I am still tremendously busy with my current main researcher job as I am in the middle of the research project under a strict supervision for the time being.
Also, the heatwave has come again, which is currently draining my energy and motivation for many thing on the top of it.
Therefore, I am playing with the AI again to make the synthetic art experiment.
As the Touhou Project popularity poll is going to be open from 21 to 28 August this year, I want to advertise for one of my favourite characters I will vote, Yuyuko Saigyouji together with my top favourite Myon-chan (Youmu Konpaku). I want to support both characters from Hakugyokurou to increase and sustain their popularity!
Yuyuko Saigyouji ("Yuyu-sama")
Original image:
Pixiv — Artwork 124575093
Yuyuko-sama — Posing for Modelling
Elegant Pink-Haired Ghostly Noblewoman Illustration Prompt
Overall Art Direction
Redraw this illustration as a polished early-to-mid-1990s Japanese fantasy RPG key illustration, reflecting the elegant visual language of Japanese fantasy strategy games, anime illustration books, and romantic shōjo-fantasy artwork from approximately 1991–1995.
Improve the line quality, anatomy, proportions, and shading while preserving the original composition.
Keep the original background, colour scheme, character pose, figure placement, and overall composition intact.
The finished artwork should feel like a refined Japanese fantasy game illustration or premium anime visual collection piece from the early-to-mid 1990s, with elegant linework, softly dimensional colouring, and a slightly romantic shōjo-fantasy atmosphere.
Facial Design
The facial rendering should lean slightly toward a graceful shōjo-fantasy sensibility.
Do not render the eyes in an excessively sharp, severe, or strongly shōnen-manga style.
Keep the eyes elegant, luminous, softly shaped, and emotionally readable.
Use delicate facial features, graceful eyelashes, softly layered irises, and controlled highlights without making the eyes oversized or excessively modern in appearance.
Her expression should appear graceful, serene, mysterious, and gently playful.
Canvas and Aspect Ratio
Use a landscape composition with a width-to-height aspect ratio of 1.414:1, matching the international A-series paper proportion and suitable for high-quality A3 or A4 printing.
Character
Elegant Pink-Haired Ghostly Noblewoman
An elegant ghostly noblewoman with short wavy pink hair and soft reddish-pink eyes, wearing a flowing light-blue-and-white traditional Japanese-style dress with dark blue trim and delicate floral motifs.
She wears a soft blue cap decorated with a white triangular spirit emblem.
Preserve her original pose and figure placement.
She should appear graceful, ethereal, refined, and aristocratic, with a mysterious yet gentle presence and a slightly playful smile.
Her overall presence should feel noble, beautiful, dreamlike, and quietly supernatural.
Supernatural Companions
Small Pale Ghostly Wisps
Several small pale ghostly wisps should surround the pink-haired ghostly noblewoman.
These ghostly wisps must remain light, soft, pale, semi-translucent, and spiritually atmospheric.
They should appear as simple floating supernatural wisps rather than fully formed creatures.
Do Not Add or Imply
human faces
eyes
mouths
noses
eyebrows
teeth
facial markings
expressive facial grooves
carved-looking features
heavily defined anatomy
monster-like details
mascot-like features
any recognisable human or animal face
Do Not Transform the Wisps Into
people
animals
mascots
monsters
skulls
humanoid ghosts
elaborate creature-like spirits
any supernatural beings with clearly readable faces
The wisps should remain soft, pale, floating spirit forms with clean silhouettes and a gentle supernatural presence.
Do not remove them or allow them to overwhelm the main figure.
They should support the atmosphere and character identity without distracting from the noblewoman herself.
Skin Tone, Texture & Luminous Warm Lighting
Skin Colour and Texture
Render the skin with a luminous warm ivory tone, soft peach undertones, and restrained natural pink blush.
Add subtle warm rosy colour to naturally flushed areas while keeping the overall complexion harmonious and refined.
Use smooth anime-style skin rendering with gentle translucent depth, creamy tonal modelling, subtle variations in skin colour, and soft warm gradients.
The skin should appear clean, luminous, softly radiant, and polished without becoming photorealistic.
Use restrained highlights to give the skin a delicate luminous quality while preserving the early-to-mid-1990s Japanese fantasy illustration aesthetic.
Avoid metallic, plastic, waxy, oily, or excessively reflective skin.
Warm Illumination
Use strong but elegant warm illumination consistent with the existing scene.
Create:
bright warm highlights
soft golden rim light around the hair and silhouette
warm reflected illumination
subtle amber bounce light
creamy illuminated areas
warm peach-coloured shadows
gentle tonal transitions between light and shadow
The brightest illuminated areas may become very luminous, but facial features, anatomy, linework, and colour information must remain clearly readable.
Use a pronounced but elegant contrast between luminous highlights and soft, warm shadows.
Reflected Colour and Dimensionality
Allow subtle pale rose, peach, amber, lavender, and blue-green reflected colours within shaded areas to create dimensionality, translucent depth, and atmospheric integration.
Use restrained soft bloom and gentle light diffusion around the strongest illuminated edges, particularly around the hair, silhouette, flowing sleeves, and selected bright contours.
The character should appear luminous against darker or cooler surrounding areas while remaining fully integrated with the original background.
The lighting should enhance the character without overwhelming the original scene.
Preserve the Original Environment
Preserve the original background, environment, character pose, figure placement, and overall composition.
Keep the lighting believable within the existing scene.
Do not introduce a new window, new architectural light source, photographic bokeh, shallow depth of field, or unrelated background lighting solely to create this lighting effect.
Instead, adapt the warm illumination, golden rim light, reflected colour, and highlight-to-shadow contrast to the light sources already present in the original illustration.
The final rendering should feel warm, luminous, dimensional, elegant, softly radiant, and highly polished, with the refined colour modelling of a premium early-to-mid-1990s Japanese fantasy RPG illustration.
Negative Prompt
Skin and Colour
gray skin, pale blue skin, cold skin tone, overly orange skin, excessive tan, flat skin shading, dull skin, muddy colours, plastic-looking skin, waxy skin, metallic skin, chrome-like reflections, oily skin, harsh mirror-like reflections, rough skin texture, noisy skin, excessive pores, photorealistic skin texture
Lighting and Shading
harsh shadows, featureless black shadows, excessive contrast, featureless blown-out highlights, loss of facial detail in highlights, unnatural saturation, flat lighting, cold fluorescent lighting, hard frontal flash, lifeless lighting, excessive HDR
Rendering Style
photorealistic rendering, 3D-rendered surfaces, rough painterly brushwork, thick uniform outlines, oversized modern moe eyes, excessively sharp shōnen-style eyes, chibi proportions
Camera and Background Effects
photographic lens effects, shallow depth of field, large circular bokeh, unrelated window-light setup, heavily blurred background, replacement of the original background
Ghostly Wisps
visible human-like facial features on the ghostly wisps, eyes on the ghostly wisps, mouths on the ghostly wisps, noses on the ghostly wisps, face-like hollows, facial grooves, facial indentations, expression-like markings on the ghostly wisps, monster-like spirit designs, mascot-like ghost designs
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