Illustrated portrait photography

FACE MATCH IS THE TOP PRIORITY. This is the exact man in the attached reference photo - not a lookalike. Copy the reference face feature by feature: hairline, hair volume and texture, forehead, brow shape, eye shape and spacing, nose bridge and tip, lips, jawline, cheek structure, skin tone - every proportion identical, so anyone who knows him recognises him instantly. Do not beautify, slim, age or genericise the face. From the reference keep only the face and hair; ignore its lighting, clothing, pose and background.

ART: a hand-drawn 2D cel animation still - clean ink outlines, flat warm colour planes, painted background glow - but his face is drawn ON MODEL from the reference: every feature and proportion exact, eyes their real size, never anime-enlarged, never simplified into a generic face; the likeness carries the frame. He stands under a painted thoranam doorway in a cream kasavu mundu with a crimson shirt, holding a chethi bloom near his shoulder, fingers countable in clean line. Painted morning light keys his face brightest, catchlights inked. Three-quarter to the lens, closed smile - real, never posed. Vertical 2:3, Only this one person. No text anywhere.

FINAL CHECK: compare against the attached reference - the identity must match exactly; if any feature differs, it is wrong.