Cyberpunk
What is Cyberpunk?
FAQ
Cyberpunk
Cyberpunk
What is Cyberpunk?
FAQ
Cyberpunk
Cyberpunk tattoos a whole world: neon, circuitry, prosthetics and rain-soaked cities, in a cold, saturated palette.
Cyberpunk draws on the urban science fiction of the 1980s — Blade Runner, Neuromancer, the Japanese manga of the same vein — and on everything that has come out of it since. Neon, printed circuits, interfaces, barcodes, technical typography, prosthetics, vertical cities in the rain: a cold, saturated palette dominated by cyan, magenta and violet, usually over deep black. It differs from cyber-tribal in what it shows: cyber-tribal tattoos a design, cyberpunk tattoos a world. Its pieces are often narrative and need room to set up their scenery, their depth and their layered planes. It borrows readily from chrome for its surfaces and from technical lettering for its inscriptions, to the point that the three often cross in the same piece.
On YokoFolio, pick the style Cyberpunk and then your city, and widen the radius if you need to. Look at how the artist handles light: a believable neon needs genuinely deep blacks around it, highlights placed just right, and clean transitions. Without that, the effect falls flat. Look for pieces healed for at least a year — that's where you see whether the bright colors went in densely enough to last.
The request is a common one, and it falls under copyright like any other work: the game belongs to its publisher, and the exposure lands mostly on the artist who advertises it. So plenty of them prefer to offer an interpretation — a reworked logo, a prosthetic, an atmosphere — rather than an exact copy. Raise it plainly: your artist will tell you what they're willing to do and to post.
An augmented eye, an arm prosthetic, a printed circuit surfacing under the skin, a barcode, a neon sign, a skyline in the rain, a fragmented interface. Inscriptions in technical typography are part of the vocabulary — have them checked if they're in a language you don't read. For a small piece, pick a single object rather than a scene: scenery shrunk down goes unreadable fast.
It's the ideal format. The style rests on depth — a foreground, a city behind it, signage, rain — and a sleeve gives you the room to set those planes up. Count on several sessions a few weeks apart, often with one appointment dedicated to the black and grey structure before any color. Have the whole layout drawn before you start — you can't build a backdrop one piece at a time.