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Create a hand-painted, illustration-driven character design sheet for a director, art department, and animation team — the kind of board a folk-tale 2D animated feature would develop from. Character name: SEMYON "THE LAST STAND" KORSHUN — original / war-broken state. Must feel like a decorative, painterly folk-art pitch board, NOT a photoreal render and NOT a generic model sheet. CORE DIRECTIVE (NON-NEGOTIABLE): No generic layouts. No evenly spaced grids. No symmetry for symmetry's sake. Composition must feel art-directed, intentional, slightly asymmetrical — but framed with hand-painted ornamental borders and decorative negative space. Every section must feel placed by hand, not auto-generated. CHARACTER IDENTITY: Name: Semyon Korshun | Alias: "The Last Stand" | Age: mid-20s but hardened to read older | Height: 180 cm | Build: lean, wiry combat frame read through a strong flat silhouette, broad shoulders worn into a slight protective hunch, favors one side from a fresh chest wound, exhausted but coiled stance | Design Language: modern Russian / Eastern-Slavic contemporary-military folk-art fantasy — Bilibin-esque decorative stylization applied to a MODERN soldier, lubok-inspired, decorative stylization over anatomical realism. FACE DESIGN: Structure: angular masculine face built from confident, simplified shapes, strong jaw, high cheekbones gone gaunt from strain, bold clean outline | Skin: flat painted tone with subtle stylized shading, weathered warm ochre, soot and dirt suggested with decorative texture, short stubble stylized | Eyes: expressive, almond, deep-set with clean graphic linework, a fierce steel-grey with a burning, wrathful glint (the "убить-убить-убить" fury) balanced against deep fatigue | Hair: dark brown, short military cut, matted with sweat and dust, painted as stylized cropped locks with subtle rhythmic detailing | Distinct Features: a fresh through-and-through chest wound suggested by dark blood on the torso, a thin trickle of blood at the corner of the mouth (pierced lung), grazes across the cheekbone, calloused trigger finger, a keepsake token tied at the wrist. PSYCHOLOGICAL PROFILE: Core Traits: iron resolve, quiet grief for fallen brothers, fiercely protective of civilians, self-sacrificing, courage that refuses to fall | Internal Conflict: dying but unwilling to let the line break, torn between the survival instinct screaming to live and the duty to hold the position at any cost, grief that he could not save his men (his "пацаны") clashing with pride that he saved the civilians behind him | Behavior Patterns: touches the wrist-token when the pain spikes, grits his teeth against the blood in his throat, plants his feet and never backs down | Emotional Baseline: wrath forged over sorrow that shifts slowly toward peace; at the very end, quiet relief breaks through like sun through smoke. PERFORMANCE DIRECTION: Character must feel caught mid-moment, NOT posing — a living illustration, not a mannequin. Micro-expressions conveyed through graphic line and shape: jaw tension, teeth gritted through blood, a glint of rage suggested by a single highlight, a subtle brow shift from fury to acceptance. Emotion carried primarily by a strong readable silhouette and body attitude. Capture transitional emotion — a man holding the line while quietly making peace with dying. Body Language: grounded, heavy, protective, braced against pain | Movement rhythm: slow, deliberate, slightly dragging from the chest wound and blood loss | Idle behavior: stillness with tension, thumb worrying the wrist-token, chest heaving shallowly. WARDROBE (folk-ornamented, MODERN military): Garment 1: battered modern Russian-style combat gear — a scuffed plate carrier / bronejilet over a worn field uniform, its straps and pouch edges carrying worn embroidered Slavic folk motifs, faded and battle-scuffed | Garment 2: a torn field jacket, frayed mud-caked hem, dried and fresh blood darkening the chest and one shoulder, an ornamental woven border pattern half-destroyed | Layering logic: embroidered-collar undertunic → field uniform → plate carrier with pouches → torn jacket, worn thin at stress points | Footwear: heavy tactical combat boots, mud-caked, laces knotted and broken | Accessories: a faded fraying embroidered ribbon / keepsake from home, tied at the wrist; a battered dog-tag; a two-way radio clipped to the harness | Props: an assault rifle (Kalashnikov-type silhouette) with a leather-wrapped, folk-patterned grip and a notched, ornamented handguard, bolt pulled back mid-action; a spent grenade pin looped on one finger — his defining objects. MEDIUM / RENDERING (replaces photoreal "material accuracy"): Everything rendered as hand-painted decorative 2D folk illustration. Bold confident outlines, flat-to-gently-modeled color fills, gouache/tempera-like matte texture, decorative pattern work in cloth, straps and borders, rhythmic stylized detailing (curls, waves, motifs). Grit, soot, dirt and blood read as painterly decorative texture, NOT rendered grime. Rich but MELANCHOLIC, deliberately limited folk palette. No plastic, no 3D shading, no photographic light, no cel-anime gloss. TURNAROUND (STRICT): Full-body front, 3/4, side, back, 3/4 back views. Identical proportions, shape design, silhouette, and detail placement. No drift in face, wounds, ornament, or gear across any angle. HEAD STUDY: Front (neutral, hollow) | 3/4 (weary iron resolve — primary personality) | Profile (structure + wounds) | Looking Down (grief for fallen brothers) | Looking Up (a flicker of relief as the artillery saves him) | Dynamic Angle (intense, teeth-gritted, wrathful battle state — the "убить" fury). All expressions mid-thought, not posed. KEY ILLUSTRATION / MOOD FRAME (replaces cinematic portrait): Environment: a ruined dusk frontline — burning blindazhi (dugouts) rendered as decorative silhouettes, smoke, a shattered checkpoint (KPP), broken trench timbers, drones as small ornamental shapes in the smoke-heavy sky | Light: painted stylized light, warm amber glow of distant artillery fire against a cold desaturated field, contrast built through flat tonal shapes | Color Tone: muted melancholic folk palette (ash-grey, slate blue, dried-blood ochre, faded olive-green, faded gold) with a single warm accent from the fires | Expression: exhausted peace and relief, collapsed and leaning back against trench logs in the mud, watching the enemy retreat, a faint accepting half-smile as his edges begin to dissolve — stylized as decorative particles / motifs breaking off the silhouette | Composition: intimate, iconographic framing (near-lubok/icon composition), ornamental border, negative space used emotionally. LAYOUT: Clean, art-directed folk-illustration board on a warm neutral parchment-gray ground, with subtle hand-painted ornamental framing. Include: height scale, hand-lettered annotation callouts (chest wound, blood at mouth, rifle, keepsake token, radio, folk motifs on gear), wardrobe breakdown, and margin production notes. Must feel like a premium auteur folk-tale development board. STYLE: Hand-painted 2D folk-art animation — Slavic / Bilibin / lubok sensibility applied to a modern soldier, bold decorative outlines, flat matte gouache color, ornamental pattern work, strong emotional silhouettes, limited melancholic palette, storybook-fable atmosphere. Appealing stylized shapes and soft geometry, emotionally expressive over photoreal, high emotional readability. Auteur folk-tale animated feature aesthetic. CONSISTENCY RULE (STRICT): Face, proportions, wounds, gear, ornament, palette, and rendering approach must remain IDENTICAL across all views. No reinterpretation between angles. Ever. OUTPUT: High craft, rich decorative detail, confident linework, expressive but controlled. Development-ready fidelity suitable for a 2D folk-tale animated feature pitch deck.