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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: KORSHUN — the sentry who would not fall. 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: Korshun | Role: frontline sentry / contract soldier | Age: mid-30s, weathered | Height: 180 cm | Build: solid, broad-shouldered, hardy frame read through a strong flat silhouette, grounded planted stance, coiled endurance | Design Language: Slavic / Eastern-European folk-art fantasy — Bilibin-esque, lubok-inspired, decorative stylization over anatomical realism. FACE DESIGN: Structure: broad masculine face built from confident simplified shapes, strong jaw, heavy brow, bold clean outline | Skin: flat painted tone with subtle stylized shading, weathered warm ochre, dirt and soot suggested as decorative texture | Eyes: expressive, deep-set, clear steel-grey with clean graphic linework, a hard resolute gaze | Hair: dark brown, short, matted under the helmet, painted as stylized shapes | Facial hair: short thick dark beard / heavy stubble, stylized | Distinct Features: a small old scar on the cheekbone, calloused knuckles. PSYCHOLOGICAL PROFILE: Core Traits: iron stubbornness, protective fury, self-sacrifice, courage past his own death | Internal Conflict: torn between the boys he could not save and the civilians he could — driven by duty over survival | Behavior Patterns: sets his jaw, plants his feet, never backs down | Emotional Baseline: grim calm that erupts into wrathful resolve under fire. PERFORMANCE DIRECTION: Character must feel caught mid-moment, NOT posing — a living illustration, not a mannequin. Micro-expressions through graphic line and shape: jaw tension, teeth gritted, a single highlight of fury in the eye, a brow set in refusal. Emotion carried by a strong readable silhouette and body attitude. Capture transitional emotion — a man refusing to die before the job is done. Body Language: grounded, heavy, forward-driving | Movement rhythm: relentless, driving, dragging only at the very end | Idle behavior: stillness with tension, hand on the rifle. WARDROBE (folk-ornamented): Garment 1: modern Russian combat kit — helmet, plate carrier / chest rig, camouflage field uniform — but its straps and edges carry worn embroidered Slavic folk motifs, faded and battle-scuffed | Garment 2: a torn field cloak / poncho, mud-caked hem, dried blood darkening one shoulder, an ornamental woven border half-destroyed | Layering logic: field shirt → plate carrier → helmet, worn thin at stress points | Footwear: heavy tactical boots, mud-caked | Accessories: RF tricolor sleeve patch stylized as folk ornament, a dog-tag / keepsake at the wrist | Props: an AK-pattern rifle — its stock and grip carrying folk-patterned notches, his defining object; grenades at the rig. MEDIUM / RENDERING: Everything rendered as hand-painted decorative 2D folk illustration. Bold confident ink outlines with line-weight variation, flat-to-gently-modeled gouache color fills, tempera-like matte texture, decorative pattern work in cloth and borders, rhythmic stylized detailing. Grit, soot and blood read as painterly decorative texture, NOT rendered grime. Rich but grim, deliberately limited folk palette with a cool accent. 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, scar, ornament, or costume across any angle. HEAD STUDY: Front (grim calm) | 3/4 (hard resolve — primary personality) | Profile (structure + jaw) | Looking Down (grief for the fallen) | Looking Up (defiance) | Dynamic Angle (wrath, teeth-gritted battle state). All expressions mid-thought, not posed. KEY ILLUSTRATION / MOOD FRAME: Environment: a burning frontline checkpoint at grey dawn — smoke, broken sandbags and shattered barriers rendered as decorative silhouettes. Light: painted stylized firelight, warm ember glow against a cold desaturated field. Color Tone: muted folk palette (ash-grey, smoke-black, slate-blue, blood-ochre) with a single warm accent. Expression: grim wrath breaking into resolve, rifle raised. Composition: intimate, iconographic framing, ornamental border, emotional negative space. 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 (beard, cheek scar, RF patch, AK rifle, folk motifs), 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, bold decorative outlines, flat matte gouache color, ornamental pattern work, strong emotional silhouettes, limited grim palette with cool accent, 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, scar, costume, 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.