# Black and White Pencil Portrait

> A realistic graphite-style bust portrait of a serene young woman with detailed eyes, soft shading, and loosely swept hair for elegant character or portrait…

- Type: single prompt
- Written for: [GPT Image 2](https://orisu.ai/prompts/m/gpt-image-2)
- Category: [Portrait](https://orisu.ai/prompts/c/portrait)
- Tags: Minimal, Beauty, Editorial, Fashion, Starter
- Published: 2026-09-08
- Page: https://orisu.ai/prompts/pencil-portrait-woman

## Prompt

- Model: GPT Image 2

```text
Create an ultra-detailed black-and-white pencil line-art portrait of a young woman with delicate symmetrical features on a clean white paper background. Show a front-facing bust portrait cropped from the shoulders upward, with the head slightly turned but eyes looking directly at the viewer. The expression is calm and gentle with a faint closed-mouth smile. Render large almond-shaped eyes with detailed irises and catchlights, softly arched dark eyebrows, a slim straight nose, full softly shaded lips, smooth oval face, and a long graceful neck. Style the hair as dark medium-length hair parted in the center, loosely swept back into a soft messy updo with wispy strands framing both sides of the face. Use meticulous graphite pencil technique: fine layered linework, realistic cross-hatching, subtle tonal gradients, visible individual hair strokes, delicate skin shading, and crisp facial detail while keeping the shoulders and lower bust lightly sketched and fading into the white background. Maintain a realistic yet idealized fashion-illustration look, high contrast in the hair, soft shading on the face, no color, no background objects, no text, no watermark.
```

Variables you can change (shown above with their defaults):

- character description: a young woman with delicate symmetrical features
- hairstyle: dark medium-length hair parted in the center, loosely swept back into a soft messy updo with wispy strands framing both sides of the face

## Example output

- ![Black and White Pencil Portrait — example output](https://assets.orisu.ai/prompt-library/youmind/pencil-portrait-woman.jpg)

## Credit

- Author: Arina Ai (https://x.com/Arina_hoqe)
- Original post: https://x.com/Arina_hoqe/status/2096433825509241309#reversed-0
- Collected via: youmind.com

## Run it in Orisu

Orisu runs this prompt on your own product, model or brand, with dozens of image and video models under one account. Start free: https://app.orisu.ai/auth/sign-up?utm_source=prompt-library&utm_medium=cta&utm_campaign=prompts&utm_content=pencil-portrait-woman&utm_term=markdown&prompt=pencil-portrait-woman

Source: Orisu prompt library, https://orisu.ai/prompts/pencil-portrait-woman