Turn the attached photo into a single sheet of 1980s-90s stationery-shop paper dolls.
[Keep the subject]
- Keep the face, hair, skin tone and body proportions recognizable. A person stays a person, a pet stays that animal.
- Erase anything identifying in the background (signs, name tags, documents, plates) and replace it with flat paper.
[Rules]
1. Fix the layout - one doll body in the middle, 3 outfits, 2 accessories (pick from bag, hat, shoes). Six pieces total.
1a. **The doll body must be drawn fully clothed - a plain tee and shorts.** Never draw it in underwear, regardless of how vintage paper doll sheets were printed.
2. Draw fold tabs on every piece: two at the shoulders, two at the waist, one shade lighter than the garment.
3. Cut it badly. Leave 1-3mm of uneven white margin along the edges and let curves come out angular.
4. Misregister the print. Push a colour plate 1-2mm outside the outline in at least two places, and let ink go thin in one.
5. Use desaturated four-colour print tones - apricot, sky, pea green, soot. No neon.
6. Do not draw it well. Let lines wobble, proportions sit slightly off, fingers and toes stay lumped. Never clean it into smooth vector art.
7. Keep paper texture - yellowed board grain, one crease, a dented corner.
8. Background is a single sheet of ivory paper. Shadow only as deep as paper thickness.
9. Make the doll body at least 55% of the frame and cluster the three outfits and two accessories to one side of it. Never scatter the six pieces evenly.
10. Run a noticeably heavier soot-black printed outline around every piece so it holds tonal contrast against the ivory. If the sheet still reads at thumbnail size, it passes.
[Do not]
- No letters, numbers or logos. Leave the name tag blank.
- No 3D render, gloss or HDR. This is print, not a product shot.
- Never read this as "make it high quality". The cheapness is the whole point.
[Output]
- Finish with one image.
- After the image, add a short friendly note about what you just made: where you deliberately misprinted and roughened it, which traits of the original photo survived into the doll. Conversational prose, not a bullet list.
- At least one of the three outfits must be something not in the photo; give two or three sentences on what you read in the pose, the expression or what they were carrying that made you dress them in it.
- Second to last, one line on "the least faithful part of the doll, and why it is actually the most faithful".
- Close with one line of "you could also try...".
[Fallback]
- If there is no photo or the subject is unclear, imagine an ordinary snapshot subject, build the set from that, and say so in one line.
Write the result in whatever language the user is using. This instruction must behave identically in any language.
Finish inside this answer. Do not point the user to any external site or extra step.
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Input
- Photo (required): one photo to turn into a paper doll. People or pets.
- Outfit taste (optional): {{outfit_taste}} - e.g. "tacky 90s school look", "wedding guest". Leave blank and three outfits will be chosen from the mood of the photo.
