Crayon Travel Notes Comparison Poster
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Crayon Travel Notes Comparison Poster

Keep a single travel photo as the real image in the upper half, and transform it in the lower half into a corresponding horizontal crayon memory drawing, creating a gentle contrast between photography and hand-drawing.

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Please turn each travel photo I upload into a separate "Crayon Travel Notes" comparison poster. Do not tile multiple photos together; output each photo on its own.

Overall, use a 3:4 vertical composition, with the upper and lower areas of nearly equal height, 1:1, separated by a clean, straight horizontal boundary. Do not use gradients, feathering, or blending effects at the middle.

The upper half faithfully preserves the original photo, accurately keeping the people, animals, buildings, vehicles, boats, natural scenery, direction of movement, viewing angle, spatial relationships, real materials, natural light and shadow, and original color atmosphere. Apply only a slight travel-magazine photographic color grade, and add an extremely thin film grain. Do not redraw, move, replace, or distort the subjects in the original photo.

The lower half is a warm off-white drawing paper with clearly visible fibers and slight paper tooth, leaving large areas of clean, continuous paper space.

Embed an independent horizontal sheet of drawing paper in the center of the lower half. The sheet should occupy about 70%–80% of the lower half's width and about 40%–50% of its height, with soft, natural, slightly irregular hand-torn edges and paper fibers. Do not use a smooth, regular digital photo frame.

The crayon illustration on the horizontal sheet must come from the same photo above. Do not extract just one isolated person or object; instead, preserve the most important narrative composition and spatial relationships of the original photo:

- Keep one most recognizable subject;
- Keep the subject's original pose, direction, and positional relationships;
- Keep one to three clues that indicate the place or environment;
- Make sure the subject, road, buildings, mountains, water, sky, or other key elements in the illustration clearly correspond to the photo above;
- Remove cluttered backgrounds, distant details, photographic noise, tiny text, and irrelevant decorations.

Rather than tracing the whole photo mechanically, compress the complete scene into a short, naive, memory-like horizontal crayon sketch. Adjust the cropping, detail density, and number of colors as appropriate, but do not change the subject's identity, number, direction of movement, or key scene relationships.

Complete the illustration with thick round-tip crayons, oil pastels, and a very small amount of pencil. Use intermittent, slightly hesitant thick dark-gray or black crayon outlines as the main structure, showing uneven hand pressure, pauses, retracing, color going over lines, paper texture showing through, slight smudging, areas where color does not fully fill the shape, and irregular broken strokes.

The forms should be simple, rounded, and slightly clumsy, with the intimacy of a private travel sketchbook or an old picture book. Realistic facial features need not be drawn, and accurate perspective is not required, but the subject must remain recognizable at a glance through its silhouette, pose, and iconic objects. The image should feel naive but not childish, relaxed but not sloppy.

Extract two to four soft colors from the photo above and pair them with black or dark-gray outlines. Keep the photo's most memorable characteristic colors, such as the blue of a building, the orange of a vehicle, the gray-blue of lake water, the green of grass, or the pink of flowers. Reduce the number of colors and their saturation. Do not use a fixed sea-blue, a rainbow palette, or colors unrelated to the original photo.

Add one natural handwritten English sentence above and one below the horizontal drawing:

- The sentence above describes the place, weather, subject, or scene relationship that is actually visible in the photo;
- The sentence below records the slight emotion or observation this moment brought;
- The two sentences should be short, natural, and human, like lines jotted down casually during a trip;
- Do not use numbering, years, archive fields, advertising slogans, or standardized poster titles.

The text should use loose, slightly wobbly graphite pencil or crayon handwriting, retaining paper tooth, broken strokes, and natural writing errors. The font size must be clearly readable in chat previews, and the text should look truly written on the paper, not like smooth, digitally added typography.

Overall, present a gentle contrast between real travel photography and a private crayon sketchbook. The upper part records the scene as it actually happened; the lower part keeps the shapes, colors, and a single quiet note left after memory has trimmed the scene away.

Avoid: isolated person icons, sticker-like subjects, fully realistic background redraws, children's cartoon style, memes, rainbow palettes, smooth vector lines, automatic photo outlines, digital filters, full-bleed illustrations, regular picture frames, dense decoration, garbled text, pseudo-Chinese characters, author names, signatures, brand logos, QR codes, and watermarks.

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Usage tip: after uploading one travel photo, generate a single 3:4 vertical poster separately; make sure the photo's subject, scene clues, and key colors are clearly recognizable, and check that the handwritten English captions accurately describe the picture.

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