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Noir Gentleman — Red Ink Portrait

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Create a highly detailed hand-drawn editorial portrait illustration of a mysterious young adult man wearing dark round sunglasses, shown in a tight head-and-shoulders close-up. The composition is vertical portrait orientation, approximately 2:3 aspect ratio.

The man has short, neatly combed-back dark black hair with subtle individual strand detailing, a strong angular face, prominent cheekbones, straight nose, defined jawline, slightly rough stubble along the cheeks, jaw and chin, and a calm, emotionless, slightly intimidating expression. His head is tilted very subtly upward while facing almost directly toward the viewer.

He wears large, perfectly round black sunglasses with thin dark metal frames. The lenses are extremely dark, almost completely opaque, with very subtle reddish reflections and minimal highlights. The glasses sit naturally across the bridge of his nose.

He is dressed in a formal black or very dark charcoal suit jacket, crisp white dress shirt, and a narrow black necktie. The collar is clearly visible beneath his jaw, with realistic hand-drawn folds and creases in the shirt and tie. The lower portion of the image is cropped around the upper chest.

Use a deep, solid dark crimson-red background with no objects, scenery, or texture behind the subject. Strong contrast between the red background, pale skin, black hair, sunglasses, and dark suit.

Art style: sophisticated semi-realistic graphic-novel / charcoal-and-ink portrait illustration, with visible rough pencil, charcoal, dry-brush and cross-hatching marks. The skin should contain extensive fine sketch lines, layered hatching, subtle imperfections, rough tonal shading and painterly brush texture rather than smooth digital gradients. Facial shadows are dramatic and heavily rendered, especially on the right side of the face, beneath the sunglasses, around the nose, cheek, jaw and neck.

Lighting is dramatic and directional, illuminating the left/front side of the face while leaving the opposite side substantially darker. Use deep burgundy, black, brown, muted flesh tones and off-white highlights. The sunglasses should remain the darkest focal element.

Preserve the rough illustrated texture throughout: visible pencil strokes, cross-hatching, scratch marks, imperfect ink edges, dry-brush shading, subtle paper/grain texture and slightly distressed coloring. The artwork should feel like a high-end hand-rendered comic-book or fashion-editorial portrait rather than a clean vector illustration.

Framing: centered face, symmetrical composition with the head occupying most of the frame, shoulders partially visible at the bottom, minimal empty space, straight-on camera perspective, tight crop.

Color palette: deep blood-red background, near-black hair and suit, very dark burgundy-black sunglasses, warm pale beige/flesh skin tones, off-white shirt, black tie.

High detail, strong facial structure, realistic anatomy, dramatic chiaroscuro, gritty cross-hatched rendering, vintage graphic-novel aesthetic, textured hand-drawn lines, cinematic mood, sharp facial definition, distressed print texture, sophisticated dark editorial artwork, no text, no logo, no watermark.photorealistic photograph, 3D render, CGI, smooth vector art, cartoon, anime, glossy digital painting, airbrushed skin, soft pastel colors, smiling, exaggerated expression, distorted anatomy, asymmetrical eyes, deformed sunglasses, extra limbs, blurry face, low detail, colorful background, scenery, objects, text, typography, logo, watermark, frame

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