Model
Watercolor Portrait
Upload a reference photo and click Generate. You can generate free without an account — signing up unlocks downloads.
Example: before → after. Upload your image to start.
How to use the Watercolor Portrait template
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A portrait with a simple background. Watercolour bleeds across boundaries, and a cluttered background bleeds into the subject.
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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
Repaints the photo in watercolour: loose expressive strokes, colour bleeding softly past its edges, and visible paper texture underneath. The likeness and expression are preserved exactly, so the looseness lives in the medium rather than in the face.
Template prompt
Turn this photo into a watercolor painting with loose expressive brush strokes, soft color bleeding and visible paper texture, preserving the subject's exact likeness and expression.
Frequently asked questions
How is this different from Art School Portrait?
Watercolour is wet and transparent — colour pools and bleeds, and the white of the paper does the highlights. Art School Portrait is dry media: charcoal mass with pastel worked on top, smudged rather than flowing.
Will the paper texture show?
Yes, and it is most visible in the pale areas where pigment is thin — that texture is part of what makes it read as paint rather than as a filter.
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.