# Girl Reading Letter by Oil Lamp

- Model: [GPT Image 2](/models/chatgpt-image.md)
- Creator: [Library Anime (@library.anime)](/@library.anime.md)
- Label: AI-generated
- Use cases: GPT Image 2
- AI keywords: portrait, illustration, anime, character
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- Published: 2026-10-31
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- Page: https://promptclay.com/prompts/girl-reading-letter-by-oil-lamp-30d2rx

## Prompt

```text
Create a highly detailed cinematic anime illustration of a young woman reading a handwritten letter by oil lamp in a dark attic room at night. The scene is vertical portrait format, close side profile composition from the waist up, with the woman seated at a wooden writing desk on the right side of the frame. She has {hair_color} hair with straight bangs and a long loose braid down her back, delicate pale skin, subtle blush, blue-gray eyes, and thin round wire-rim glasses. Her expression is quiet, pensive, and melancholy as she looks down at the letter held in both hands. She wears a vintage cream-white nightgown with lace trim around the neckline and cuffs, gathered sleeves, soft fabric folds, and a modest old-fashioned silhouette. The desk contains exactly 4 visible objects besides the letter: one glowing glass oil lamp with brass base, two stacked old books, and one framed picture leaning in shadow. The handwritten letter should show faint cursive lines but no readable modern text. The background is a dim wooden attic with slanted roof beams, dark planks, and a small window at left showing deep blue night sky and distant house lights. Lighting should be dramatic and warm from the oil lamp, casting golden highlights on her face, glasses, hands, letter, and desk, with cool blue moonlit shadows in the room. Use refined Japanese anime realism, painterly texture, delicate linework, realistic anatomy, soft skin shading, intricate hair strands, moody chiaroscuro, shallow depth of field, nostalgic 19th-century atmosphere, no watermark, no captions, no extra characters.
```

## Variables

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

| Variable | Label | Example |
|---|---|---|
| `{hair_color}` | hair color | soft chestnut brown |

## About

A cinematic anime-style portrait of a pensive young woman in a vintage attic reading a letter by warm lamplight.

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

## Credit and licence

Prompt by @library.anime on Promptclay, https://promptclay.com/prompts/girl-reading-letter-by-oil-lamp-30d2rx
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