Image prompt Illustration & Characters Customizable
Urban Lifestyle Photo to Hand-Drawn Illustration
A photo of a person in an everyday city scene becomes a flat, hand-drawn poster with bold black outlines and a grainy paper finish. Beige, brick red and slate blue carry the mood, and the setting stays calm and recognizable.
- Model
- GPT Image 2
- Type
- 2 images
- Aspect ratio
- 3:4
- Shared
- 4 Aug 2026
- Likes on X
- 162
Image prompt
1,198 charactersTransform this photo into a clean, hand-drawn editorial illustration with a modern urban lifestyle aesthetic. Preserve the exact composition, pose, clothing, headphones around the neck, smartphone, motorcycle, yellow e-scooters, glass fence, and apartment buildings in the background. Use bold black outlines, simplified geometric shapes, minimal facial details, soft beige and cream tones, muted brick red, slate blue, charcoal black, and warm yellow accents. Apply a textured paper/grain finish with subtle ink scratches and brush imperfections. Flatten the lighting with gentle shadows, giving it a cozy Scandinavian-inspired illustrated poster look. Maintain a calm, everyday city atmosphere while keeping the proportions accurate and the character recognizable from the original photo. High-quality digital illustration, flat colors, vector-inspired, minimalistic, artistic, clean linework, textured print aesthetic, 4:5 aspect ratio. Negative prompt (optional): Photorealistic, 3D render, anime, watercolor, oil painting, excessive detail, hyper-realistic skin, blurry, distorted anatomy, extra limbs, messy lines, noisy background, oversaturated colors, text, logo, watermark, low quality.
How to use it
Upload your own photo first, since the prompt is written to keep your composition, pose and props. Keep the linework, muted palette and textured finish, which create the poster feel, and swap the street objects if you want a different scene. It was shared as a GPT Image 2 prompt, and the result works well as a cover image or wall print.
Shared publicly on X on 4 Aug 2026. All credit for this prompt and its result goes to its creator. Is this yours? Ask for an update or removal.
