Short-Curled Adult · Short Lighting

SUBJECT
One adult with short curly hair, a relaxed closed mouth, and a plain charcoal crewneck shirt. The head turns toward image-right while the shoulders remain nearly frontal; the eyes follow the head's direction.

COMPOSITION
An eye-level, chest-up portrait in a vertical frame. Place the head slightly left of center, leaving modest open space toward image-right in front of the face. Keep both cheeks visible and the entire hair silhouette inside the frame.

STYLE GUIDE
1. Shape & line
Construct the turned face with a narrow visible cheek on image-right and a broad visible cheek on image-left. Let the nose project toward image-right, and curve the mouth and jaw around the same head volume; group the short curls into a few rounded masses with restrained individual strands.

2. Color & light
Place one broad key light above and to image-right so it illuminates the narrow image-right cheek. Keep the broad image-left cheek in a connected shadow mass, with a soft transition across the nose and cheek curvature. Use muted natural skin colors and faint fill that reveals the shadow-side eye without making the two cheeks equally bright.

3. Texture & material
Render skin with broad, softly blended painted passages and sparse visible brush texture. Make the curls more broken and textured than the skin, and keep the shirt matte with only a few broad folds; reserve the sharpest small accents for the eyelids, nostrils, and mouth corners.

4. Composition
Use a quiet mid-gray background and keep the brightest facial area on the narrow image-right cheek. Arrange the chest-up crop so the shadowed image-left cheek remains readable against the background, while the open space on image-right supports the direction of the face without competing details.

PRIORITY
Preserve the requested identity, count, action, composition and output settings. Apply the style rules within those constraints; a style reference must not replace the subject or layout. Within the style: Prioritize the visible brightness difference between the narrow lit cheek and the broad shadowed cheek.

AVOID
Avoid frontal lighting, equal cheek brightness, and a bright rim that competes with the cheek light.

OUTPUT
Create one realistic painted portrait with a 4:5 aspect ratio, without lettering, captions, logos, or watermarks.

SELF-CHECK
Confirm that the face turns toward image-right and the image-right key lights the narrow cheek while the broad image-left cheek stays shadowed.