Color: Predominantly monochromatic (black ink on white or off-white paper), leveraging the stark contrast for impact. When color is used (red), it serves as a potent accent to highlight action, blood, or symbolic elements, dramatically increasing the visual intensity.
Lighting: Implied through the high-contrast use of black ink for shadows and the paper's white for highlights. The technique relies on suggestion and sharp definition rather than smooth gradients, creating a graphic and often harsh sense of light and shadow that emphasizes form and texture.
Design Technique: Employs loose, energetic, and often scratchy ink linework (pen, brush, or digital equivalents). There's a focus on capturing movement, impact, and raw emotion through dynamic poses, gestural lines, and expressive hatching or ink washes. Subjects often include mythological beasts, warriors, or powerful natural forces, rendered with a sense of urgency and visceral energy. The sketch-like quality adds to the immediacy.