Art style: 2D Hand-drawn.
Full-length view, the entire figure visible from head to feet, standing upright, figure centered on a busy construction site with scaffolding, concrete pillars and stacked rebar filling the sides. Nikolaich is a weathered man in his early sixties, medium-tall with a stocky, slightly stooped build and a small belly. He has a broad, deeply lined ruddy face, greying stubble, bushy salt-and-pepper eyebrows and short cropped grey hair under a scuffed orange hard hat pushed back. Squinting cynical eyes, a wry sideways smirk. He wears a faded dark-blue quilted work jacket over a grey sweater, muddy canvas trousers with a tool belt, and heavy scuffed steel-toe work boots. One rough calloused hand rests on his hip, the other holds a smoking cigarette. Tired, knowing, been-there-done-it-all posture.
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FINAL STYLE ENFORCEMENT (this is the authoritative rendering directive — it overrides any style wording elsewhere in the prompt):
Render this image in the following art style:
Classic 2D hand-drawn animation, clean expressive outlines, simplified shapes, soft cel shading, illustrated backgrounds, traditional animated-film aesthetic.
Every surface, skin, fabric, material, and environmental element must be rendered in this idiom.
