Ink Starved Pressure Gaps (Style-Only, Image-Conditioned)
Style register: uneven drum transfer, broad dry gaps within solid fields, and the paper feed direction legible in the damaged ink.

The prompt
Re-render this image as an ink-starved risograph impression, drawing on process-exposing experimental print design with layered grids and overprints, as well as small independent stencil studios. Plan a single dense forest-green master for the major forms and a restrained warm orange master for a few existing highlights. Imagine the green drum nearly exhausted on one edge of the run: broad solid fields begin with good coverage, then fade into patchy transfer and narrow dry streaks aligned with the direction the sheet travels through the machine. Keep the streaks inside inked areas only. Bare paper must remain clean, so the marks read as missing pigment, not scratches added over the whole image. Let the orange second pass stay comparatively even, providing a visual control against the green's unreliable pressure. Where both passes cross, warm orange should peek through the green gaps instead of forming an opaque painted topcoat. Slight feeder drift leaves a small offset at a few outer contours; never let the damage dissolve the subject's overall silhouette. Uncoated cream paper absorbs surviving green patches unevenly, with rough-edged ink islands and occasional deeper pressure at one end of a shape. The mood is resourceful and physical: a usable print kept because its failure reveals the mechanics of the run. 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
An uneven run can carry more information about its making than a flawless impression. Directional gaps record a feed and pressure event, not a generic distress texture. The intact second pass keeps that distinction easy to see.
Tuning knobs
- Coverage loss: `patches and narrow dry streaks` (signature) vs `subtle fading` vs `large bare islands`
- Failure location: `one edge of dense fields` (signature) vs `central dense fields` vs `scattered across shadows`
- Control pass: `even warm orange` (signature) vs `pale yellow` vs `no second drum`
- Feed trace: `parallel narrow streaks` (signature) vs `broad pressure bands` vs `isolated gaps`
- Paper: `uncoated cream` (signature) vs `rough white` vs `recycled gray`
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