A FULL-BLEED illustration, portrait 2:3, printed at card size 5.4 cm wide by 8.56 cm tall.
CROPPED COMPOSITION — read this first: the scene is larger than the image and is CUT OFF by the four edges. The tiled rooftops run off both the left and right edges and continue outside the picture; the misty night sky fills the upper part and runs off the top edge. Nothing floats in the middle of a blank field. Every corner of the image contains painted sky, mist or roof.
HIGHEST PRIORITY — LIKENESS: the single most important requirement is that the face matches the reference photo. Preserve the exact facial features, face shape, jawline, eye shape and spacing, eyebrows, nose, mouth and hairstyle so that anyone who knows this person recognises them immediately. Spend the most rendering detail on the face.
STYLE: traditional Korean ink-and-light-colour painting (수묵담채) — form defined by confident black brush strokes of varying pressure, then filled with thin translucent mineral washes. Misty gradations, visible dry-brush texture, and the fibrous grain of hanji showing through the pigment itself. No photorealism, no 3D render, no anime shading, no digital gradients.
LIGHTING: soft even light from the upper left, no hard shadows, no rim light, no lens flare.
SUBJECT: the person from the reference photo, painted in the ink-and-wash style above. Calm determined expression. Replace the clothing entirely with the costume below, but keep the face unchanged.
PLACEMENT — THE KEY RULE, measured on the 8.56 cm card height: the background scene is painted continuously across the whole picture, top to bottom, with the same colour and texture throughout. The FIGURE is placed low within it: the top of the straw hat brim begins 1.168 cm below the top edge. Above that point the viewer simply sees more of the same mist and moonlight carrying on to the upper edge, unbroken and identical in tone to the rest.
SCALE: a WAIST-UP portrait. The bottom edge of the frame cuts at the hips, so the whole torso is visible and BOTH HANDS ARE VISIBLE, arms hanging relaxed at the sides. Normal adult proportions, the shoulders clearly wider than the head. NOT a close-up, NOT a large head.
FRAMING — follow precisely: the body is turned only SLIGHTLY away from the camera, about 15 degrees, so one shoulder sits just a little nearer the viewer. The head follows almost straight ahead with a very slight turn. Nearly frontal but not perfectly symmetrical. Chin level, head upright. The eyes look toward the viewer. Both hands empty, holding nothing.
COSTUME: a WHITE hanbok jeogori underneath, so BOTH SLEEVES AND ARMS ARE PLAIN WHITE with soft folds. Over it a SLEEVELESS BRIGHT CLEAR BLUE outer vest-robe — vivid cerulean, light and luminous, NOT navy and NOT dark indigo — open at the front with long panels falling from the shoulders, cinched by a white sash at the waist. On the head a WIDE WOVEN STRAW HAT of plaited natural straw, pale golden-tan, broad round brim, tilted back so the face stays fully visible. NOT a black horsehair gat. Keep the garment simple; it must never draw detail away from the face.
BACKGROUND: moonlit Joseon-era tiled rooftops dissolving into pale ink mist, the roofs cut by the side edges and the mist filling the upper area.
COMPOSITION: the bottom 2.6 cm is low-contrast. NO TEXT, no letters, no numbers, no labels, no seals anywhere in the image.
