Bandaged Butterfly Portrait

Use the uploaded user photo as the ONLY and STRICT source of the human subject’s identity. Preserve the user’s exact recognizable identity with maximum fidelity: facial structure, facial proportions, face shape, forehead, eyebrows, nose, lips, mouth structure, jawline, cheekbones, chin, skin tone, natural skin texture, hairline, facial hair if present, age, and every distinctive facial characteristic. Do not replace, redesign, beautify, slim, reshape, masculinize, feminize, age, de-age, or reinterpret the user’s face. The final subject must unmistakably remain the same person from the uploaded photo. The reference image must control everything except identity.
Recreate the reference as a highly photorealistic, cinematic, surreal editorial portrait in a vertical approximately 4:5 composition. Show the user’s identity as a centered human subject facing directly toward the camera in an extremely tight head-and-shoulders close-up. The head is upright and almost perfectly frontal, with only a very subtle natural downward chin angle. The face occupies most of the frame, with the top of the head partially cropped and the shoulders extending toward the lower edge. The subject has a calm, serious, mysterious, emotionally restrained expression. The lips are gently closed or very slightly parted with a soft natural tension, creating a quiet contemplative mood rather than a smile.
Because the reference subject’s eyes are completely covered by layered fabric, do not reveal or invent a visible gaze; reproduce the concealed-eye effect exactly. Preserve the user’s real facial identity beneath the covering so that the visible nose, lips, cheeks, jawline, chin, and overall facial proportions remain unmistakably theirs.
Wrap the head and eyes in multiple layers of tightly wound off-white/cream medical gauze or textured cotton bandage fabric. The bandages should begin around the upper forehead and crown, continue horizontally across the entire eye region, completely obscuring both eyes and eyebrows, and extend downward across the upper cheeks while leaving the nose, nostrils, mouth, lower cheeks, jawline, and chin clearly visible. Reproduce the layered overlapping fabric with fine woven texture, realistic fibers, subtle wrinkles, compression, folds, tension lines, and natural irregularities. The gauze should appear wrapped several times around the head rather than floating or digitally painted.
Add another thick series of gauze layers around the neck, tightly encircling it from beneath the jaw down toward the collar, creating a sculptural wrapped-neck appearance. Ensure the fabric follows realistic anatomy and remains physically connected around the head and neck.
Place several large black or extremely dark charcoal butterflies naturally on and around the bandaged head. One prominent butterfly should rest on the upper-left side of the wrapped head near the temple/forehead area, angled slightly outward. Another large butterfly should sit on the upper-right side of the head, positioned partly over the bandage near the temple, with detailed dark wings extending outward. Add another butterfly on the left side of the face around the cheek/temple region, its wings spread naturally. Add another butterfly on the right cheek area beside the nose and mouth region, appearing delicately perched against the subject’s skin and bandage. Include additional dark butterflies softly blurred in the background, including faint silhouettes toward the upper and lower sides of the frame, creating depth.
The butterflies must have realistic anatomy, thin legs, delicate antennae, subtle wing veins, layered scales, natural asymmetry, and believable contact with the subject and surrounding air. Their wings should be deep matte black/charcoal with subtle highlights rather than pure flat black.
Dress the subject in a minimalist oversized black or very dark charcoal high-collared coat or structured jacket. The coat should cover the shoulders and upper torso, with broad dark lapels or overlapping fabric visible beneath the wrapped neck. Keep the clothing understated, elegant, contemporary, and editorial, with realistic woven texture and soft folds.
The background should be an atmospheric muted blue-green/teal-gray studio environment with a soft cloudy, fog-like appearance. Use a smooth but slightly textured gradient background, darker toward the edges and subtly brighter behind the head, producing a gentle halo-like separation around the silhouette. Include very soft out-of-focus butterfly shapes and indistinct smoky forms in the distant background. The environment should feel dreamlike, surreal, quiet, melancholic, mysterious, and slightly haunting while remaining sophisticated rather than horror-oriented.
Lighting should closely reproduce the reference: soft diffused frontal/upper-front illumination combined with subtle side lighting, creating gentle highlights on the nose bridge, nostrils, lips, cheekbones, and bandage texture while maintaining deep but smooth shadows under the chin and around the neck. Use low-key cinematic lighting with soft falloff, controlled contrast, muted highlights, delicate atmospheric diffusion, and a cool teal-gray overall color palette.
Keep the visible skin natural and realistic, including pores, subtle tonal variation, fine texture, and authentic facial anatomy. Do not excessively smooth the skin or apply beauty retouching. The bandage should catch soft light with realistic off-white tonal variation and slightly greenish reflections from the environment.
Use shallow depth of field: the central face and nearest bandage layers should be highly detailed and sharply rendered while background butterflies and atmospheric forms become progressively softer and more defocused.
Simulate a professional full-frame editorial camera using approximately a 70–100mm portrait lens, around f/2.8–f/4, with natural perspective and minimal facial distortion. Camera positioned directly in front of the subject at approximately eye level, close to the face, producing a symmetrical centered composition.
Maintain the same visual scale and crop as the reference: head dominant in the frame, shoulders visible only in the lower portion, ample atmospheric background around the sides, and no unnecessary body or environment expansion.
Reproduce the reference’s cinematic photographic realism, premium fashion-editorial aesthetic, subtle filmic texture, soft bloom, restrained grain, realistic micro-contrast, atmospheric haze, and slightly desaturated teal-and-black color grading. Preserve natural proportions and anatomy at all times.
The butterflies, bandages, skin, clothing, shadows, and background must interact physically and convincingly.
Keep the overall composition clean, centered, symmetrical, premium, surreal, cinematic, and visually striking. Do not introduce smiling, exaggerated emotion, visible eyes, alternate facial identity, extra facial features, extra limbs, distorted anatomy, plastic skin, excessive makeup, fantasy-colored butterflies, bright saturated colors, or a different camera angle.
FINAL PRIORITY: user photo = exact identity; reference image = concealed-eye facial presentation, emotion, head position, pose, composition, bandages, butterflies, clothing, environment, lighting, camera perspective, color palette, atmosphere, and visual style.