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Please create a separate “CHARCOAL VANISHING TRAVEL STUDY｜Charcoal Vanishing Travel Sketch” advanced comparative poster for each travel photo I upload. Output each photo individually, without collage or multi-image combinations. Overall, adopt a 3:4 vertical composition, consisting of two regions: the authentic original image and the charcoal sketch. The division should be clear and the composition restrained, but no need to mechanically pursue perfectly equal proportions for the regions. By default, let the top authentic photo occupy about 48%–52%, with the bottom charcoal sketch taking up the remaining space. 【Top: Authentic Original Image】 The top faithfully preserves the original photo. Accurately maintain the subject's identity, quantity, pose, movement direction, terrain structure, architectural outlines, spatial relationships, natural light and shadow, authentic textures, and the original color atmosphere. It must be clear to viewers that this is the original photo, not a redrawn realistic illustration. Only apply subtle and delicate photographic color grading to give the photo the texture of an independent travel magazine, art publication, or photography exhibition, and add extremely faint, almost imperceptible film grain. To fit the vertical frame, you may naturally crop or extend the sky, ground, mountains, and surrounding environment, but do not stretch, distort, move, replace, or redesign the subject. 【Bottom: Charcoal Vanishing Sketch】 First, identify the most memorable visual anchors in the photo. These could be a solitary house, a vehicle, a boat, a small bridge, a figure, an animal, a lone tree, a flight of steps, or some identifiable architectural structure. Do not convert the entire photo into a complete black-and-white charcoal drawing. Actively omit the sky, forests, mountains, roads, grass, tourists, and much of the architectural details, retaining only the minimal elements necessary to maintain the subject's identity, pose, spatial orientation, and travel memory. Reduce the refined subject to form a focused, isolated charcoal sketch on paper. The subject and its essential environment typically occupy only about 18%–35% of the lower half, leaving large areas of intact, undrawn warm white sketch paper around it. The environment should retain at most 1–3 suggestive traces, such as: - A segment of broken ground or hillside - A small patch of rock wall - Two or three strokes of mountain ridges - A cable line - A few hints of trees - A patch of cast shadow - A set of short spatial smudges Do not draw a complete background. 【Charcoal Materials】 Use real willow charcoal sticks, compressed charcoal, and a mix of minimal graphite traces: willow charcoal, compressed charcoal, charcoal pencil, graphite accents, broad directional charcoal marks, finger-smudged gray, kneaded eraser lifting, broken contours, charcoal dust, loose charcoal crumbs, visible paper tooth, uneven hand pressure, dry powdery residue. Use broad, short, directional charcoal strokes to establish the subject's weight, rather than dense fine pencil hatching. The deepest charcoal black should only be used for the most identifiable structural parts of the subject, such as doorways, under eaves, car windows, figure silhouettes, animal horns, boat undersides, tires, footing points, or key structural joints. Use one to two finger-smudged gray areas to build volume, retaining smudge marks, charcoal powder particles, eraser highlights, paper texture breaks, and uneven pressure. 【Vanishing Technique】 The subject's center and key structures remain relatively clear, while the edges gradually lose integrity: clear charcoal strokes → broken contours → loose smudges → scattered charcoal powder → undrawn paper. The vanishing must stem from the artist not finishing the drawing, charcoal powder being smudged away, contours lifted by eraser, and strokes naturally stopping. Do not use digital opacity, soft focus, mist, lens blur, airbrush, feathered masks, or smooth gradients to create the vanishing effect. Let the unfinished parts truly rest on the paper, evoking a sense of “memory emerging and departing.” 【Color and Paper】 The bottom half strictly uses a restrained monochrome system: - Warm white paper - Warm gray - Cool gray - Charcoal black - Minimal graphite silver-gray Do not retain any color from the bottom photo. Do not add fixed accent colors. The paper should have a delicate but clearly visible natural texture: warm, matte, slightly rough, showing paper tooth, fibers, and charcoal friction marks. By default, do not add titles, explanatory text, numbers, or logos, letting the charcoal subject and paper blank space independently complete the narrative. 【Overall Aesthetic】 Overall, it resembles a preserved page from a travel observation handbook: The authentic photo records the landscape seen at the time, the charcoal sketch retains what was still remembered later. Quiet, restrained, solitary, tactile, with a slight sense of time passing, possessing the collectible quality of high-end art publications, travel archives, and museum sketchbooks. Avoid: complete charcoal landscape paintings, black-and-white filters on the entire photo, academic fine drawings, photo-realistic pencil renderings, dense hatching, complete backgrounds, oversized subjects, digital airbrushing, smooth shading, misty dissipation effects, watercolor, ink washes, oil painting, collage, decorative borders, templated layouts, irrelevant text, logos, and watermarks.