Chennai Watercolor Travel Poster

Goal: Create a vertical travel poster illustration celebrating [city name] with the subtitle [subtitle], blending urban street life, coastal air, and South Indian temple architecture.

Canvas: Portrait poster, 4:5 aspect ratio, off-white watercolor paper background with lots of negative space in the upper left. Fine ink linework with soft transparent watercolor washes in warm beige, ochre, dusty green, muted blue-gray, black, and sepia.

Layout: Large title text at the upper left reading “Chennai” in elegant high-contrast serif type. Directly below it, handwritten script subtitle reading “Everyday Urban Rhythm.” Under the subtitle place a short divider line and a small typewriter-style poem: “Salt in the air. / Filter coffee in hand. / Stories in every street. / This is Chennai.” Add another short divider below the poem. At the bottom left add a tiny handwritten note: “Chennai / is not just / a city, / it’s a feeling.”

Main scene: A lively Chennai street receding into the distance along the seafront. On the right, a detailed ornate Dravidian temple gopuram rises behind old street buildings, covered with many tiny sculpted figures and pastel accents. A large leafy tree frames the upper right. In the far left background, show a red-and-white striped lighthouse near the sea promenade. The road and pavement should feel sunlit, dusty, and slightly wet with loose watercolor textures.

Street elements and exact counts: Include 3 auto rickshaws: one prominent yellow-black auto rickshaw in the lower left foreground driving away, one smaller yellow-black auto behind it, and one tiny distant auto near the promenade. Include 3 curved black street lamps along the road, decreasing in size with perspective. Include 4 visible birds in the pale sky. Include 1 bicycle cart in the center foreground loaded with green coconuts, ridden by a man. Include 1 separate coconut pile or cart on the lower right near the sidewalk. Include 1 filter coffee stall on the right foreground with a vendor, metal tumblers, a chalkboard menu, hanging bulbs, and a wooden counter labeled “FILTER COFFEE” and “STRONG & DEGREES.” Include 4 major signboards: a green bilingual Marina Beach direction sign in the midground, a large Tamil sign above the right-side building, a shop sign in Tamil above the coffee stall, and a dark menu chalkboard beside the stall.

People: Show a small crowd dispersed along the street and promenade, drawn loosely but recognizably. In the foreground include a woman in a cream saree with gold accents walking away on the right, a male coconut seller riding the bicycle cart in the center, and a coffee stall vendor in a pale shirt behind the counter.

Text handling: Keep the English title, subtitle, poem, bottom note, and coffee-stall lettering legible. Use Tamil-style lettering on the signboards where visible, but it may be painterly and imperfect. Set the customizable beach sign text as [beach sign text]. Set the customizable coffee stall label as [coffee stall label].

Visual style: Sophisticated architectural travel sketch, ink-and-watercolor wash, airy editorial poster design, realistic perspective but loose handmade edges, detailed temple and street foreground, minimal sky, no photo-realism, no digital gloss, no watermark.