Dense ink illustration in black and grey on an open, uncluttered ground, any setting kept to a few sparse marks. Fine linework describes every surface: individually drawn hair strands, engraved cross hatching in garments, glossy wiped highlights and soft airbrushed grey blending on skin, from jet black to paper white. People keep natural proportions with elegant, finely drawn faces: precise brows, crisp eyelids with lashes where present, sculpted noses and defined lips; facial hair where present as fine stippled strokes. Animals keep true anatomy, fur in layered directional hatching. The subjects may be re-posed into dramatic crouching, leaning or seated heroic poses. No text or lettering. A tall frame of a woolly mammoth seen from the front and slightly below, striding through a driving snowstorm, great curved tusks sweeping out of frame and a shaggy matted coat drawn strand by strand, a lone bare pine at the left edge, flakes streaming across the open paper ground, the huge head in sharp detail and the legs dissolving into sparse marks. No readable text, lettering, signs or logos anywhere; the picture fills the whole frame on its own ground with no checkerboard or transparency pattern.
Palette: jet black to paper white with soft grey blending; monumental, wintry, prehistoric.
Tall 9:16 portrait frame, composed vertically with the main line of the scene rising through the height of the frame.
