romantic hand-painted watercolor portrait photo prompt

Create a highly detailed, romantic hand-painted watercolor portrait based on the reference image, formatted as an Instagram carousel slide in a 4:5 vertical composition, 1080x1350 pixels.

Depict a young couple sitting closely together in a relaxed, intimate pose. Place the man on the LEFT side of the composition and the woman slightly in front of him toward the CENTER-RIGHT.

The man has thick, voluminous, naturally tousled dark curly/wavy hair, dark eyebrows, expressive dark eyes looking upward toward the upper-left, and a short textured beard and mustache. His expression is calm, thoughtful and gentle, with relaxed closed lips. His head is slightly raised and angled upward. Dress him in a loose, simple white button-up shirt with an open collar, soft cotton-like fabric, natural folds and subtle watercolor transparency.

The woman has long dark hair with loose strands framing her face and a long dark braid falling down the right side of her body. Add a small subtle dark bindi centered on her forehead. Her dark eyes look upward toward the upper-right, and she has a soft peaceful smile. Give her delicate traditional dangling earrings. Dress her in a beautiful pastel blush-pink traditional Indian outfit with intricate but delicate floral embroidery, accompanied by a translucent light-pink dupatta draped naturally over her shoulders and across the lower-right area.

Keep the couple physically close, with their shoulders and heads naturally overlapping. Their faces should remain the most recognizable and detailed parts of the painting, while their clothing and lower bodies gradually become softer watercolor washes.

Transform the entire scene into an elegant traditional watercolor painting on textured warm-white paper. Use translucent layers of watercolor pigment, subtle pigment granulation, natural paint blooms, soft bleeding edges, irregular brush strokes, delicate paper fibers and organic variations in pigment density.

Create an understated background resembling a pale neutral wall, but render it entirely as loose watercolor washes. Surround the couple with irregular patches of pale beige, muted gray-green and very light warm-gray watercolor. Allow the pigment to spread organically beyond the subjects with uneven hand-painted boundaries.

Use a predominantly soft pastel palette: warm ivory, off-white, pale beige, muted sage-gray, dusty blush pink and very subtle warm brown. Let the woman's pink clothing create the strongest color accent, especially toward the lower-right portion of the composition.

Preserve realistic facial anatomy and proportions beneath the watercolor treatment. Keep the man's curly hair highly textured with individual dark watercolor strokes. Keep the woman's facial features delicate and natural, with clearly recognizable eyes, eyebrows, bindi, nose and soft smile. Preserve the long braid and individual loose hair strands.

The composition should feel airy, dreamy, romantic and artistic. Keep generous light paper-colored negative space around the irregular watercolor edges. Allow parts of the lower clothing to dissolve into loose watercolor splashes and transparent washes. Add a few subtle scattered watercolor droplets and pigment splatters around the lower and outer edges, especially near the pink fabric.

Avoid a digital-painted or CGI appearance. The result should look like a genuine high-quality hand-painted watercolor artwork created from a romantic photograph, with authentic watercolor paper texture, translucent washes, imperfect organic edges and delicate pigment variation.

OUTPUT: Instagram carousel slide, 1080x1350 pixels, 4:5 aspect ratio, vertical portrait.

Negative :

photorealistic final image, CGI, 3D render, anime, cartoon, vector art, hard digital outlines, oil painting, acrylic painting, overly saturated colors, neon colors, harsh shadows, dramatic lighting, plastic skin, distorted faces, generic faces, altered facial proportions, asymmetrical eyes, incorrect gaze, unnatural smile, missing bindi, incorrect hairstyle, missing braid, malformed hands, extra fingers, missing fingers, distorted anatomy, duplicated people, incorrect clothing, heavy makeup, excessive detail, sharp rectangular background, photographic background, excessive blur, muddy watercolor, oversaturated pink, harsh black outlines, artificial textures, flat digital gradients, low detail, low resolution, square composition, horizontal composition.