🖼️ Image & Visual (AI Art)

Illustrative Hand-Drawn Istanbul Skyline Prompt

📁 Image & Visual (AI Art) 👤 Contributed by @senoldak 🗓️ Updated
The prompt
{ "subject": { "description": "A hand-drawn, child-like illustration of Istanbul's skyline. The scene includes the Hagia Sophia and another mosque with blue domes and orange-terracotta walls, the Galata Tower, and a blue river (the Bosphorus) with three small boats. At the very top, the text 'İSTAN BUL' is written in large, multi-colored hand-lettered block characters.", "count": 1, "position_in_frame": "centered", "orientation": "front-facing", "expression_or_state": "static landscape drawing" }, "composition": { "shot_type": "wide shot", "camera_angle": "eye-level perspective", "framing": "tight and controlled within a square white border", "symmetry": "asymmetrical but balanced", "background": "Light blue sky with simple white clouds, a bright yellow sun with radiating rays in the upper right, and several small 'V' shaped bird silhouettes.", "depth_of_field": "deep, everything is in sharp focus as per the drawing style" }, "style": { "visual_type": "illustration", "realism_level": "literal reproduction of a hand-drawn style", "art_style": "colored pencil and crayon drawing", "interpretation": "literal, technical reproduction of the provided artwork" }, "lighting": { "light_type": "flat, uniform lighting from a bright sun", "light_direction": "upper right", "contrast": "medium", "shadows": "soft, represented by simple pencil shading on building sides", "color_temperature": "warm and cheerful" }, "color_palette": { "dominant_colors": [ "Sky Blue", "Terracotta Orange", "Leaf Green", "Bright Red", "Sun Yellow" ], "saturation": "medium", "overall_tone": "vibrant and natural for a child's drawing" }, "texture_and_detail": { "surface_quality": "textured with visible colored pencil strokes and paper grain", "grain_noise": "subtle paper texture grain", "detail_level": "high, including architectural windows, boat details, and flower patterns in the foreground", "sharpness": "sharp, defined hand-drawn lines" }, "camera_render_settings": { "lens_equivalent": "n/a (flat illustration)", "aperture_look": "n/a", "resolution": "high resolution", "render_quality": "clean and precise reproduction of the source art" }, "constraints": { "no_additional_objects": true, "no_stylization": true, "no_artistic_license": true, "no_text": false, "no_watermark": true, "no_crop_or_reframe": true, "no_color_shift": true, "no_dramatic_effects": true }, "negative_prompt": [ "photorealistic", "3D render", "cinematic", "digital painting style", "blurry", "unstructured", "omitting the text", "changing the letter colors", "modifying the building layout", "dramatic lighting effects", "wide-angle distortion" ] }

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