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Nordic Nursery Postcard Doll, Hand-Drawn in Pastels
Redraw a photo as a storybook doll with fine lines, pastels and little stars, quiet like the side of a cradle.
✍️ Lines should be "a bit crooked" and features "a bit small"; the storybook innocence of not trying to be accurate rests on those two things. The string of "avoid" terms at the end is the guardrail. Once realism or 3D creeps in, the tenderness falls apart.
📋 Prompt Natural Language775 characters
Redraw the supplied photo as a children's picture-book page: minimalist, hand-drawn, gentle, with a whimsical fairy-tale air. The subject becomes a cute doll-like character with long, simple shapes, thin imperfect pen lines, flat pastel color, sparse detail, rosy cheeks, tiny features and a simplified body. Give the paper a faint grain, add soft pencil and pastel shading with a watercolor-like softness, and keep the ground clean white with a few small stars or sparkles. The clothing is stylized storybook-fashion: simple shapes, light decoration. Aim for an airy, cozy, naive, charming feeling, close to a modern Scandinavian nursery postcard. Do not use photorealism, 3D, cinematic lighting, glossy finishes, intricate shadows, true-to-life anatomy or excessive detail.
