Gouache Greeting Card Portrait

Create one vertical 3:4 image: a gouache illustration, a portrait likeness of the woman 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 her, instantly recognisable, never a generic cartoon face. Carry her face into brush and wash exactly: hairline and parting, 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, and every facial proportion. Restyle the medium, never the face; any makeup sits on her own features without reshaping them. 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 her 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 her face.

BODY: Gouache rendering, natural adult proportion - head in true scale, shoulders about two and a half head-widths wide; only the rendering changes, and her 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, never merging into the dupatta; each hand in scale with its forearm, four separately drawn fingers resting together and a separate thumb; one continuous neck.

SCENE: Below the band, pale blush-pink and cream dry-brush strokes behind her, one pale-ochre stroke low behind her waist, clear of the face and hairline with air around the head. Nothing else.

WEARING: A long-sleeved blush-pink silk anarkali, plum-and-gold borders at neckline and cuffs. An opaque deep-plum velvet dupatta over her left shoulder, the far one, falls down her back, both arms free of it from sleeve to fingertips, never over the head. Her only jewellery: small gold studs on the earlobes and a thin gold bangle on her near right wrist; forehead, parting and nose bare but for any nose stud in the photo. Her own hair, unadorned, loose behind the shoulders, clear of both eyes and brows.

POSE: Standing, weight even, turned about 15 degrees to camera-right, her right side nearer the lens. Her near right hand rests on her hip, back of the hand to the camera, elbow out with air inside the arm; her far left arm hangs relaxed, its hand fully out of frame below the crop.

GAZE: Chin lifted about 15 degrees, face about 20 degrees toward camera-right. Both eyes, fully open, on the empty 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. Warm and gentle: her 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 her skin its true tone. Her face takes the key like the rest of the figure and is its best-lit element; the strokes and gold 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 her own texture and length. Face, neck and hands are one continuous gouache skin in her 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 and borders are plain.

FINAL CHECK: The illustration's face is unmistakably the woman 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.