GPT Image Prompt
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Create a vertical 9:16 decorative illustration of a dramatic tropical volcano erupting on a floating island.
Scene: A steep volcanic cone rises from a narrow tropical island above layered blue-gray ocean water. Bright lava bursts from the crater, glowing through a dense vertical tower of smoke. White clouds overlap the smoke at several depths, palm trees frame the lower island, black birds scatter through the sky, and small ash fragments drift around the eruption.
Main subject: Center one large charcoal-black volcano in the lower half of the canvas. Show a vivid orange and golden-yellow eruption plume, several glowing lava channels flowing down the cone, and a towering irregular column of clustered dark smoke that fills most of the upper frame.
Composition: Use a front-facing, centered, vertically stacked composition. Keep the volcano broad at the base and visually stable, with the smoke column narrowing and expanding through overlapping cloud clusters. Place white clouds around the outer edges to balance the dark central mass. Frame the island as a floating cutaway platform with layered water beneath it. Maintain clear silhouette separation between the volcano, smoke, birds, clouds, palms, and background.
Art direction: Render the entire image as handcrafted layered paper-cut artwork. Use crisp cutout contours, slightly irregular organic edges, stacked cardstock depth, subtle embossed separation, and soft directional cast shadows between layers. Combine storybook illustration, shadow-box craft, and bold graphic poster aesthetics. Keep the image stylized rather than photorealistic.
Color and materials: Use charcoal black #2B2B2B and deep black #0B0B0B for the volcano, smoke, birds, and palm silhouettes. Use lava orange #FF6A00 and golden yellow #F5A623 for the eruption plume and lava channels. Use off-white #F5F5F0 and warm white #F7F7F2 for clouds and background. Use blue-gray #466575 for the layered ocean and leaf green #7FAE45 for tropical foliage. Preserve a high-key light background with a strong dark central silhouette and controlled bright accents.
Lighting: Simulate soft studio illumination falling from the upper left, producing shallow realistic paper-layer shadows, restrained highlights, and clear depth without glossy surfaces. Keep the paper finish matte and tactile.
Preserve: One volcano, one dominant smoke tower, multiple surrounding white clouds, scattered silhouetted birds, tropical palms, layered ocean water, the floating-island structure, and the dramatic vertical hierarchy.
Constraints: No people, buildings, vehicles, text, letters, numbers, logos, signatures, watermark, photographic textures, realistic fire photography, scientific labels, infographic elements, extra volcanoes, or unrelated objects.
Output: A polished, clean, high-resolution vertical illustration with crisp edges, balanced spacing, strong foreground-background separation, and a handcrafted paper-shadow-box finish.