1️⃣ DESIGN TYPE, FORMAT & TEXT
Design Category: Professional Album Cover / Promotional Flyer
Format: Square (1:1) / Vertical Portrait (4:5) for social media/streaming
Primary Title Text (Top): THE STREET IS WATCHING
Secondary Text (Foreground): ARTIST: [YOUR ARTIST NAME]
Credit Text (Bottom Center): PRODUCED BY [YOUR PRODUCER NAME]
Logo Text (Top Right): [Scales of Justice Logo]
Logo Text (Bottom Right): [Spotify Logo]
2️⃣ VISUAL CONCEPT
A raw, gritty, and cinematic trap/drill-influenced aesthetic, focusing on respect, surveillance, and survival. The design merges documentary-style photojournalism with premium street art.
3️⃣ COMPOSITION & LAYOUT
Focal Point: The subject, seen from a direct, eye-level angle, locked into the frame by their own large, outstretched hands creating a "camera lens" effect.
Visual Hierarchy: Large title text is the first read, followed by the subject, then the primary artist name, and finally credits/logos.
Text Placement: Title sits above the subject's head. Artist credit is centered on the pavement below the shoes.
4️⃣ TYPOGRAPHY DIRECTION
Primary Font Personality: Bold, distressed, and authoritative urban-serif (like a gritty headline).
Mood: Direct, impactful, and street-centric. Text must feel heavy and earned, not floating.
5️⃣ COLOR & TEXTURE SYSTEM
Palette: Deep, desaturated urban blues/grays, weathered sepia for text, and a highly textural camo pattern.
Contrast: High contrast, prioritizing deep shadows and textural grit over color saturation.
Text Rendering: Text must appear heavily distressed, gritty, and weathered, integrated directly into the image’s texture.
6️⃣ IMAGERY & SUBJECT TREATMENT
Subject: A man (or person) with a strong, natural presence and defined natural hair, wearing specific, detailed urban fashion (matching the camo pants, star cap, white tee, and mustard yellow shoes from the reference).
Pose: The unique, identity-framing pose from the reference photo must be preserved exactly, with the hands forming the camera box.
Face: Photorealistic natural skin texture, preserving all pores, lines, and imperfections. No smoothing or beauty filters.
7️⃣ LIGHTING & REALISM
Lighting: Dark, directional urban lighting (documentary flash/streetlamp mix), emphasizing deep shadows under the cap and hands. Gritty and non-idealized.
8️⃣ QUALITY CONSTRAINTS
"No AI artifacts."
"No beauty smoothing or skin retouching."
"Documentary realism."
"Professional agency-level design."
"No generic layouts."
🔁 IDENTITY INSTRUCTION (CRITICAL):
Replace the subject’s identity entirely with the uploaded reference photo.
Preserve the reference face exactly as-is, including natural proportions, asymmetry, and skin texture.
Do not beautify, smooth, idealize, or modify facial features.
Identity accuracy is more important than design aesthetics.