Model
Art School Portrait
Upload a reference photo and click Generate. You can generate free without an account — signing up unlocks downloads.
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How to use the Art School Portrait template
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A portrait with side lighting. Charcoal studies live on the transition from lit to shadow, and flat frontal light leaves the medium with nothing to show off.
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Click Generate — the AI re-renders your photo using the template prompt shown below. It runs without an account, on Shotari Basic.
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The result appears right here. Re-run any time — each generation differs slightly. Downloading needs an account.
What this template does
A fine-art academy study in charcoal and pastel: expressive smudged shading, some restrained colour in the skin, and visible paper tooth underneath. It sits between a pencil sketch and a painting — drawn, but with the warmth of pigment rather than pure graphite.
Template prompt
Render this as a refined fine-art academy charcoal-and-pastel portrait study with expressive shading, preserving the person's face.
Frequently asked questions
How is this different from Sketch Portrait?
Sketch Portrait is strictly black-and-white graphite with hatched lines. This one uses charcoal for mass plus pastel for muted colour, and the marks are smudged and blended rather than hatched — a looser, warmer, more painterly result.
Will the paper texture show?
Yes — the tooth of the paper is part of what the template asks for, and it shows most clearly in the light areas where the medium is applied thinly.
Is this template free to use?
You can generate twice a day with no account at all. A free account adds 20 credits at signup plus 10 more daily. Downloading requires an account, and paid credits are what give you watermark-free output with full commercial rights; free-tier use is personal-use only.
Which model runs it, and what does it cost?
Shotari Basic by default, which costs 0 credits. You can switch to a premium model — Shotari Pro (2 credits), Seedream 5 Lite (3), GPT Image 2 (5), Nano Banana Pro (10) and others — but those bill paid credits, so they need a signed-in account with a paid balance. Without an account the job always runs on Shotari Basic and the page says so.