Your photo as a Rococo chalk drawing
In 1760 a French draughtsman could set a whole figure down in minutes with three chalks on tan paper. Erafy draws your photo that way: red for the contours, black for the darks, white for the lights, and the bare sheet for everything else.
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Nobody in the examples is a real person — the before photos are invented faces. These are our best results, not average ones. Sometimes AI can't handle it and modifies your face. All we can offer is a try.
What a Rococo drawing was
Rococo was the manner of Paris town houses in the first half of the eighteenth century: small pictures for panelled rooms, pale colour, rose, cream, sky blue and silver-green, and well-dressed people doing nothing much in a park. It was made for artificial light in small mirrored rooms.
Erafy takes the quick study behind those pictures: a drawing from life in three chalks on a sheet of handmade buff paper the colour of milky coffee. Red chalk draws the contours in lines that swell and thin. The shadows are parallel diagonal hatching, set closer where they deepen, with black chalk for the darkest accents. A few touches of white chalk mark the lights. Most of every figure is bare paper inside its outline.
You are drawn whole, head to feet, in the dress of the day, with the sheet left bare around you. The face is a handful of marks and no more, seen from the side, so the drawing can keep a profile, a hairline and a bearing. With Situation on you might be stepping through a minuet or sharing a cold collation on the grass.
Of Erafy's twenty crafts before 1900, this is the only drawing; the rest of the painted and printed group is paint and print.
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An axolotl as a person
Other crafts: Painted and printed
Questions
What does Rococo mean?
The style of French decoration and painting from about 1715 to the 1770s: curved, pale, private and made for small rooms rather than halls. In painting it brought new subjects, the fête galante, the boudoir scene and the decorative overdoor, and a quick feathery brush. Neoclassicism reacted against all of it in the 1760s to 1780s, straightening the lines and taking the pink out.
Why a chalk drawing and not an oil painting?
Because the drawing is where this period was fastest and most direct. A study from life in red, black and white chalk took the few minutes a pose could be held, and most of the figure stayed bare paper. Erafy keeps that pace, so the sheet carries contours, hatching and a few lights rather than a finished surface, and the paper itself does the mid-tone.
What would I look like in a Rococo chalk drawing?
Erafy makes a new picture from your photo in the style of the year you pick, so how much it resembles you varies from one go to the next. It varies most in the black-and-white years and in the crafts before 1900, where faces are drawn in the craft's style. We make no promise about how any result will look.
