GPT Image Prompt
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Create a polished vertical 2:3 retro anime editorial poster with a sun-faded summer atmosphere, oversized year typography, tactile screen-print grain, and a restrained turquoise, cream, and burnt-orange palette.
INTENDED USE
A premium illustrated lifestyle poster, youth-culture editorial cover, summer art print, or retro campaign graphic.
CANVAS AND BORDER
Use a vertical 2:3 canvas with a full warm-cream paper border approximately 2.5% of the canvas width. Keep the inner artwork full bleed within the border. Apply slightly irregular printed edges, subtle ink wear, soft paper fibers, and controlled vintage grain.
MAIN SUBJECT
Feature one original, non-identifiable masculine-presenting illustrated character in the late teens to early 20s with light warm-toned skin, a slim build, a softly angular face, a narrow jaw, a small straight nose, and a calm neutral mouth.
Give the character short tousled silver-white hair with layered tapered ends, wispy strands, and a slightly wind-swept crown. Add large rounded aviator-style sunglasses with dark amber-brown lenses and a thin brown frame. Do not reveal detailed eye identity through the lenses.
WARDROBE
Dress the character in an oversized short-sleeve hooded top in burnt orange #D86F3F with a roomy hood, dropped shoulders, broad folded sleeves, visible seam lines, realistic fabric weight, and softly angular illustrated folds.
Add a muted cream drawstring #F4E4B4 and keep all garments free of logos, symbols, or branded details.
POSE AND FRAMING
Show the character in a left-facing side profile from approximately mid-torso upward. Place the head in the upper-middle and the torso toward the lower-right. Keep the shoulders relaxed and the expression composed, distant, and quietly confident.
Use a medium three-quarter crop at eye level with restrained perspective. Preserve clean profile anatomy, coherent neck and shoulder proportions, and natural overlap between the hood, hair, glasses, and face.
BACKGROUND
Use a bright retro turquoise sky #46AFC3 with scattered soft cream clouds #F8EAC0. Keep the clouds visible both around and inside the oversized year numerals.
Build a simple open-sky summer setting with no buildings, landscape, additional people, or unrelated objects.
TYPOGRAPHIC COMPOSITION
Place oversized cream numerals:
“2026”
Render “2026” exactly once in a very large bold condensed sans serif occupying most of the upper two-thirds. Use warm cream #F6E8BD. Crop selected numeral edges slightly against the inner poster boundary.
Allow the character to overlap the numerals while preserving their overall readability. Let turquoise vertical separators or narrow background gaps pass between selected digits, creating a layered editorial effect.
At the upper-left, include ONLY:
“cool”
Set it exactly once in small italic bold sans serif, mustard yellow #F3C655.
At the upper-right, include ONLY:
“retro”
Set it exactly once in small italic bold sans serif, pale aqua #A9D3CC.
At the left-middle, include ONLY:
“vibe”
Set it exactly once in small italic bold sans serif, mustard yellow #F3C655.
Across the lower-middle, include ONLY:
“insane”
Set it exactly once in a large sweeping hand-lettered brush script, warm cream #FFF0C6, angled slightly upward from left to right. Add one long energetic underline stroke beneath it.
Below the script word, include ONLY:
“SUMMER DREAMS”
Set it exactly once in bold uppercase condensed sans serif, mustard yellow #F3C655, centered beneath the underline with moderate tracking.
No other words, letters, numbers, logos, signatures, dates, contact details, barcodes, QR codes, or watermarks.
ILLUSTRATION STYLE
Use refined retro anime editorial illustration with clean ink contours, limited cel shading, subtle hand-painted color variation, mid-century travel-poster influence, and late-20th-century screen-print texture.
Keep the linework expressive but controlled. Use fine dark brown #5A382F outlines around the face, hair, glasses, and clothing, with slightly varied stroke thickness.
LIGHTING
Use warm directional summer sunlight from the upper-left. Add pale cream highlights along the hair, forehead, nose bridge, cheek, shoulder, and upper folds of the hoodie.
Use soft burnt-sienna shadows #A94E35 beneath the cap-like hair layers, jaw, hood, sleeve folds, and torso. Keep shadows graphic and readable without muddying the palette.
COLOR SYSTEM
Use:
- retro turquoise #46AFC3 for the sky;
- warm paper cream #F4E7C2 for the border;
- numeral cream #F6E8BD for the oversized year;
- burnt orange #D86F3F for the hoodie;
- deep orange shadow #A94E35 for garment depth;
- silver-white #E7E3D7 for the hair;
- dark brown #5A382F for linework and glasses;
- amber brown #7B432D for sunglass lenses;
- mustard yellow #F3C655 for small accent typography;
- pale aqua #A9D3CC for the upper-right accent word;
- warm script cream #FFF0C6 for the central lettering.
PRINT TEXTURE AND FINISH
Add fine halftone dots, subtle misregistration, lightly faded ink density, faint paper speckling, and gentle edge wear. Keep texture visible but controlled so the character silhouette and typography remain crisp.
Preserve strong color separation, balanced negative space, clean hierarchy, and a polished ad-ready finish suitable for print reproduction.
PRESERVE
Preserve one silver-haired side-profile character, rounded sunglasses, one oversized orange hoodie, the dominant “2026” numerals, turquoise sky, cream clouds, five text placements, thick cream border, retro print grain, and the turquoise-orange-cream palette.
AVOID
Avoid identifiable likeness, inferred nationality or ethnicity, extra characters, detailed visible eyes, malformed profile anatomy, distorted sunglasses, extra limbs, realistic photography, glossy 3D rendering, flat vector sterility, modern gradients, neon colors, proprietary logos, accidental text, duplicated numerals, clutter, excessive distressing, muddy shadows, QR codes, barcodes, signatures, or watermarks.
OUTPUT
Deliver a high-resolution vertical 2:3 retro anime editorial poster with clean typography zones, crisp illustrated anatomy, tactile vintage print texture, balanced layering, controlled color registration, and a publication-ready commercial finish.