Engraving of a modern nativity in a city alley with graffiti, featuring parents, baby, man, and animals.

Style lock: Gustave Doré copperplate engraving. No digital sketching. No cartoon features. No soft lines. Only etched hatching. Use drypoint, intaglio, and precise architectural draftsmanship. A black-and-white digital engraving in the exact style of a 19th-century copperplate intaglio etching. This is not a sketch, not a drawing, not a painting. It must look like a plate used in a vintage printing press. All texture and shading must be created only through disciplined hatching: fine vertical, horizontal, and diagonal lines, with visible cross-hatching and drypoint burrs. There should be no soft shading, no grayscale, no sepia, no smudging, no digital brushstrokes. Every surface must be defined using engraved lines only. The scene: a modern nativity set in a narrow, graffiti-covered alleyway in New York City. A newborn lies in a dented oil barrel surrounded by cardboard and rags. Two humble young parents in ancient Middle Eastern robes kneel beside the barrel, looking peacefully at the child. A rugged man in jeans and a wrinkled t-shirt, visibly marked by tattoos and a hard life, stands nearby in awe. Around them are stray dogs, a cat, and pigeons. The alley is narrow and urban, with brick walls, fire escapes, and distant city buildings, all rendered with strict architectural perspective and line-etched texture. Style: Exactly like a black-and-white Gustave Doré engraving. Sacred. Detailed. Solemn. Widescreen. Landscape format. See more