Folk-Art Narrative Design Poster

Please create each of the photos I upload as a separate, high-end design poster—no multi-photo collages, output each photo individually.

Overall composition: Vertical 3:4 format. The upper and lower sections have a strict 1:1 height ratio, each occupying 50% of the canvas.

Upper half: Preserve the original photo, maintaining the subject's identity, structure, pose, realistic texture, natural lighting, and original color atmosphere. Only apply light, premium color grading to give it the quality of an art magazine, independent publication, or exhibition image. To fit the format, the background may be naturally extended, but the subject must not be stretched, distorted, or altered.

Lower half: Extract the most recognizable **subject, silhouette, pose, and narrative relationship** from the photo, and reconstruct it into a **Naïve folk-inspired narrative illustration / A flat narrative illustration with a childlike folk art texture**. Do not trace the photo completely; instead, proactively simplify details, using silhouettes, primitive forms, a few color blocks, and symbolic elements to retell the original scene. Only retain the visual cues that best maintain the subject's identity and story relationship, so one can recognize the original at a glance while having a plain, humorous, and lived-in feel.

Subject styling is centered on **simplified silhouettes and large primitive forms**. Figures, animals, architecture, plants, objects, or vehicles may have their proportions moderately compressed, structures generalized, and features exaggerated. Do not pursue strict perspective or anatomy.

Space uses a flattened perspective, building the narrative through height, overlap, size, and color block relationships. Auxiliary objects are distributed rhythmically like visual symbols. Complex backgrounds are proactively deleted, allowing one core action, relationship, or scene to carry the main story.

The image uses **textures reminiscent of crayon, oil pastel, thick pencil, and dry materials**. Black or dark areas should not be filled uniformly; instead, retain traces of wiping, rubbing, layered application, breakage, and paper showing through. Outlines should have slight hand-drawn errors and a clumsy feel; edges need not be absolutely neat. Keep the overall appearance flat; avoid realistic lighting, metallic textures, complex volumes, or smooth digital vectors.

Color palette: From the upper photo, select the **most vibrant, memorable colors that best represent the subject's spirit** to reorganize, forming a simple yet vivid limited color palette. Overall, increase the cleanliness and vitality of the colors. Use warm white paper and dark silhouettes as a stable base, then naturally extract a few spot-color accents (blue, red, yellow, green, pink, orange, etc.) from the original for clothing, plants, food, architectural details, or narrative focal points. Colors should be bright but not overly saturated, creating rhythm through large-area light/dark contrast and small-area pop colors. Avoid gray, dull, moody, fluorescent, or cheap candy-sweet tones.

Composition emphasizes **narrative center, visual gravity, positive/negative space, size rhythm, and use of white space**. The subject does not need to be centered; it can be offset, partially cropped, or form a loose triangular relationship with auxiliary elements. Retain enough white space so the rough silhouettes and colorful small elements can breathe. Viewed from afar, the structure is clear; viewed up close, one can see the handmade grain and slightly naive, charming styling, rather than all elements being spread evenly.

Text intervention is minimal. Do not preset fixed titles, locations, numbers, or languages. Freely extract a small amount of meaningful text based on the photo's subject, action, lifestyle, emotion, or cultural context. Use light, simple, slightly offset-by-hand-printing, and irregularly spaced folk-art editorial fonts, possibly paired with a little handwriting, so the text exists naturally like signs, menus, notes, or publication annotations within the image. Text can be scattered along the subject, tabletop, wall, white space, or scene structure, participating in the narrative with the graphics, but should not form a neat commercial title bar.

Overall presentation: The visual temperament is composed of **childlike silhouettes, flat space, crayon grain, limited color, folk art symbols, and editorial narrative**. It should be approachable, humorous, plain, clever, and lived-in, while maintaining mature composition and design awareness. Avoid children's cartoons, cute stickers, realistic illustration, smooth vectors, complex perspective, detailed facial features, excessive detail, 3D rendering, e-commerce illustration feel, and template-like effects.

We are changing the layout to a left-right layout, side-by-side, with a 7:6 ratio.

Machine-translated — the original is what produced this result.

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