Oleg Shuplyak style reference and prompts

The surreal illustrative treatment blends sculptural angular planes with flowing ornamental curls. Muted teal, sage, pale cream, lavender, ochre, and warm rose meet in softly graded patches, while narrow dark contours give the focus firmness. Repeated spiral and ribbonlike lines connect disparate areas into a continuous rhythm; small distant forms are simplified and pale. Surfaces appear smoothly painted but retain fine internal marks, especially where warm light crosses folded or raised planes. Diffuse upper-side illumination makes cream and gold areas luminous, with cool violet-blue shade sitting in creases and along one edge. The composition balances a heavy dark side mass against open pale movement on the other. Its overall effect is imaginative, polished, and gently theatrical.

A square surreal illustrated portrait shows a white-haired elder in a tall hat holding a small pipe, with pale swirling forms and a distant imagined town behind him. The background is a patchwork of muted blue, sage, cream, lavender, and warm beige, rather than a realistic sky. On the left, broad white curls drift upward like stylized smoke, their ribbons outlined by faint shadows. Low on that side, tiny pale towers and clustered roofs recede into a hazy settlement. The man fills the center and right, shown from the chest upward in left-facing three-quarter profile. His tall hat has a wide brim and bands of ochre, gold, and muted violet blocks. Wisps of white hair curl out from both sides beneath it. His face is long, angular, and deeply lined, with an arched brow, narrowed eye, prominent nose, and firm mouth. Warm peach, ochre, and rose planes shape the skin, while cool lavender shadows deepen the wrinkles. He holds a small dark pipe in his right hand near the lower left of his face; the thin stem reaches toward his mouth. A deep teal scarf folds around his neck and shoulder, set over dark blue clothing with a mustard-brown cravat at the center. Curving ornamental lines in the hair, smoke, face, and scarf give the image a continuous flowing rhythm, while the distant town remains much simpler. The finish is smooth but visibly painted, with softly blended planes and fine internal contour lines. Diffuse warm light from the upper left brightens the hat band, forehead, hand, and white curls, while teal and violet shadow holds the right side. The overall composition is whimsical and contemplative, pairing a severe sculptural profile with airy pastel swirls and a small dreamlike distance.