An AI-generated vision of prehistoric life inside a sacred cave. The figures, markings, and symbols hint at forgotten traditions and stories that may never be fully understood. I wanted the image to feel both ancient and strangely familiar.

been testing a prompt that turns each uploaded photo into its own editorial-style poster.

The idea is simple to reinterpret the same image as a very minimal hand-drawn illustration. Lots of negative space, paper texture, restrained colors, and very little typography

I wanted it to feel more like an independent art book / contemporary publication cover than a commercial poster. also, if you upload multiple photos, the prompt tells the model to make one separate poster per image, rather than combining everything into a collage.

Prompt

Create one independent high-end editorial poster for each uploaded photo. Do not combine multiple photos into a collage. Each photo must be processed and output as a separate poster.
OVERALL FORMAT
Strict 3:4 vertical composition.
Divide the canvas horizontally into two exactly equal sections, with a precise 1:1 height ratio.
The top half occupies exactly 50% of the canvas.
The bottom half occupies exactly 50% of the canvas.
The two sections should feel visually connected as one refined art publication cover.
TOP HALF — ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPH
Preserve the original photograph as faithfully as possible.
Keep the main composition, subjects, identity, facial features, body proportions, poses, expressions, clothing, objects, and spatial relationships unchanged.
Preserve the realistic photographic texture, natural lighting, shadows, atmosphere, and original color mood.
Apply only subtle, sophisticated editorial color grading, creating the feeling of a premium magazine photograph, contemporary art book, or high-end independent publication.
The image should remain photorealistic and authentic, never overly retouched or artificially stylized.
If necessary to fit the 3:4 composition naturally, extend the sky, ground, walls, or surrounding environmental background.
Background extension must feel seamless and photographic.
Never stretch, distort, reshape, replace, or alter the main subject.
BOTTOM HALF — MINIMAL HAND-DRAWN PAPER ILLUSTRATION
Extract the most recognizable visual elements from the original photograph and reinterpret them as a minimalist hand-drawn paper-cover illustration.
Preserve:
the most recognizable subject
essential silhouette and proportions
key pose or gesture
important objects
the core narrative relationship between people and objects
Highly simplify the image. Remove unnecessary details and retain only the visual information needed for immediate recognition.
Use:
delicate, slightly imperfect hand-drawn lines
a small number of bold acrylic-style flat color shapes
rough paper texture
visible handmade brush marks
slightly irregular organic edges
subtle imperfections that make it feel genuinely handmade
The main illustrated subject should be small, centered, and carefully composed, occupying approximately 10–20% of the bottom half.
Leave a large amount of negative space around the illustration.
The background should primarily resemble rough white paper, warm off-white paper, pale natural paper, or minimal editorial book-cover stock.
Use only a few lines or small color shapes to suggest the surrounding environment.
COLOR PALETTE
Extract the dominant colors directly from the original photograph.
Compress the palette into no more than 4 main colors.
Keep the colors restrained, sophisticated, and harmonious.
Use bold but controlled flat color blocks.
Avoid excessive color variation.
Preserve subtle paper grain and handmade brush texture.
The illustration should visually feel like a simplified color interpretation of the photograph.
TYPOGRAPHY
A small amount of simple typography may be included when appropriate.
Possible elements:
short title, keyword, object name, location, year, number, or short phrase.
Text should be minimal, understated, and editorial.
Typography should naturally interact with the large areas of negative space and the small illustration, evoking art book covers, independent publishing, contemporary editorial design, and thoughtful children’s picture books.
Do not force text into the composition if it does not naturally fit.
VISUAL LANGUAGE
Quiet · Poetic · Refined · Minimal · Innocent · Relaxed · Artistic · Thoughtful · High-recognition · Premium
Core concept:
“A small subject surrounded by a large amount of empty space.”

