Kamancheh Player, Expressive Painterly Portrait

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Create a vertical 3:4 painterly portrait of only one person: the person in the uploaded photo, playing the kamancheh, the Persian spike fiddle. IDENTITY LOCK (absolute priority) The uploaded photo is the only reference for who this person is. The result must show the exact same individual, not someone who looks similar. Preserve exactly: face shape and bone structure, proportions and spacing of the features, eye shape and color, eyebrows, nose, lips, jawline, chin, ears, natural asymmetries, skin tone and natural skin texture, facial hair, hairline and hair color, and their real apparent age. Do not beautify, slim, smooth, symmetrize, idealize, age, de-age or redesign the face. Do not add wrinkles, forehead lines, under-eye bags, hollow cheeks, sagging or weathered skin. The person must not look older, more tired or more worn than in the photo. The art style below applies to everything except facial anatomy. If style and likeness ever conflict, likeness wins. POSE AND FRAMING Framed from the upper thighs up, seated, body turned slightly to one side. Head tilted gently down and forward, eyes lowered toward the instrument, a calm, inward, listening expression. Shoulders relaxed. THE KAMANCHEH (must be correct) The instrument stands vertically in front of the player. Its round resonating bowl, with a skin-covered face and a small bridge, rests near the lap and knee; the metal spike at the bottom points down toward the floor. A long, narrow wooden neck rises upward, ending in a carved head with turned tuning pegs. Keep authentic proportions: small round body, long neck, thin strings running from the spike end to the pegs. It is never held under the chin or against the shoulder like a violin, and never held like a guitar. HANDS AND BOW The left hand supports the neck and presses the strings with natural, relaxed fingers. The right hand holds the bow horizontally, crossing the strings just above the bridge, with the bow hair touching the strings. Hands are anatomically correct: five fingers each, believable joints, real contact between fingers, neck and bow. One bow only, straight and complete. CLOTHING A dark, simple shirt, and a muted brick-red shawl draped loosely over both shoulders, falling down the sides without hiding most of the torso. STYLE AND TECHNIQUE Contemporary expressive figurative painting: loose dry brushwork, gestural sketch lines, charcoal-like hatching, broken edges, matte texture and selective detail, with an intentionally unfinished editorial feel. The clothing, hands, instrument and lower body dissolve progressively into looser, unfinished strokes toward the bottom and edges. FACE TREATMENT The face is painted cleaner, softer and more controlled than the rest, focused on likeness, with minimal hatching. No distressed texture, harsh charcoal lines or broken strokes on the face. Keep the facial volume, skin smoothness and under-eye appearance of the photo. PALETTE A limited, muted palette: pale brick red, burnt terracotta, rust and earth tones, warm gray, charcoal black, soft beige, ochre and gentle cream highlights. No vivid colors, no strong blues or greens. BACKGROUND AND MOOD Plain medium warm gray with generous negative space and a few soft brush marks, nothing that competes with the figure. Quiet, introspective, artistic, slightly melancholic. AVOID A different or generic face, older-looking face, added wrinkles or deeper lines, sunken cheeks, under-eye aging, photorealistic rendering, malformed hands, extra or missing fingers, duplicated limbs, wrong kamancheh shape, violin posture, instrument under the chin, guitar-like hand position, wrong bow direction, broken or duplicated bow, saturated colors, busy background, text, signatures, logos, watermarks.

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