Art style: Dark Comic.
Dark comic noir montage of rejection. Ten emails fly into a black void and dissolve into ash. A day counter glows: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. Denis's face grows hollow and gaunt. Then Day 8: tiny dollar amounts appear floating - $2, $3, $5 - he grabs at them greedily, hands shaking over the keyboard. Desaturated palette, dried blood red counter, heavy grain.
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FINAL STYLE ENFORCEMENT (this is the authoritative rendering directive — it overrides any style wording elsewhere in the prompt):
Render this image in the following art style:
dark graphic-novel illustration — gritty comic book art style, heavy black inking, bold outlines, detailed cross-hatching and dramatic shading. Exaggerated character features, intense expressions, deep wrinkles, highly defined musculature. High contrast lighting. Desaturated grim background colors (grays, browns) with stark contrasting pop-color elements. Satirical and edgy atmosphere, masterpiece comic art.
Every surface, skin, fabric, material, and environmental element must be rendered in this idiom.
Character appearance reference (MUST match exactly):
- Denis: Young man, 24 years old, pale gaunt face, sunken tired eyes with dark circles, unshaven light stubble, messy dark hair, thin build, wearing a worn gray hoodie, soft pale hands with no calluses, hollow cheekbones, noir comic book style, desaturated palette
