Forbidden City Papercut Art

Prompt

9:16 vertical version, modern oriental female dreamland 3D paper cutting art, modern oriental papercut art, layered paper cut illustration, dimensional paper sculpture, intricate paper carving, paper diorama, layered shadow box, poetic female dreamscape, contemporary oriental art poster. The theme of the work is "{argument name="theme" default="She is waiting for a spring snow on the roof of the Forbidden City"}". The core narrative of the picture is: a young oriental woman stands between the high platforms of the layered paper-carved palaces. The distant Forbidden City-style gates, vermilion walls, long steps and overlapping ridges seem to be slowly opened by time. The paper snow of late winter and early spring falls quietly from a height. She looks into the distance at the moment when the snow is about to fall. Between the grand palace order and the quiet sky, she sees the quietest and clearest part of her heart again. The main character is an oriental adult female with a visual age of about {argument name="visual age" default="24"} years old. She is quiet, clear, gentle and restrained, with a sense of classical and time precipitation. The character has a soft oval face, clear almond eyes, and her eyes quietly look at the distant palace, with a peaceful and thoughtful expression. The face is shaped by exquisite oriental paper art illustration, and the features are clear and natural, not a real photographic texture, nor overly cartoonish. The character's hairstyle is long black hair tied low, and the ends of the hair extend several long and light paper art ribbons, which float behind her under the influence of the high breeze. She wears small light gold plum branches and snowflake hair ornaments, which are exquisite and light, not high or complicated. The character's clothing is a {argument name="clothing colors" default="cinnabar red and ivory white"} multi-layer paper art long skirt. Cinnabar red is used for the main inner skirt, and ivory white is used for the outer long silk, sleeve edges and hollowed-out clothing pieces. The hem and the inside of the silk are carved with cornices, ridges, snowflakes, cloud patterns and fine oriental flower branch patterns, with ancient gold paper foil outlining in some parts. The clothing has clear paper thickness, layered structure, slight creases, real fiber texture, fine manual cutting edges and high-density hollowed-out decoration. The long silk is expanded behind the character by the wind, forming an elegant and obvious flowing line. The dream carrier is layered paper art palace gates and palace walls. Dream imagery includes: palace gates, cornices, paper snow, ridges, distant halls, and long steps. All palace walls, roofs, gate towers, stone fences, snowflakes, figures and decorations must uniformly adopt a high-completion 3D paper carving language. Don't make the figures realistic while the buildings are just ordinary backgrounds. The overall paper-cutting structure adopts a multi-layer stage style. The composition progresses from the foreground to the distant view through layers of huge paper art palace gates, palace walls, ridges, long steps and distant halls, forming a very clear vertical palace order. The close-up view is formed by a huge hollowed-out palace gate or paper-carved doorway as a natural frame. The edge of the door frame has layers of ivory white paper pieces, ancient gold outlines, snowflakes, plum branches and fine oriental patterns. Some close-up palace gates and eaves can be cut by the edge of the frame to enhance the sense of architectural scale and the realistic space of entering the palace. The figure is located in the lower or lower-middle part of the picture, significantly smaller than the entire palace space, standing inside a high platform, stone fence or palace gate, with her body facing the distant palace. The character maintains a quiet standing or very slight slow walking posture, no posing, no looking at the camera, and her gaze naturally crosses the layers of palace gates to look at the distant main hall. In the distance is a group of paper-carved palaces with clear Forbidden City royal architectural features: vermilion palace walls, layered palace gates, double-eaved halls, white high platforms, continuous stone steps, golden ridges and a complete central axis order. The main hall in the distance is located in the upper center or slightly above the picture, which is grand in scale but does not take away the relationship between the figure and the overall space alone. The building must have a far-reaching order of layers of rising, doors within doors, and halls behind halls, so that the viewer clearly feels that the palace city is not completely contained in the picture. The overall color scheme is cinnabar red, palace wall warm red, ivory white, and ancient gold, with a small amount of snow blue as embellishment. Cinnabar red and warm red are used for palace walls, door columns and character skirts; ivory white is used for snow layers, stone fences, door frames, silk and a large number of paper carving highlights; ancient gold is used for ridges, door decorations, cut edges and local paper foil; snow blue is only used for distant skies, shadows and air layers. The colors are bright but advanced and restrained, not overall reddish, no uniform warm yellow filter, keeping the brightness and transparency of the paper carving world. The light uses bright natural sky light with a mix of cold and warm in late winter and early spring. Warm white sunlight shines diagonally from one side of the screen or from a distance on the palace walls and ridges, making the cinnabar red palace walls, ivory white snow layers and ancient gold edges form soft and bright layers; cold white sky light fills the shadows, making the dark parts maintain the paper texture and not press black. The distant sky light is slightly brighter, forming a clear atmospheric depth. Paper snow falls slowly from the sky and palaces, and the snowflakes are presented as fine hollowed-out paper pieces, the size of which decreases gradually with the space. Some snowflakes form a foreground layer near the lens, and some fall on the ridges, gate towers and railings. The amount of snow is moderate, and it should not block the main body of the building, nor should it form a blizzard. Strengthen paper art details: palace gate edges, eaves, bucket arches, stone fences, ridges, plum branches and snowflakes all have obvious paper thickness, manual cutting edges, fiber texture and soft inter-layer projections. Different architectural layers form a clear front-back relationship, and the distant details gradually decrease, but the outlines remain clear. The overall picture has a high-completion modern oriental paper carving art, royal palace dream stage, advanced art installation and movie poster feeling. The focus is not an ordinary "Forbidden City snow scene", but to make the Forbidden City-style royal architecture a huge paper art world slowly opened by time. The character is just a quiet and tiny emotional anchor. The overall mood is: quiet, restrained, clear, time-frozen, spring snow approaching, the old year not yet ended and the new spring about to wake up. The picture should have poetic and historical charm, while maintaining brightness, transparency and exquisiteness. Additional requirements: The Forbidden City should be large in scale, and the character should be small, strengthening the sense of order and history of the layers of the palace; don't make it into a common travel illustration, and don't lay out a full panoramic view of the palace; the close, medium and long views must have obvious occlusion and space progression, and the paper carving details should be exquisite and rich.