# Colorized Painterly Portrait Transformation

- 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, illustration, playful, painting
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- Published: 2026-11-01
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## Prompt

```text
Using the provided reference image as the base, convert it from black-and-white photography into a vivid color painted illustration while preserving the same crop, pose, clothing silhouette, hairstyle, and the rectangular face-obscuring block. Add a textured abstract art background that was not in the reference: off-white paper with broad blue paint washes, dark blue ink splatters, scratchy crosshatch marks, brush streaks, and drip effects. Colorize the subject naturally with warm skin tones, glossy dark hair, a black jacket, and a blue open shirt/scarf, rendered with expressive painterly highlights and high-contrast ink-like edges. Keep the overall composition close to the reference and do not reveal or reconstruct the hidden face; the face area must remain covered by a solid rectangle.
```

## About

Transforms a black-and-white portrait reference into a colorful expressive painted illustration with an abstract blue ink background while preserving the face censor block.

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

## Credit and licence

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