portrait poster design — Gradient Title Under a Burning Figure

A horror movie poster in painted realism style presents a full-body portrait of an adult man in business attire against a pitch-black background. The adult man stands centered in the frame, viewed from the thighs up, his body slightly turned while his head tilts upward and to the side. His face is caught mid-scream: mouth stretched open, eyes rolled back to glowing white, and his skin cracking apart with branching fissures that leak molten orange light. Veins of fire web across his forehead, cheeks, and hands, suggesting his head is bursting from within. He wears a white dress shirt with rolled sleeves, a black waistcoat, a black necktie, and black trousers cinched with a black leather belt. The shirt cuffs at his forearms are torn and smoking, revealing scorched flesh beneath. His hands hang at his sides with fingers splayed and palms facing outward, the skin of his forearms blistered and glowing. A faint halo of heat haze and thin smoke rises around his shoulders and head. Across his chest, the black waistcoat is fastened with a column of small dark buttons, its lapels catching a thin highlight. A silver belt buckle glints at his waist where the shirt meets the trousers. The white of his shirt glows against the black, its fabric rendered with soft painted folds. In the extreme upper corners, faint film grain textures the darkness. The composition leaves generous black space on both sides of his body, emphasizing his isolation. Across the bottom edge of the frame, a massive title reads "TITLE" in bold block letters filled with an orange-to-yellow gradient and crackling lightning-vein textures, outlined in thin white. The title lettering spans nearly the full width of the poster. In the upper corners, the black background is empty and grainy, closing in tightly around the figure so the glowing cracks stand out with maximum contrast. The lighting is stark and top-lit, with a hot glow radiating from the cracks in his skin itself, warm highlights catching the white shirt, and deep black shadows swallowing the edges of the frame. The palette is reduced to char black, ember orange, molten yellow, and the crisp white of the shirt and title outline. In the end, the symmetrical centered portrait balances the tormented figure against the surrounding void, and the painted horror style with its black and ember-orange palette delivers a mood of explosive supernatural dread.