround the table with tall glasshouse windows, broad tropical leaves, delicate stems, hanging plants and soft peach, cream and coral flowers. Keep the distant foliage gently blurred while the woman, paper, hands and nearest pencils remain sharply detailed. Scatter red, yellow, green, teal, blue, purple and pink colored pencils across the wooden surface. LIGHT — Use soft late-morning daylight entering from the upper-left through glass panels, creating warm highlights on the face and sweater with cool diffused shadows beneath the chin and hands. CAMERA — Use a 70mm lens look at chest height, f/2.8, with a slightly elevated perspective and moderate background compression. GRADE — Render as layered colored-pencil artwork with fine cross-hatching, visible paper grain, delicate pencil strokes, restrained saturation, warm cream highlights and natural graphite imperfections. OUTPUT — Vertical 4:5 aspect ratio, 8K resolution, crisp facial detail and realistic hand-drawn texture. DO-NOT — No face slimming, no skin whitening, no changed eye colour, no plastic smoothing, no invented jewellery or tattoos, no facial reconstruction, no distorted hands, no extra fingers, no generic face replacement.
Photo Guide
- Use a sharp high-resolution face photo with both eyes and hairline visible.
- A front or slight three-quarter angle preserves facial structure more reliably.
- Use soft daylight so the illustrated face keeps believable tonal transitions.
- Keep natural skin texture visible; avoid heavy beauty filters or blur.
- A visible hairline helps retain the original hairstyle in the drawing.
- Busy dark backgrounds can weaken the delicate glasshouse pencil effect.
How to Build
- 1Gemini: choose Image Generation and upload your clear reference photo.
- 2Set the output ratio to 4:5 before generating the image.
- 3Paste the full prompt exactly without removing the KEEP section.
- 4Use the highest available image quality or resolution setting.
- 5Generate again only after checking face, hands, and pencil placement.
- 6If wrong, regenerate with stronger identity preservation and KEEP details.
Pro Tips
- Use a daylight reference so the face blends into glasshouse illumination naturally.
- Keep both hands visible so the drawing pose does not create finger errors.
- Choose a photo with visible hair texture so loose strands remain believable.
- Avoid sunglasses because the eye shape and colour must stay identifiable.
- Keep the face unobstructed so colored-pencil shading follows real features.
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Naziya
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