Cyberpunk

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. Check the technical details too — circuits, interfaces and lettering call for straight, even lines and a perspective that holds. Look for pieces healed for at least a year: that's where you see whether the bright colors went in densely enough to last. When you contact an artist from their profile, ask whether they draw the design themselves, how they'll split the sessions between black and color, and who will check any text in a language you don't read.

An augmented eye, an arm prosthetic, an android face, a printed circuit board, a barcode, a neon sign, a skyline in the rain, a fragmented interface, a portrait broken up by a glitch. 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. Requests from games and films, such as Cyberpunk 2077, are common; their logos and characters belong to their publishers, so plenty of artists prefer an interpretation — a reworked logo, a prosthetic, an atmosphere — to an exact copy. Raise it plainly: your artist will tell you what they're willing to do and to post. A recognizable character also falls under Anime & Pop Culture on YokoFolio, so look there too.

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, with the scene wrapping around the arm instead of sitting flat on it. 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. Ask to see healed sleeves, not just fresh photos: neon colors look their brightest on the first day, and what counts is how they've settled a year later. If a full sleeve is too much, a forearm can hold one strong scene.

Chrome renders a material: a single shape, a heart, a drop or a word turned into polished or liquid metal, mostly in black and grey, with mirror highlights and no scene around it. Cyberpunk shows a world — neon signs, circuits, robots, interfaces, glitches, cities in the rain — usually in cyan, magenta and violet over deep black, and it may borrow chrome surfaces along the way. Biomechanical puts the machinery inside the body: pistons, cables and plates that seem to work beneath an opened skin, following the muscles. In Cyberpunk, technology stays a subject you look at — a prosthetic arm, an android, a skyline — with no torn skin revealing a machine inside your own body. If technology is the subject, lit by neon or broken by glitches, with no opened skin, it's Cyberpunk.