Design & Media: Creating Ugly-Cute Doodle Characters

Creative Stack & Specs

• Core Toolset: GPT (for DALL-E image generation) / Midjourney
• Target Medium: Flat 2D Digital Illustration (Marker/Crayon Style)
• Key Parameters:
  — Canvas_Ratio: Vertical 9:16
  — Negative_Constraints: No realism, no gradient, no shadow, no extra eyes or nostrils.

Step-by-Step Production Workflow

1. Character Reference Setup: Upload a face photograph to serve as the primary appearance reference ($face_ref). Identify key traits including head shape, hairline, eye spacing, and lips.
   
2. Prompt Engineering - Poster Layouting: Apply specific layout constraints:
   Center a compact warm-white paper rectangle [76-82% width] on a solid saturated background.
   (Options for color include hot pink, cobalt blue, orange, coral red, lemon yellow, bright green, turquoise, or purple)
3. Stylized Rendering Execution: Execute prompt using strict marker doodle aesthetics if generating via certain LLM interfaces:
   Strictly flat 2D ugly-cute marker doodle with thick near-black contours; heavy wobble, uneven pressure, blunt ends, gaps, overruns, and clumsy joins.
   
4. Text Integration (Layout Logic): For 'I am cool' poster style, place text according='s placement instructions ('i am' in small handwriting/blue area, 'cool' across middle eyes) rather than standard header blocks.
   
5. Animal Caricature Workflow (Alternative): To transform pet photos into doodles use:\nTurn this photo into a doodle-style character that looks intentionally ugly and funny... Use a rough black outline like crayon or pencil, with messy scribble coloring.
   

Style Consistency & Quality Controls

• Anatomy Control: Prevent extra features by enforcing lack of neck, body, ears, or hands ($no_body). Ensure nose line stops above the eye gap to avoid incorrect nostril rendering.
  
• Color Management: Map all skin complexions strictly to flat bubblegum pink regardless of original input color to maintain aesthetic consistency.
  
• Negative Prompting Strategy:to prevent artifacts such as 3D render look, vector art cleanliness, perfectionist symmetry, sssmall mouth sizey noses,
  and unwanted shadows이나 gradients should be excluded via negative constraints:
  (No realism, no shadow, no gradient, no perfect symmetry, no thin clean lines, no photorealistic detail, no shiny hair/strands).
  

Bottom Line: This pipeline transforms standard photography (faces/animals) into highly stylized, expressive 'ugly-cute' hand-drawn digital assets through strict structural layouts and low-fidelity marker textures.

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