Mid-century inspired cut-paper and gouache illustration with chunky dark outlines, imperfect painted edges, layered flat shapes, dry-brush scuffs and fine paper grain. Simplify people or pets into playful broad geometry with dot eyes, emphatic brows, blocky features, circular cheek shapes and short texture marks. Use colours and surfaces from the supplied photo, reducing busy surroundings to airy flat shapes. Keep flat cheerful light, bold close cropping and small graphic doodles. Subjects may be re-posed in a way that suits the style. No text or lettering. A skateboard deck is painted as a flag with the canton at the nose and thirteen stripes running to the tail over four cream wheels. One wheel carries a single small star hubcap. No lettering.
Light: flat graphic daylight; palette of signal red, ink navy and maple cream; loud, fast, playful.
Tall 9:16 portrait frame, composed vertically with the main line of the scene rising through the height of the frame. The standard flag shows exactly thirteen horizontal stripes starting and ending with red and a blue canton with star rows in the upper hoist corner; any interpretive flag stays recognisable and is never torn, burned, defaced or on the ground. No readable text, lettering, slogans or logos anywhere; any people are fictional fully clothed adults. Isolated on a fully transparent background, alpha = 0 everywhere outside the artwork, not white, not coloured, no checkerboard pattern, a real alpha channel; complete and unclipped with a wide transparent margin and a soft semi-transparent contact shadow.