BACKLIT DOORWAY — CASUAL EDITORIAL Create ONE ultra-photorealistic full-body lifestyle/editorial photograph of a clearly adult woman, inspired by the supplied doorway reference photograph. REFERENCE PRIORITY — SUBJECT Use the supplied character/reference image as the absolute authority for the woman’s identity and natural body proportions. Preserve faithfully her established facial structure, apparent adult age, eyes, complexion, natural facial asymmetry, shoulder and ribcage width, torso length, waist, abdomen, hips, thighs, legs, and overall physique. Her face must unmistakably remain the same woman shown in the supplied character reference. Do not substitute a generic fashion model, slim her figure, lengthen her body, or beautify/reinterpret her facial features. Preserve her established hair color, hairline, density, and general characteristics. For this photograph, her hair is worn long, loose and naturally tousled, falling around and beyond her shoulders with individual strands and slight irregularity. BODY CONTINUITY Preserve the woman’s established natural proportions exactly. Her upper-torso volume should retain its established relationship to her ribcage, including the natural distribution of volume shown in the character reference. Preserve realistic weight and gravity, a broad natural base where appropriate to the reference, a soft gradual upper slope, natural projection and separation, and subtle asymmetry. Do not reduce or enlarge her established proportions to imitate the woman in the inspiration photograph. Do not create an artificially high, spherical, push-up, implant-like, or heavily molded silhouette. The clothing must adapt to the woman’s body rather than changing the woman to fit the clothing. WARDROBE She wears a simple opaque white cotton ribbed tank top, casual and slightly fitted but not compressive. The tank has broad ordinary shoulder straps, a simple softly rounded scoop neckline, and lightweight everyday cotton rib-knit construction. It has no built-in cups, corsetry, shaping seams, push-up structure, or decorative lingerie details. The fabric follows her established proportions through ordinary fabric tension and gravity, producing believable stretching, slight rib-knit distortion, small wrinkles and natural folds rather than artificially sculpting the torso. The tank ends around the upper hip/waist area and has shifted slightly upward on one side through her relaxed pose, revealing a small, natural section of midriff. She wears relaxed dark-indigo wide-leg jeans, sitting naturally around the hips with believable denim weight, creasing and bunching. The legs are loose and slightly long, falling partly over simple off-white casual sneakers. Over the tank she wears an oversized dark forest-green quilted/puffer jacket, completely open and casually slipped down from both shoulders so that it rests around her upper arms and elbows. The jacket should feel heavy and oversized, contrasting with the lightweight tank beneath it. No logos, text, or visible trademarks. POSE Recreate the relaxed body language of the inspiration photograph rather than copying the reference model’s anatomy. The woman stands casually in an open doorway. Her weight rests primarily on one leg while the other leg bends slightly and crosses inward, creating a relaxed asymmetrical stance. Her hips shift naturally according to the weight-bearing leg. One hand rests loosely across her lower abdomen/waist, lightly touching the bottom area of the tank without dramatically pulling it. Her other hand rests casually near the front waistband or pocket area of the jeans. Her shoulders remain relaxed and the oversized jacket hangs low around her arms. She looks directly toward the camera with a quiet, mildly curious expression and relaxed lips, as though the photographer caught her during an ordinary moment rather than during a formal pose. Avoid exaggerated hip arching, fashion-model contortion, or overtly provocative posing. ENVIRONMENT Place her just inside a tall residential doorway with very dark painted wooden double doors and simple traditional architectural trim. One door is partially open behind her. Outside is intensely bright daylight, almost completely blown out, creating a luminous white backdrop through the doorway. Inside, retain subdued ambient illumination, dark door surfaces, warm wooden flooring, and subtle architectural details. The environment should feel like a real older townhouse, apartment, or converted studio rather than a constructed fashion set. LIGHTING Strong natural daylight enters from behind the woman through the open doorway. Allow the exterior to approach photographic overexposure. The backlight produces a subtle luminous rim around loose strands of hair, her shoulders, and portions of the jacket while the woman herself remains properly exposed through soft interior fill. Do not use dramatic studio key lighting. Preserve realistic shadow density on the face and clothing. CAMERA / COMPOSITION Vertical 3:4 full-body photograph. Camera approximately waist-to-chest height, positioned several meters inside the room. Natural perspective equivalent to approximately a 45–55mm full-frame lens. The woman occupies most of the vertical frame while retaining enough surrounding doorway architecture to establish the location. Include her complete shoes and a small amount of wooden floor beneath them. Slightly imperfect framing is desirable. The photograph should feel spontaneous rather than geometrically composed like a studio portrait. PHOTOGRAPHIC CHARACTER Ultra-photorealistic real-camera appearance. Natural skin with visible but restrained pores, faint freckles or pigmentation where appropriate to the subject, subtle tonal variation, and minor natural imperfections. Skin detail should be spatially selective rather than uniformly sharpened: eyes and individual hairs may resolve strongly while larger skin surfaces remain comparatively quiet. Use broad soft skin highlights, restrained optical sharpness, subtle lens softness, realistic denim and cotton texture, natural hair detail, slight sensor grain, and gentle highlight roll-off. Avoid HDR, excessive microcontrast, plastic skin, artificial pore overlays, repeated skin texture, CGI cleanliness, fashion-retouch perfection, or synthetic-looking sharpness. The finished image should resemble a casual late-1990s/early-2000s fashion editorial photograph captured during an unguarded moment, with the woman’s identity and natural proportions derived from her supplied character reference rather than from the inspiration model. REFERENCE RULE: Use the character/reference image for who the woman is and how she is proportioned. Use the doorway inspiration image for pose, wardrobe concept, environment, composition, lighting, and photographic mood. Never transfer the inspiration model’s facial features or body proportions onto the subject.

I'm sure a human could do a better job, but damn this is just what I was imagining.

Just a bit of fun. Dragon Ball GT X Chrono Trigger