Black and White Crayon Silhouette Poster

Please create an independent high-end design poster for each photo I upload, without multi-image collages, outputting each photo separately. The overall layout should use a 3:4 vertical composition, with the upper and lower areas strictly 1:1 in height, each occupying 50% of the frame.

The upper half retains the original photo, maintaining the main subject's identity, structure, posture, authentic textures, natural lighting, and original color atmosphere, only with minor high-end photography color grading to give it the texture of art magazines, independent publications, and exhibition photography. To adapt to the frame, the sky, ground, or environmental background can be naturally extended, but the main subject must not be stretched, distorted, or altered.

The lower half extracts the most recognizable main subjects, silhouettes, poses, and narrative relationships from the photo, reconstructing them into minimalist bold black dry-media silhouette illustrations. Do not mechanically trace photo details, but compress the main subject into rounded, sturdy, slightly naive generalized forms, potentially enlarging the head, main outline, or most memorable part so that it can be identified at a glance with minimal information. If the photo contains multiple subjects, retain the most important interactive relationship, treating them as a single visual unit rather than evenly scattering focus.

The lower half uses only an almost pure white paper background + thick black crayon, charcoal, or dry brush marks, no colors, no grayscale gradients. The black forms are not smooth solid vector blocks, but formed by short, forceful crayon strokes repeatedly applied, preserving paper grain, broken lines, indentations, rough edges, uneven density, and local paper show-through. Outlines are slightly shaky, incomplete, and imprecise, keeping the image with a real handmade feel.

The most critical identifying features of the main subject can be reinforced through "white feature areas suddenly cut out within the black silhouette", such as face, eye area, window openings, vessel mouths, animal faces, core object structures, or most recognizable parts; then complete expression and details with very few black dots, short lines, or symbols. Do not pursue realistic facial features or precise structures, but let the black and white form a direct, interesting, and strong recognition relationship.

Composition maintains large areas of pure white space + one main visual relationship. The main subject can be centered and suspended, or slightly offset, partially cropped, or near the bottom of the frame, using only a rough ground friction line, a few short lines, or minimal environmental symbols to suggest space. Grass, rain, smoke, tables, shadows, roads, wind, or other environmental information should be compressed into very few crayon marks, keeping the background quiet and open. The overall should not pursue complex scenes, but let one posture, action, distance, or relationship carry the main narrative.

Text retains a small system with both high-end editorial and children's book feel. Do not just write location or object names, but extract a short English title from the emotion, action, relationship, time, or tiny story in the photo, paired with numbers, adapted golden quotes, chapter numbers, or one very short subtle mini-copy. Text can be restrained printed small text, or include a very small amount of clumsy handwriting, crayon text, or irregular letterforms, making it feel like it originally belongs to this illustration.

Text must have a clever relationship with the graphics: can be arranged along ground lines, extended along the main subject's action direction, hidden in large white spaces, slightly occluded by outlines, tucked into negative spaces between two subjects, or connected to the main subject with a thin line from numbers. Maintain "one short title + 1–2 sets of extremely small auxiliary text", letting text become part of the composition rhythm, not ordinary poster titles.

Overall presents visual characteristics of bold black, clean white, simple forms, and rough texture, maintaining a subtle balance between childlike, warm, quiet, humor, and loneliness, like an old black-and-white children's book reedited by a high-end design studio. Avoid smooth digital outlines, precise line work, realistic lighting, thick paint, 3D effects, colors, large gray areas, cartoon sticker feel, and templated commercial illustrations.

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