Cristiano Ronaldo sports poster,  inspired by Japanese sumi-e ink painting  colliding with contemporary sports photography,  background — pure white Pantone 11-0601 —  not off-white not cream —  the white of a fresh sheet —  maximum contrast ground, the figure —  NOT full color photography —  hand rendered ink illustration —  the tradition of  Yusaku Kamekura's 1964 Tokyo Olympics poster —  but looser —  more gestural —  the crosshatching technique of Image 1 —  fine pen lines building form —  areas of pure black —  areas of pure white —  grey tones built from line density —  his face rendered with  microscopic crosshatch detail —  ten thousand individual ink lines —  his jaw in heavy parallel hatching —  his forehead in fine stippling —  his hair in bold black mass —  the rendering technique  of an illustrator who has  studied anatomy for twenty years, BUT —  exploding out of the ink illustration —  at the point where his right boot meets ground —  a BURST of photorealistic color —  the actual Nike Mercurial boot —  photographed hyperrealistically —  erupting from the flat ink world —  the only photographic element —  the tool that changes everything —  rendered in its actual colors —  electric blue and white —  surrounded by ink splash marks —  the collision of two realities —  illustration meeting photography —  at the exact point of contact, paint intervention —  three vertical strokes —  cadmium yellow Pantone 109C —  tall narrow bands —  running from top to bottom —  positioned right third of composition —  the yellow of a Caution flag —  the yellow of danger and speed —  these strokes sit OVER the illustration —  behind the typography —  a middle layer between  drawing and text, his pose —  full body —  mid celebration —  arms spread —  head thrown back —  the SIUUU moment —  but rendered in ink —  so the movement is  captured through line —  through direction of stroke —  through the energy  of the illustrator's hand —  not through photography —  you feel the speed  in how the lines were made, typography —  bold — aggressive —  the energy of Image 5 —  left side —  massive condensed black type —  Impact or Haettenschweiler —  white —  stacked vertically reading upward —  I'VE —  JUST —  BEGUN —  each word a separate block —  the quote as architecture —  occupying full left third, right side —  contrasting —  Helvetica Neue Ultra Light —  6pt —  tracking 1000 —  vertical column —  bone white —  CRISTIANO · RONALDO ·  MADEIRA · PORTUGAL ·  MMXXIV, bottom —  full bleed —  yellow band —  Pantone 109C —  matching the vertical strokes —  containing in black —  Bebas Neue —  48pt —  CR7 · THE STANDARD IS ME, texture —  the ink illustration  has the tooth of  cold press watercolor paper —  the yellow paint  has actual brushstroke direction —  the boot photograph  is hypersmooth by contrast —  three different surface qualities  in one frame.