Prompt:
An illustration rendered with raw, expressive mixed-media aesthetics: aggressive charcoal-like linework, scratched ink textures, fragmented anatomy, and painterly digital smears. Lines feel restless and imperfect, with visible overdraw, splatter, and erosion. Color is limited but bold—muted flesh tones, dirty whites, deep blacks, oxidized reds—applied in uneven washes and abrupt blocks rather than smooth fills. Lighting is dramatic and high-contrast, with stark highlights and heavy shadow pools.
Composition:
Two young adult women sit facing each other in seiza on a traditional futon, barefoot. Their bodies are slightly distorted in a deliberately expressive way—elongated limbs, angular shoulders, subtle asymmetries—prioritizing emotion over realism.
Left woman: short pleated skirt and light blouse, rendered as rough shapes with torn edges and smeared color. Her vivid violet asymmetrical pixie haircut is suggested through sharp, jagged strokes. Her posture leans back, shoulders tense, eyes wide; the expression reads as startled disbelief through exaggerated contrast around the eyes and mouth.
Right woman: short denim-style overall (salopette), loosely indicated with textured blue-gray blocks and frayed outlines. Her voluminous pink double-bun hairstyle is bold and graphic, almost sculptural, with rough highlights and ink scratches. Voluptuous brast. Her expression mirrors surprise—wide eyes, parted lips—captured through stark facial planes and heavy shadow.
Center foreground: an open Christmas gift box on the futon, wrapping paper torn into abstract ribbons of color. Inside stands a black rooster, rendered with glossy black strokes and a deep, oxidized red comb—calm, static, and visually absurd amid the tension. The rooster’s solidity contrasts with the fragmented human figures.
Background: a loosely suggested, out-of-focus Christmas tree—only hints of triangular silhouette and warm, smeared light dots, as if seen through fogged glass. No clean details; everything recedes into texture and shadow.
Bottom caption (centered, small, unobtrusive):
“(© Emiliano Girina)”
The overall mood is festive yet dissonant, absurd through contrast rather than jokes—emotional shock conveyed via raw gesture, texture, and painterly violence.
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