Prompt to convert travel photos into black-ink architectural observation sketch posters

Please convert each travel photo I upload into an independent “Rapid-Line Architectural Observation” editorial poster — output one poster per photo. Do not create multi-photo collages; each photo must be output separately.

Overall use a 3:4 portrait composition. Retain the upper area with a substantive portion of the original photograph, accurately preserving building identity, number of floors, proportions, domes, towers, eaves, colonnades, arches, roads, waterfronts, people, and spatial relationships. Apply only slight art-publication color grading and a very thin film grain; do not stretch, move, reshape, or illustrate the photographic subject.

For the lower area, use warm natural off-white sketch paper and actively reduce, omit, and reorganize the building from the same photo into an unfinished rapid black-ink architectural observation. Do not fully replicate the photo background; keep only the decisive elements that identify the place: main outline, primary axis, roof or spire, rhythm of openings, and one to three necessary direction lines such as roads, bridges, waterfronts, or tree-shadow lines.

Draw using black fountain pen, technical/needle pen, and a small amount of dry brush-tip strokes. Contours should show repeated searching and correction; retain overlapping lines, double contours, hand tremor, pauses, broken ink, overdrawn lines, and un-erased trial marks. Establish colonnades with urgent vertical strokes and use short dense hatch lines to consolidate structural junctions. Concentrate black density only at a few key nodes — do not evenly saturate the entire building.

The architectural sketch should occupy about 45%–65% of the lower area’s width and 38%–58% of its height; it may be biased to one side. Preserve at least 40%–55% of continuous, intact paper white. Lines should naturally stop on the paper surface; boundaries must be clear but unfinished. Do not use digital feathering, soft focus, or regular rectangular picture frames.

In the lower area use only paper white and carbon-black ink. Do not add watercolor, gray washes, colored lines, or fixed accent colors.

Add a small amount of text based on the photo facts:
- A main title of 1–3 English words;
- The field “INK NOTE 01”;
- One on-site observation sentence of 5–10 English words.

Place the text within the continuous paper-white area. Use narrow type or plain handwriting with ink absorbency and slight gaps, and optionally accompany it with a short ink line. The title must be clearly readable at normal preview size and must not be reduced to a decorative gray line.

The overall result should feel like an architect or travel sketcher standing on site, quickly searching the structure: acute, brisk, restrained, incomplete, yet accurately preserving the building’s character.

Avoid: photo outline filters, CAD-style drafting, uniform fine hatching, academic pen drawings, full-page dense hatching, complete backgrounds, transparent watercolor, gray washes, colored pastels, softened edges, isomorphic composition copying, unreadable small text, author name, signature, logo, QR code, or watermark.

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Summary

You can create 3:4 portrait posters that retain the travel photo at the top and reconstruct the lower part as an unfinished black-ink architectural sketch on warm off-white paper. Useful for finishing architectural photos or street-walk records for travel booklets, social media, or portfolios. Upload your travel/architectural photos and then send the original text as-is. An input image is required; there are no replacement slots.