Note on specs
You asked for both widescreen and 1:1. I’m prioritizing aspect ratio 1:1 (square) since you said “Make the aspect ratio 1:1.”
High-quality prompt (square, cel-shaded 2D cartoon, NOT South Park style)
Use this as a single prompt in your image generator:
Prompt: “Cute, clean 2D digital cartoon illustration of a short red‑haired boy wearing a green ushanka hat (hair not visible), green jacket, confident proud expression, looking directly at the viewer (POV). Extreme close-up half‑body framing, cinematic dramatic camera angle, strong foreshortening with one gloved hand/arm reaching toward the camera (hand large in foreground, body receding), thin linework, flat colors with crisp cel‑shaded shadows, minimal detail, smooth vector-like shapes, high clarity, clean edges. No nose drawn, no eyelashes. Plain solid blue background (no patterns, no scenery), studio-like dramatic rim light, high-quality promotional key art feel.”
Negative prompt (important)
“anime style, anime eyes, big sparkly eyes, eyelashes, facial hair, beard, mustache, nose, realistic rendering, 3D, painterly, heavy texture, crosshatching, messy sketch, thick outlines, extra details, background scenery, text, logo, watermark, low resolution, blurry, grainy, distorted face, incorrect proportions, long hair showing.”
Composition checklist (to keep it on-brief)
- POV eye contact: pupils aimed at camera.
- Extreme close-up + half-body: crop near chest/upper torso, face prominent.
- Foreshortening: one arm/hand toward camera (largest element besides face).
- No nose line at all.
- No facial hair / no eyelashes.
- Hair not shown (hat fully covers it).
- Plain flat blue background only.
- Not South Park style (avoid simple cutout look), but keep recognizable facial proportions (rounder face, simple mouth, compact features).
Suggested settings (generic)
- Aspect ratio: 1:1 (e.g., 1024×1024 or higher)
- Style: “illustration / cartoon / cel-shaded”
- If using SD/SDXL: 25–40 steps, CFG 5–8, sampler DPM++ (or similar)
- If the model keeps adding a nose: increase the negative prompt weight for “nose” / “nose bridge.”
Variation idea (still plain blue)
If you need more “cinematic” without adding a background: keep the background solid blue, but add dramatic rim lighting on the character and a subtle single hard-edged cel-shadow shape on his jacket (still flat, still minimal).