Prompt:
A rule-of-thirds minimalist illustration in a liquid, expressive mixed-media style — translucent wet-on-wet alcohol inks, pouring medium, fine ink lines, and fractured abstract splashes. The subject is a tight close-up of a 30-year-old man with stereotypical Sardinian features: strong cheekbones, a broad angular jaw, sun-touched Mediterranean skin, short black hair with subtle charcoal undertones, and deep hazel eyes.
His expression captures an uncontrollable autistic meltdown at its peak. The mouth is wide open in a raw, involuntary scream; the jaw stretched, tendons visible. Tears flood the eyes and spill down the face in heavy, broken streams. The gaze is unfocused and overwhelmed, pupils dilated, conveying extreme distress rather than aggression. Facial muscles are tense and asymmetrical, as if the emotion has shattered all restraint.
The hair is rendered in sharp, wind-torn strokes of deep black (Pantone Black 6 C) and dark graphite gray (Pantone 432 C), dissolving into ink tendrils that rip outward from the head. These tendrils fragment into splashes and liquid stains, visually amplifying sensory overload. The skin is painted with near-realistic care beneath abstraction: warm Mediterranean beige (Pantone 468 C) layered with flushed distress tones of muted clay rose (Pantone 7604 C) and shadowed steel gray (Pantone 431 C). Tear tracks cut through the pigment, leaving pale, washed paths like eroded stone.
Around the face, the background is stark and minimal — an off-white field (Pantone 663 C) invaded by chaotic ink blooms, splashes, and dripping lines in ashen brown (Pantone 7533 C) and dirty ochre (Pantone 7401 C). The liquid textures feel invasive rather than decorative, pressing inward on the figure. Fine black lines vibrate and fracture around the eyes and mouth, suggesting sensory overload and emotional rupture.
Lighting is harsh and uneven, breaking across the face in irregular highlights and shadows, as if filtered through water and noise. No environment is defined beyond the abstract field — the moment exists only as emotion.
Mood: overwhelming, raw, and devastatingly human. This is not stylized drama but exposed vulnerability — a portrait of despair where control collapses and feeling erupts, rendered through liquid motion, fractured ink, and trembling form.
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