Pirate portrait digital-painting study

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Single subject: a middle-aged bearded pirate occupies the center of a 2:3 vertical frame, filling roughly half the image vertically with the hat touching the upper third and generous negative space around the shoulders in the upper two-thirds of the composition. The face is eye-level and slightly turned to the viewer's right, with a leather eyepatch over the left eye and a faint scar at the right cheek, and the right hand rests on a saber located in the lower-right third. Hair and beard are long, tangled dreadlocks mixed with pale sandy strands and dark braids, threaded with wooden beads, coins and small charms arranged along the left and right thirds. Costume materials include worn brown leather coat with stitched seams and brass buttons, layered necklaces with a small skull pendant at center, a wide belt with coin-like trinkets across the lower center, and multiple tarnished rings on the visible hand. Lighting is low-key with a warm rim and soft key from camera-right that sculpts facial planes and yields deep, painterly shadows across the left side of the face and coat. Background is a soft, smoky neutral occupying the upper two-thirds and receding into deep shadow behind the shoulders to emphasize the subject. Render as a photorealistic digital-painting with visible textured brushwork on leather and hair, crisp catchlights in the right eye, subtle surface grime, and fine metallic highlights on buttons and rings.
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Prompt breakdown
The image prompt captures subject, setting, and style cues. Primary themes: bearded-pirate, character-study, dark-fantasy, digital-painting.
Technical details
The image model used to generate this AI artwork was GPT-Image-1.5. Prompt writing was assisted by gpt-5-mini. Aspect ratio is 2:3.
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