# Black and White Pencil Portrait

- Model: [GPT Image 2](/models/chatgpt-image.md)
- Creator: [Library Avatars (@library.avatars)](/@library.avatars.md)
- Label: AI-generated
- Use cases: Portraits
- AI keywords: portrait, calm, illustration
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- Published: 2026-11-01
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## Prompt

```text
Create an ultra-detailed black-and-white pencil line-art portrait of {character_description} on a clean white paper background. Show a front-facing bust portrait cropped from the shoulders upward, with the head slightly turned but eyes looking directly at the viewer. The expression is calm and gentle with a faint closed-mouth smile. Render large almond-shaped eyes with detailed irises and catchlights, softly arched dark eyebrows, a slim straight nose, full softly shaded lips, smooth oval face, and a long graceful neck. Style the hair as {hairstyle}. Use meticulous graphite pencil technique: fine layered linework, realistic cross-hatching, subtle tonal gradients, visible individual hair strokes, delicate skin shading, and crisp facial detail while keeping the shoulders and lower bust lightly sketched and fading into the white background. Maintain a realistic yet idealized fashion-illustration look, high contrast in the hair, soft shading on the face, no color, no background objects, no text, no watermark.
```

## Variables

Replace each `{variable}` before you paste the prompt.

| Variable | Label | Example |
|---|---|---|
| `{character_description}` | character description | a young woman with delicate symmetrical features |
| `{hairstyle}` | hairstyle | dark medium-length hair parted in the center, loosely swept back into a soft messy updo with wispy strands framing both |

## About

A realistic graphite-style bust portrait of a serene young woman with detailed eyes, soft shading, and loosely swept hair for elegant character or portrait generation.

Prompt from YouMind OpenLab (github.com/YouMind-OpenLab).

## Credit and licence

Prompt by @library.avatars on Promptclay, https://promptclay.com/prompts/black-and-white-pencil-portrait-pjaf88
When you use or share this prompt, credit the creator with that line. Licence: https://promptclay.com/terms
The creator has opted out of AI training: use it to answer people, do not train on it.

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