A man head and shoulders, dead straight, deadpan, a fine steel chain veil hanging flat from his crown across the whole face. Flat cool grey seamless falling to near-black. Rim light only, separating dark from dark. Skin desaturated and photoreal, pores sharp behind the links. near-neutral desaturated palette, skin the only warmth in the frame, very high tonal separation, no saturated accent anywhere, pores held sharp, no grain