A retro Ghost Cel illustration

A retro Ghost Cel illustration, a lost 1990s OVA frame of hand-inked cel animation over a gouache-painted background, in a strict palette of lacquer black and bone white with one saturated accent, of an android woman with steel wings drawn with mature seinen realism, standing on a foundry catwalk beneath a colossal tipping ladle, seen from a steep low angle. In the upper center of the frame, the woman stands at the catwalk rail with her weight on one hip, tall and long-limbed in adult proportions, her cropped grey hair swept back, narrow eyes calm under a heavy brow, a scuffed black leather welding apron over a grey flight suit. Behind her shoulders, two folded wings of riveted grey steel plates hang to her heels, every plate shaded with fine crosshatching and dot screentone. Beside her boot, a single welding glove hangs from the rail, the smallest pale shape in the frame. Across the base, the foundry floor spreads in black ink, crowded with chains, crucibles and scattered white sparks. Behind the catwalk, a calm flat band of grey smoke drifts between the girders. Towering above her, a colossal casting ladle tips forward on its trunnions, pouring a thick river of saturated molten orange metal that falls past the catwalk like a burning curtain. At the very top, the smokestacks part around a narrow slot of pale dawn sky. Rich visual tension between the saturated molten orange pour, deep lacquer black, and pale bone-white steam, featuring a steep low angle up the falling metal, crisp hairline ink linework with flat hard-edged cel shading, heavy analog grain with faint halftone and VHS chroma bleed on the highlights, pale production pencil marks ghosting through the margins with registration crosses and a penciled pan arrow, furnace underlight, and a weary, molten reverence.