Gouache Greeting Card Portrait

Create one vertical 3:4 image: a gouache illustration, a portrait likeness of the man in the attached photo, eyes lifted into an empty cream top half, designed as a greeting-card image.

FACE MATCH - TOP PRIORITY: The attached photo is the identity source only. The illustration is unmistakably him, instantly recognisable, never a generic cartoon face. Carry his face into brush and wash exactly: hairline, hair colour and texture, brows, eye shape and spacing, nose, lips, jawline, chin, cheek width, skin tone, any mole, freckle, scar or dimple in its exact place, his own facial hair, and every facial proportion. Restyle the medium, never the face. Take nothing else from the photo - not its light, expression, clothes, pose or background.

FRAME: Waist-up, hair to just below the hip bones, filling the lower half; an 85mm view level with his chin. The top half is one flat, even cream wash, bare of strokes, marks, gradient and objects, kept empty for words added later, a step dimmer than his face, with clear space above his hair.

BODY: Gouache rendering, natural adult proportion - head in true scale, shoulders about three head-widths wide; only the rendering changes, and his features keep their true shapes and spacing, eyes never enlarged. One intact figure: two arms and two hands, the body continuing naturally below the frame, every limb attached at the shoulder, unbroken, doing only what is described; each hand in scale with its forearm, four separately drawn fingers resting together and a separate thumb; one continuous neck.

SCENE: Below the band, broad pale blush-pink and cream dry-brush strokes lie horizontally behind him, clear of the face and hairline with air around the head. Nothing else.

WEARING: An open, plain blush-pink wool bomber with deep plum ribbed cuffs over a deep plum fine-knit crew-neck sweater, both long-sleeved, the sweater tucked into cream wide wool trousers with a plain tan belt; a fine gold chain over the crew neck. His own haircut and his own facial hair exactly as in the photo, only neatly combed.

POSE: He stands, weight on the back leg, shoulders turned about 15 degrees to camera-right, his right side nearer the lens. His near right hand is in the trouser pocket to the knuckles, thumb outside, wrist visible; his far left arm hangs relaxed, its hand fully out of frame below the crop.

GAZE: Face at a clear three-quarter toward camera-right, chin lifted about 20 degrees. Both eyes, fully open, on the empty cream band at top camera-right, not at the camera, the face no further than three-quarter, irises round and whole, each with a defined pupil and one small real reflection of the daylight, never painted dots. Proud and gentle: his own lips closed, corners lifted slightly; the warmth only in slightly lifted lower lids and cheeks, no painted blush.

LIGHT: Key: warm-neutral painted daylight, high above-front at camera-right, on the band's side. Fill: a cream bounce from below, keeping his skin its true tone. His face takes the key like the rest of the figure and is its best-lit element; the cream trousers, strokes and gold chain a step dimmer.

MEDIUM: A gouache illustration finished as a true piece of that medium: opaque flat washes, dry-brush edges, cold-press paper grain, hair brushed in his own texture and length. Face, neck and hands are one continuous gouache skin in his exact skin tone, never lighter or pinker; each garment keeps its own finish and a crisp edge; no photographic skin.

TEXT: No text, logo, signature or watermark anywhere; the band, bomber, sweater and belt buckle are plain.

FINAL CHECK: The illustration's face is unmistakably the man in the attached photo, every feature carried into gouache, lit by the painted daylight - if any feature differs, it is wrong. One intact figure, limbs and hands exactly as described. Vertical 3:4, no text.