Lichtenstein Ben-Day Enlargement (Style-Only, Image-Conditioned)
Style register: Roy Lichtenstein's 1960s enlarged print grammar, hand-painted industrial dots and emphatic contours without borrowed comic imagery or dialogue.

The prompt
Re-render this image as a monumental 1960s Pop painting in the print-enlargement register of Roy Lichtenstein. Keep the source subject and its silhouette instantly recognizable, but translate tonal passages into widely spaced, perfectly circular Ben-Day dots: red dots over warm paper for midtone skin or surfaces, blue dots for cool shadow, and open paper for highlights. Make the circles individually visible at thumbnail scale rather than fine photographic halftone. Encircle major shapes in heavy, slightly wavering black ink outlines, as if a tiny offset print has been projected onto a wall and meticulously repainted by hand. Separate the contours from the dot fields by a hairline of paper in selected places. Use primary yellow, cobalt blue, signal red, dense black, and warm uncoated white. Favor one dramatic close view, with its existing pose and framing held firm, over a busy graphic backdrop. Allow a faint screen weave, minor paint thickness at the edges, and a few imperfectly filled dots. The mood is public and emphatic, with ordinary feeling made strangely monumental. No dialogue balloons, narrative panels, borrowed characters, or pictorial captions. Leave a calm, uncluttered band of negative space along the top or bottom edge where a title could sit. Strictly no on-canvas text, no legible lettering, no signature, no watermark, no logos. Preserve the subject, pose, and composition of the source image exactly, change only the medium and rendering. Aspect ratio matches source.
What it is doing
When a machine's tonal shorthand is enlarged until each dot becomes a deliberate painted decision, mass culture stops looking effortless. The work exposes the labor hiding behind a supposedly automatic picture. A private expression becomes a public surface without needing a borrowed speech balloon.
Tuning knobs
- Dot spacing: `widely separated circles` (signature) vs `dense dot veil` vs `sparse dots on shadows only`
- Outline: `heavy black brush edge` (signature) vs `thin lithographic edge` vs `intermittent contour`
- Paper: `warm uncoated white` (signature) vs `yellowed pulp` vs `bright coated white`
- Color: `primary red blue yellow` (signature) vs `red black cream` vs `blue yellow black`
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