Pop Art & Warhol Style Portrait Generator

## ROLE

You are a Pop Art visual artist and printmaking specialist who works in the tradition of the 1960s Pop Art movement while bringing contemporary subject matter and production techniques to the genre. You understand silkscreen printing aesthetics, CMYK color separation, halftone dot patterns, the visual language of mass media and advertising, and how to transform any photographic source into a bold, graphic, instantly recognizable Pop Art statement.

## OBJECTIVE

Create a Pop Art portrait or composition featuring [SUBJECT: a person's portrait / a consumer product / a celebrity / a pet / a food item / an everyday object elevated to icon status / a self-portrait / a cultural symbol]. The style draws primarily from [POP ART INFLUENCE: Warhol's silkscreen portraits with flat color blocks and registration misalignment / Lichtenstein's Ben-Day dot comic book aesthetic with thick outlines and primary colors / Rosenquist's fragmented billboard-scale collage / Keith Haring's bold outlines and kinetic figures / Takashi Murakami's Superflat Japanese Pop / Banksy's stencil-meets-pop-culture aesthetic]. The work should feel [TONE: celebratory and iconic / ironic and critical / playful and accessible / bold and confrontational / nostalgic and warm].

## POP ART VISUAL CONSTRUCTION

### Warhol-Style Multi-Panel Grid
If creating a Warhol-inspired grid portrait:
- **Grid Configuration:** [LAYOUT: 2x2 (classic Marilyn format) / 3x3 (nine variations) / 4x4 (mass production statement) / 1x4 horizontal strip / single panel with color-block background]
- **Base Image Processing:** Start with a high-contrast photographic source, reduce to [NUMBER: 3-5] tonal values (pure black outlines, dark shadow, mid-tone, highlight, and paper white). Remove all subtle gradation — every area of the face and figure falls into one of these flat tonal zones.
- **Color Variation Per Panel:** Each panel in the grid uses a different color combination. Panel palettes: [PANEL 1: hot pink face / electric blue hair / yellow background], [PANEL 2: orange face / green hair / violet background], [PANEL 3: turquoise face / red hair / white background], [PANEL 4: yellow face / black hair / red background]. Colors should be [SATURATION: fully saturated primaries and secondaries / slightly muted as if the silkscreen ink is imperfect / neon fluorescent for maximum impact].
- **Registration Misalignment:** In authentic silkscreen printing, each color layer is printed in a separate pass, and slight misregistration creates color bleeding beyond the outlines. Simulate this with [MISALIGNMENT: 2-4 pixel shift of the color layers relative to the black outline layer, creating visible gaps where the paper shows through and overlaps where colors bleed beyond their boundaries]. This "imperfection" is what gives Warhol prints their living, handmade quality despite the mechanical process.

### Lichtenstein-Style Comic Panel
If creating a Lichtenstein-inspired composition:
- **Ben-Day Dot Pattern:** The entire image is constructed from visible halftone dots at [DOT SIZE: small (subtle texture) / medium (clearly visible pattern) / large (bold graphic statement)]. Different color areas use different dot densities: skin tones at 40-60% density, shadows at 80-100%, highlights at 10-20% or paper white. The dots should be [PATTERN: perfectly regular mechanical grid / slightly irregular suggesting hand-printing / CMYK-separated with visible color moiré patterns].
- **Outline Treatment:** Every form is defined by [OUTLINE WEIGHT: 3-6pt thick black outlines (Lichtenstein standard) / variable weight outlines thicker at shadow edges / blue or dark color outlines instead of black for softer effect]. Outlines are clean and confident with no sketchy uncertainty — they are the graphic equivalent of inking a comic book panel.
- **Subject & Narrative:** The composition depicts [SCENE: a dramatic close-up face with a thought or speech bubble containing [TEXT] / a single object isolated against a flat color background / a cropped panel from an imagined comic strip showing a moment of [EMOTION: shock / romance / action / despair / triumph] / a diptych pairing an intimate personal moment with a public commercial image].
- **Color Palette:** Strict Lichtenstein primaries — pure red, pure blue, pure yellow, black, and white. No color mixing, no gradients, no earth tones. Every area is one flat, unmodulated primary or a visible dot-pattern mix of two primaries creating optical secondary colors (red dots on yellow ground = orange; blue dots on yellow = green).

### Typography & Text Integration
Pop Art embraces commercial typography:
- **Speech/Thought Bubbles:** If included, use [STYLE: classic comic balloon with tail pointing to speaker / blocky rectangular caption box / hand-lettered look with slight imperfection / stenciled military/industrial typography]
- **Text Content:** [TEXT: a single impactful word (LOVE, BOOM, WOW, DREAM) / a short phrase that transforms mundane into profound / brand name or logo reimagined / onomatopoeia in oversized display type]
- **Sound Effects:** For Lichtenstein style, include graphic sound effects — [EFFECTS: BLAM!, WHAAM!, POW!, BRATATAT!] — in bold, perspective-distorted lettering with starburst backgrounds

### Production & Print Authenticity
The final image should appear as if it were [PRODUCTION METHOD: a freshly pulled silkscreen print on thick cotton rag paper with visible ink texture and slight edge bleed / a printed poster with CMYK dot structure visible at close range / a gallery-quality giclée reproduction of a hand-painted original / a commercial print with deliberate imperfections — a hair caught in the ink, a slight smear at one edge, paper crease marks]. This production authenticity separates compelling Pop Art from simple color filters applied to photographs.

### Midjourney Parameters
```
--ar 1:1 --v 6.1 --s 350 --chaos 15 --style raw
```
For multi-panel grid: --ar 1:1 for 2x2, --ar 3:3 for grid. For horizontal comic strip: --ar 3:1. For single dramatic portrait: --ar 4:5. Add --no photograph, photorealistic, gradient, subtle to enforce the flat, graphic Pop Art aesthetic. Use --s 500+ for more stylized results.