Create a 9:16 experimental character poster using a close or waist-up portrait with expressive body language.
Keep most of the portrait in high-contrast black and white, then add a clear halftone screen-print effect. Use finer dots on the face and denser dots in the hair, clothing and shadows, so it feels like a printed zine rather than simple photo grain.
Add one color scan window through an important part of the portrait. It can run vertically across the eye, face and hand, horizontally through the eyes and gesture, or extend from the face down into the collar and body.
Inside this window, return to clean high-resolution photography with realistic cool-neutral skin, blue-grey shadows and natural lip tones. Keep it crisp and free of halftone texture so the contrast between “printed portrait” and “real detail” feels obvious.
Use oversized condensed typography as part of the composition rather than placing a title in empty space. Let the letters crop off the canvas, overlap the body, pass behind the subject or cut across the scan window.
Keep the palette restrained: black, white and cool grey as the base, then one cool blue and one muted red / burgundy as accents.
Only add a few small identity-style labels such as “IDENTITY TRACE”, “SUBJECT ACTIVE”, “GESTURE READ” or “FEATURE ACTIVE”. A few thin lines, circles and open corner marks are enough.
The final image should feel like a mix of youth-culture poster, printed zine, character dossier and experimental magazine editorial.
Avoid warm yellow grading, multiple random scan windows, floating facial features, heavy glitch effects, dense UI graphics, long paragraphs, numbering, Vol./Issue labels, sparkle symbols, logos or watermarks.
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