Genur.art

A manga-style ink illustration with dense aggressive cross-hatching and rough scratchy contour lines, colored in a limited muted palette with one or two accent colors, grotesque dark horror fantasy. Palette of cold blue, black and ruby red. A bird's-eye view straight down onto the floor of an abandoned church. A thin old puppeteer in a long patched coat and a top hat kneels in the center of the floor, his arms raised and limp like a marionette's, his head hanging to the side. Thin silver strings are tied to his wrists, elbows, knees and head and rise straight up toward the viewer, where they are held by a ring of small floating blue flames, each flame with a tiny grinning face. His fingertips and the strings near his hands are crystallizing into sharp clear quartz, and crystal is spreading up his arms. Broken wooden puppets lie around him on the floor. Cold moonlight falls through a tall stained glass window and lays a large pattern of blue and ruby red colored light across the floor and over his body, while the blue flames glow above him.