Code Geass style reference and prompts

The anime image combines crisp tapered contour bands with bold cel-like shadow planes and a softly smoky background. Dark burgundy and near-black hold the broad field; a saturated cool green and narrow gold trim create strong accents. Highlights on smooth surfaces are sharp and directional, while shadows cut across forms in large decisive shapes. A strict central division and nearly equal masses give graphic balance, and opposed directional flow keeps the frame dynamic. Background transitions remain soft enough to push the sharply drawn foreground forward. The overall effect is elegant, tense, and dramatic, with limited color and precise edge control doing the expressive work.

A square anime illustration is divided into two vertical halves, each holding a close upper-body view of a serious young figure against a dark red ground. On the left, a brown-haired young man turns his body toward the right while looking outward from beneath a long fringe that partly covers one eye. His narrow visible eye, sharply angled nose, and closed mouth make the expression guarded. A dark high-collared uniform with gold edging frames a pale shirt and a small red accent near the chest. The left background is blackened burgundy at the top and more luminous crimson near the lower edge. On the right, a young woman with long straight green hair faces toward the right edge in three-quarter view. Her green-gold eyes are large but calm, and her pale face is divided by a firm shadow under the fringe and along the cheek. She wears a dark garment with gold trim and a lighter center panel, its structured shoulder just visible at the lower right. The central division is a strict vertical line; both heads are nearly equal in scale but turn in different directions. Strands of brown and green hair are rendered as crisp tapering bands, while the background remains smoky and softly blended. Strong light comes from the front-left, creating bright highlights on the green hair and warm planes on the man's cheek, with dark shadow crossing both faces. The rich red ground provides contrast without a specific location or readable text. The overall composition is tense and balanced, using mirrored scale, opposed gazes, and red-green color contrast to suggest a charged relationship.