Ergo Proxy style reference and prompts

The muted anime treatment uses precise dark contour drawing for the focal silhouette and lets secondary space fade into grainy, low-contrast paint. Dusty olive, ocher gray, charcoal, and a concentrated deep crimson make a sober palette. Broad nearly empty upper space counterweights a strong off-center vertical mass. Long sweeping lines introduce motion within a still pose, while a few angular color planes give the main form weight. Edges are sharply inked around key facial and outer transitions, then soften quickly into distant haze. Diffuse side light produces gentle warm planes rather than bright highlights or hard cast shadows. Thin structural marks near the lower horizon suggest depth without drawing attention away from the principal shape. The overall effect is tense, restrained, and reflective, with sparse composition and selective red color providing its emotional force.

A square muted anime illustration shows a dark-haired woman in a deep red coat standing above a hazy city beneath a brown-olive sky. The background is spare and low contrast. Rooftops and blocky buildings stretch along the lower right, their thin aerials and ledges fading into dusty atmospheric distance. The upper two-thirds is a broad ocher-gray sky with subtle streaks and no distinct sun. The woman fills the left half from the chest upward, turned in right-facing profile. Her long black hair is swept strongly back to the left, with separated strands curving across the upper-left corner and a few fine locks near her cheek. Her pale face is composed and guarded, the dark eye looking out over the city rather than toward the viewer. A strong black line defines the eyebrow, nose bridge, lips, and narrow chin. The coat has a high folded collar and broad shoulder, its rich crimson fabric broken by darker red planes that describe folds around the neck and chest. A small angular flap protrudes near the lower center. The darkest hair and coat edge contrast with the lighter dusty skyline, while the buildings remain deliberately low in detail. There are no other people or readable signs in the selected view. Soft diffuse light seems to come from the open sky on the right, brightening the visible side of her face and the outer red folds, with no hard cast shadow. Edges remain clean around the facial profile and hair, but the city dissolves into grainy paint and haze. The overall composition is still and watchful, using a single windblown dark silhouette and restrained red accent against a broad, desaturated urban distance.