Val Byrne style reference and prompts

The style combines flattened geometric planes, crisp collage edges, and a limited range of cool and warm blocks. Grey-blue and slate fields hold most of the image, while red-orange and ochre accents create small points of emphasis. Fine seams, cut overlaps, and simplified rectangular details give surfaces a constructed quality. Cool diffuse light is interrupted by warm accents and angular dark bands, with little glossy surface modelling. Perspective comes from converging bands and changing scale rather than detailed modelling. The composition uses vertical edges to frame an open centre and balances strong geometry with a small dark accent.

The image is a square collage-style city illustration showing a prominent dark pedestrian between tall buildings under a pale, overcast sky. On the left, a narrow red-orange facade rises from the edge, its upper windows and roofline cut into simple rectangular shapes. At street level, a dark storefront sits beneath a broad black awning, with a small warm light glowing near the corner. The facade steps back toward the centre, where a narrow wedge of ochre light crosses the pavement. On the right, a taller grey-blue building fills much of the frame, its flat wall divided by long horizontal and vertical seams. Farther down the street, smaller facades recede toward the right, creating a compressed urban perspective. A single streetlamp stands near the middle distance, its thin dark post and curled decorative head silhouetted against the pale building fronts. Near the centre, one figure in a black coat walks away from the viewer along the open street. The person is small compared with the buildings, and the dark silhouette separates clearly from the light pavement. The ground is assembled from large angular planes of pale blue-grey, slate, and muted ochre, with sharp boundaries that angle toward the distant junction. The paving is broken into broad painted facets rather than detailed surface reflections. Its large planes change direction several times, making a faceted path from the lower edge into the central street. The figure stands just beyond the warm ochre patch, where the pale ground and dark coat meet. Small rectangular windows and recessed doorways repeat along the walls, but their interiors remain too dark or too small to read as signs or lettering. The left building's upper blocks alternate between warm red and pale grey, while its shopfront stays nearly black beneath the projecting awning. On the right, the tall blank wall has a few dark openings and narrow seams, keeping its large cool plane from appearing entirely uniform. The sky occupies a narrow band between rooflines and remains a flat cool grey-blue. The sky provides a cool diffuse light, while angular dark bands break across the pavement; warm colour stays close to the left storefront while the right wall remains cool. Fine seams and collage-like overlaps are visible across the facades and pavement, but no sign carries legible writing. The overall composition uses the tall contrasting facades as a frame around the small central pedestrian, while converging ground planes and the streetlamp lead the eye into the quiet street.