Make a high-contrast editorial illustration with fine scratchy ink lines, broad dry-brush slashes, splattered blacks, rough halftone and photocopy grain on warm off-white paper. Use ink black, paper white and sharp vermilion accents, with hard graphic shadows and bright angular highlights. Render faces with clean but stylized contours, dark expressive eyes and selective red details. Subjects may be re-posed freely in whatever arrangement suits the style, set in a tightly cropped, energetic composition with splattered dots and bold graphic ink marks filling the picture. A risograph print of a flag has stripes slightly misregistered in pink red and teal over a blue canton. A paperclip bites the top edge and grain dances across the margin. No lettering.
Light: flat zine daylight; palette of riso pink, teal and paper white; handmade, wry, cool.
Square 1:1 frame, centred composition with breathing room on all sides. The standard flag shows exactly thirteen horizontal stripes starting and ending with red and a blue canton with star rows in the upper hoist corner; any interpretive flag stays recognisable and is never torn, burned, defaced or on the ground. No readable text, lettering, slogans or logos anywhere; any people are fictional fully clothed adults with clearly adult proportions and faces. Isolated on a fully transparent background, alpha = 0 everywhere outside the artwork, not white, not coloured, no checkerboard pattern, a real alpha channel; complete and unclipped with a wide transparent margin and a soft semi-transparent contact shadow.
