Comic Styles

Anime Cel Shading

Hard-edged cel shading with two or three flat tone steps per colour and no gradients; crisp closed line art of even weight, thickened on outer contours and thin inside. Flat local colour blocked in behind sharp shadow shapes; minimal screentone on a clean bright ground. Saturated but clean palette — sky blue, warm ochre, fresh green, and cool violet-brown shadows. High-key daylight key light with hard cast shadows and a distinctly cool shadow colour. Silhouette-first composition, simple readable shapes, generous clean negative space, no painterly texture.