Round 95: one composition, finished three ways

The game's own render

Honest, and what you said: up close the game "doesn't look that good". The lich is a smooth, low-detail model.

R1 The game itself, at its own 640x360, pixels scaled up: the staging rendered by the game at its native resolution, every pixel scaled up whole (2x for the main capsule; about 3x for the vertical, which needed a few more rows than a whole 3x holds)

Painted

Real bone, real paint. P3/P4 took the It Follows cover as their style reference.

P1 Oil, plain (Nano Banana Pro): the 4x render below repainted as an oil painting, the mask then corrected to his blank shell in a second pass

P2 Oil, plain (Nano Banana 2.1): the same prompt on the other model

P3 Oil, after the It Follows cover (Pro): the render plus the It Follows egg cover as the style reference; it took the cover's darkness too, so the field is no longer flat

P4 Oil, after the It Follows cover (2.1): the same, the other model

P5 The mirrored framing, after the It Follows cover (Pro): the other camera: his arm flung left, head and mask to the right (as Kaen faces)

Engraved

The old-book side, matching the font: ink lines on a coloured paper, like the anatomy plates on the board.

E1 Engraving, ink on amber paper (Pro): the render redrawn as a copperplate engraving in the manner of Vesalius' plates (S11, S17), printed on amber

E2 Engraving, ink on amber paper (2.1): the same prompt on the other model (its mask came out blank already)