Image - 2026-09-04 05:50

Use the attached image as the strict style and character reference. This is the same character, now destitute and starving. KEEP EXACTLY THE SAME AS THE REFERENCE The same face structure, the same eye shape and size, the same nose, the same hairstyle and hair colour #241B33, the same skin tone #F0C094 with #D19A6E hard-edged shading on the lower-right of every form. The same line style: uniform ink #241B33 outline of the same weight, flat fills, one darker shade on the lower-right and one lighter tint on the upper-left of each colour, one small white highlight per form. No gradients, no blur, no texture. The same camera: straight front view, orthographic, no perspective, no tilt, character facing the viewer dead-on. The same framing: tall portrait canvas, fully transparent background, character centred horizontally, total height from the top of his hair to the soles of his feet identical to the reference, feet resting on the same baseline at the same height in the frame. The same head size and the same head position in the frame. WHAT CHANGES Body: now painfully thin and undernourished. Arms and legs are noticeably narrower than in the reference, a hollow narrow chest, a sunken stomach, sharp collarbones drawn as two short simple lines, and three faint short rib lines on each side of his chest. Keep it stylised and simple — thin flat shapes, not anatomical detail. Clothing: he wears nothing but a pair of plain, worn, dull grey #B9B3C4 boxer shorts. Bare chest, bare arms, bare legs, bare feet — no shirt, no shoes, no socks, no accessories, no hat. Condition: a few small irregular grey-brown dirt smudges on his shins, forearms and one cheek. Hair messier and more uneven than in the reference, sticking out in a few directions, a little dull. Mood: hungry and deeply sad. Eyebrows angled up towards the middle in a pleading arch, upper eyelids drawn as flat lines lowering the eyes, dark #D19A6E shadow patches under both eyes, a small downturned mouth. He is not crying and not comical — just quietly miserable. His shoulders sag slightly and his head tilts down by a tiny amount, no more than a few degrees. Pose: legs and feet stay exactly as in the reference, straight and together on the same baseline. Only the arms change: both arms bend forward and hold a cardboard sign in front of his stomach, at waist height, mitten hands gripping the lower corners of the sign. THE SIGN A rectangular piece of scrappy brown cardboard, wider than it is tall, held flat and facing the viewer. Slightly uneven hand-torn edges, one soft crease across it, a muted cardboard brown with a #241B33 outline of the same weight as everything else and one darker brown shade along its lower-right. On the cardboard: three or four rows of dark wobbly handwriting-like scribbles — continuous uneven squiggly lines that only imitate handwriting. They must not form any real letters, words, numbers or symbols in any alphabet. Uneven row lengths, the last row shorter than the others. The sign must not cover his face and must not extend past the left and right edges of the canvas. NOT Not photorealistic, not a 3D render, not sketchy, no pencil or marker strokes, no watercolour, no pixel art, no three-quarter or isometric view, no anime style, no chibi proportions. No background, no ground, no shadow on the floor. No readable text anywhere in the image.