High-contrast comic: selected shadows join into large ink masses, only essential lights carved; the face never becomes an all-black mass. Outer contours may dissolve; color islands readable. Hard drawn boundaries; no photographic darkness or gradients. No pasted photo face. Keep resemblance in big shapes only: silhouette, pose, large color areas. Below fingertip scale use only joined ink shadow masses, carved lights, texture visible everywhere. Eyes and nose, where present, are ink marks with one ink-made highlight. No photographic detail, crisp strands, glossy eye reflections. A drum kit wrapped in flag stripes with a blue starry bass drum skin booms under sticks held by an adult drummer in a plain tee. Cymbals catch bright light while a towel drapes the spare snare. No lettering.
Light: hard graphic stage contrast; palette of skin navy, shell red and cymbal brass; punchy, bold, tight.
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.
