Photo to Hand-Drawn Doodle
Transforms a single source photograph into a vertical before-and-after stacked layout featuring the original photo on top and a realistic cutout over a cream paper background with thin black ink doodles on the bottom.
Prompt Text
Ready to copy & executeCreate a vertical 4:5 before-and-after image split into two stacked panels of equal height.
TOP PANEL (before): the original photograph exactly as provided, completely unedited — same subject, pose, background, colors and lighting. Full bleed to the panel edges.
BOTTOM PANEL (after): the same person or people, still fully photographic and realistic, cut out from the original photo and placed centered on a warm cream off-white paper background. Keep their face, identity, expression, pose, clothing and proportions exactly as in the photo — never illustrate, stylize, smooth or redraw the subject. Clean cutout edges including hair.
Replace the entire background with charming hand-drawn doodles in thin black pen line art — monoline, no fill, light and loose like a sketchbook, with a little character and personality in the linework.
Use about eight doodle elements, balanced across the panel. Draw one or two simplified landmarks or buildings from the original background, one on each side of the subject at small scale. Add two or three small cartoon figures doing light actions that suit the scene — riding a bicycle, walking a dog, taking a photo, waving from a shop, holding a balloon. Add three or four small accents scattered in the open areas: a cloud, a sparkle or two, a paper plane with a dotted trail, a musical note, a few flowers or small plants near the ground.
Compose it with breathing room. Keep every doodle at roughly a third of the subject's height or less, and rest the buildings and figures along a shared ground line so the panel has a clear horizon. Let the accents float higher in the empty upper corners to fill the space lightly. Leave a clear margin of untouched cream around the subject on all sides — doodles never overlap or touch them — and keep visible cream gaps between neighbouring elements so nothing clusters.
Ground the subject with a thin sketchy horizontal line under the feet with a few short hatch marks and a soft natural shadow. Keep it light, not a dense scribble.
Place a short handwritten caption in the open upper-left area: three lines, three to five words each, casual lowercase handwriting in thin black ink, warm and reflective in tone. Add one small red hand-drawn heart just below it with space around it.
Everything in the lower panel is black line on cream, except three or four tiny color accents — a red heart, pink flowers, a yellow sparkle. The subject alone stays in full photographic color.
Avoid: a cluttered or busy background, doodles filling every corner, doodles overlapping or touching the subject, large doodles rivaling the subject's size, three or more buildings, dense scribbled shadows, heavy thick linework, shading or crosshatching, long caption text, more than three lines of text, an illustrated or cartoon subject, changed face or identity, beautified skin, altered clothing or pose, colored or filled doodles, 3D rendering, side-by-side panels, watermark.Introduction
This prompt guides ChatGPT in generating a structured, dual-panel vertical composition. The top panel preserves the original photograph in its entirety, while the bottom panel isolates the photographic subject and sets them against a warm cream background accented by minimalist hand-drawn sketches. Strict negative constraints ensure the human subject remains entirely unaltered and photographic rather than stylized.
Prompt Details
Concept & Creative Objective
To present a side-by-side comparative display showing an unaltered photograph alongside a creative composition where the real subject is merged with minimalist, sketchbook-style black ink doodles and a handwritten caption.
Why This Prompt Works
The prompt establishes clear spatial boundaries by specifying an equal-height 4:5 vertical split, exact stacking instructions, and explicit compositional rules. It dictates precise positioning for background elements, scale limits to keep doodles smaller than the subject, and strict color parameters to restrict hues to a cream background, thin black linework, and selective color accents.
Prompt Breakdown
The prompt mandates a two-panel vertical layout with a 4:5 aspect ratio. The top panel retains the unedited source photograph. The bottom panel keeps the subject in full photographic color while replacing the background with a warm cream paper texture, thin monoline black ink sketches, a ground line, a sparse distribution of about eight doodle elements, a three-line lowercase handwritten caption, and a small red heart accent. A comprehensive list of negative constraints prevents the subject from being illustrated or altered.
Instructions
Customization Tips
You can modify the requested doodle elements in the bottom panel to better match the theme of your source photo, adjust the tone of the short handwritten caption, or change the specific sparse color accents while maintaining the core black line-on-cream aesthetic.
Generation Best Practices
Provide a clear source photograph with a distinct subject to ensure the tool can accurately isolate and cutout the figure. Ensure the output tool supports detailed multi-panel generation and text rendering according to the specified constraints.
Help & Answers
Frequently Asked Questions
A vertical 4:5 image with the original photo in the top half and a redesigned version in the bottom half.