Scratchboard Deckbuilder Portrait

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Fictional portrait: Scratchboard Deckbuilder Portrait — Style

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Transform the attached photo into a chest-up dark deckbuilding-game portrait at 768 x 1152 pixels, engraved in scratchboard. Carve the figure from a deep black field with sharp ivory incisions, dense directional hatching, chipped edges, one restrained crimson accent, severe under-light, and a tense quiet atmosphere. Replace the casual turn and smile with a frontal squared posture and an unreadable closed-mouth gaze. Keep her recognizable through face shape, long black hair and the floral-dress pattern, but redraw every part—face, eyes and skin included—fully as hand-cut scratchboard engraving; no photographic skin or pasted-on realistic face. Use a solid warm-gray #B8B0A3 background absent from the portrait. Deliver vertical 2:3 with no card frame, statistics, symbols, text, logo or watermark.

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Negative prompt

photographic face, pasted-on realistic face, full-color painting, smooth digital gradients, soft anime cel shading, ornate card frame, rarity glow, cheerful smile, loose watercolor, low-contrast hatching, cropped head, statistics, symbols, text, logo, watermark

Parameters

--ar 2:3 --style raw --stylize 220

Judge the portrait at card size; merge small cuts into larger ivory shapes if the face becomes noisy.

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Prompt difficulty

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DOC.01What defines this style

Ivory cuts and crimson accents carve a brooding card-game portrait from black.

This chest-up game portrait uses scratchboard engraving, dense white incisions and a strict black-ivory-crimson palette. The tactile monochrome surface and unframed crop distinguish it from luminous gacha art, trading-card layouts and softly painted tactical dialogue portraits.

Use it for

Dark deckbuilding character cards
Roguelike encounter portraits
Monochrome game codices

Practical notes

In Midjourney, lower stylize if the incision pattern begins to obscure the eyes.
Use Stable Diffusion inpainting to restore directional hatching around the nose and mouth.
Ask ChatGPT to reserve crimson for one costume detail instead of tinting the whole portrait.

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Ivory cuts and crimson accents carve a brooding card-game portrait from black.

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