Oil pastel fashion illustration style

Prompt

Transform the subject from the uploaded photo into a fashion illustration created with {argument name="medium" default="thick oil pastels or wax crayons"} on {argument name="surface" default="textured paper"}.
Fashion Illustration Style: Editorial and stylish, focusing on the subject’s outfit and overall look rather than background elements. Reminiscent of fashion magazine sketches.
Medium & Tools: Rendered with bold, chunky pastel strokes. Marks are grainy, textured, and uneven, leaving visible gaps and overlaps. No digital smoothness.
Linework: No black outlines or contour lines. Shapes are defined by overlapping pastel blocks of color.
Coloring: Flat matte fills in vibrant but muted tones. Slightly imperfect coverage, with paper texture peeking through. Minimal shading using broad pastel hatching, not gradients.
Details: Preserve the subject’s hairstyle, clothing, accessories, pose, and expression exactly, but simplify them into bold pastel forms. Logos or numbers should appear as painterly pastel marks, not sharp text.
Background: Solid, off-white sketchbook paper. Only a light scribbled ground shadow to anchor the figure.
Overall Tone: Chic, modern fashion sketch aesthetic — stylish, minimal, and editorial.
Negative Prompt: No outlines, no contour ink. No gradients, no digital airbrush, no vector-smooth shapes.

Example output

How to use this prompt

1. 1. Copy the full prompt text above.
2. 2. Paste it into your image model — Midjourney, DALL·E, Stable Diffusion, or GPT Image.
3. 3. Replace the subject, style or lighting words with your own to adapt it.
4. 4. Adjust aspect ratio and steps in your tool; the prompt itself is tool-neutral.
5. 5. Iterate on one variable at a time so you can tell which change mattered.