Prompt:
(masterpiece, best quality, ultra-detailed:1.4), (oil painting on canvas:1.3), heavy impasto texture, visible layered brushstrokes, dramatic chiaroscuro lighting, cinematic depth of field.
A dark surrealist street scene — a twisted dreamscape at night, drenched in a moody palette of deep indigo, charcoal black, and sickly amber. Crumbling gothic architecture looms over fog-shrouded cobblestone alleys. Flickering lanterns cast animate, dancing light through the creeping mist.
From the gloom emerge spectral inhabitants: fragile ghostlike figures and cracked porcelain marionettes, children with hollow candlelit eyes, hybrid beasts stitched from rusted metal, feathers, and bone.
The environment breathes with surreal decay — the ink-stained sky bleeds through, revealing floating doors that swing open into voids. Street walls writhe with organic graffiti: weeping masks, winged skulls, baroque sigils. Upside-down clocks melt slowly over archways, and a monstrous book with jagged teeth flutters past like a living omen.
The technique fuses rich oil texture with fluid watercolor and ink in a wet-on-wet style, forming spectral clouds and shadowy tendrils.
Artistic Fusion: the haunting whimsy of Tim Burton, the intricate fantasy of Jacek Yerka, the dark surrealism of Zdzisław Beksiński, the elegant linework of Yoshitaka Amano, and the textured emotional rawness of Kaia Coopman.
Mood: eerie stillness before a storm, poetic dread and haunted wonder, cinematic surrealism.
Style tags: (dark surrealism, gothic fantasy, ethereal horror, painterly realism, atmospheric lighting, volumetric fog, cinematic composition).
Negative prompt: (text, watermark, signature, frame, border, low quality, blurry details, oversaturated colors:1.5).
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