Comic Styles

Neo-Noir Illustration

High-contrast chiaroscuro illustration with noir lighting: one hard directional spotlight and deep crushed blacks, plus banded shadows from blinds, railings and neon signs. Heavy inked shadow shapes with textured dry-brush and knife edges. Restrained palette of black, bone white and smoke grey with a single saturated accent of crimson or neon red. Wet-street reflections and atmospheric rain streaks; silhouetted mid-ground, low-key exposure. Graphic, poster-like tonal posterisation rather than soft rendering.