portrait poster design — Serif · Centered · Monochrome

A black-and-white illustrated movie poster in a scratchboard engraving style depicts a sinister grinning man holding a box of coins, set against a pitch-black background. Across the top third, an elegant title ("TITLE") in thin off-white serif letters stacks across three lines, flanked by small fan-shaped shell ornaments beside the first and last lines. Fine cross-hatched lines cover the entire image, giving the black field a rough, fibrous texture. In the center of the frame, the head and shoulders of an adult man emerge from the darkness, a soft cap pulled low over his brow. His face is gaunt and deeply lined, with a wide toothy grin and narrowed eyes glinting sideways, a thin cigar clamped between his teeth. He wears a heavy textured overcoat with a high collar and a dark tie at the throat. Both of his hands cradle an open rectangular box at chest level, heaped with round coins that catch a faint glint. The coins are drawn as stacked ovals with bright rims and shadowed undersides. On the left side of the frame, the rough outlines of a wooden fence or porch railing fade into the black background. On the right side of the frame, jagged claw-like shadows like oversized fingers loom out of the darkness behind him. Across the lower edge, deep black shadows swallow all detail, pulling every line of the engraving toward the grinning face and the coin box. The lighting is stark and theatrical, a single harsh source from the front-left carving white highlights out of the darkness and throwing deep inky shadows across one side of the face. Overall, the centered single-figure composition combines a stark black-and-white engraving palette with a vintage horror-illustration style and a sly, unsettling mood.