Art style: Dark Comic.
A medium shot in sepia tones of a 1930s worker dipping a wide-brimmed cloth hat into a wooden bucket filled with thick, bubbling black tar. Nearby, several blackened, stiffened hats are lined up on a wooden plank to dry. The worker's hands are stained with dark residue. The scene is lit by a nearby fire, casting flickering shadows. The textures of the tar are glossy and viscous against the matte cloth.
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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.
