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Wasteland Mutant Band - RPG Cover Illustration

Generated from: Original painted book-cover illustration, late-1970s / 1980s weird post-apocalyptic mutant science-fantasy tabletop RPG cover art style. Hand-painted airbrush and ink rendering: bold saturated color washes over heavy black linework and dense crosshatch shading, retro pulp paperback cover finishing, visible brush and stipple texture, dramatic chiaroscuro. Composition: low-angle hero shot. A band of four mutant scavengers stand heroic and defiant on a jagged rocky ridge in the immediate foreground, seen from slightly below so they loom against the sky. Left: a bestial mutant - a tall anthropomorphic boar-wolf hybrid in scavenged hide armor and welded scrap plating, tusked snout snarling. Center-right: a human mutant heroine with four arms, long ragged hair, and a glowing crystalline growth erupting from one shoulder and forearm, holding a jury-rigged energy rifle that crackles with acid-green discharge. Beside her a smaller hooded humanoid mutant with a cluster of insectoid eyestalks and chitinous carapace plating on the arms. Far right a stooped, sympathetic mutant with a third vestigial arm and a battered radiation suit, gripping a rusted antenna-staff. A chrome hovering drone skull with a single red sensor eye floats near the group, trailing frayed cables. Faces expressive and grotesque yet dignified and sympathetic - heroes, not monsters. Background: a colossal ruined pre-cataclysm mega-structure, a shattered leaning arcology tower half-buried in the dunes, broken gantry cranes and tangled cables jutting from the sand, distant broken highway pylons and a skeletal rusted ferris-wheel frame. Churning sky of sickly radiation storm: acid green and deep magenta clouds boiling violently, a small dying orange sun low on the horizon, lightning of green plasma. Airborne dust and drifting ash, silhouetted flocks of mutant birds. Palette: acid green, burnt orange, deep magenta, oxidized teal, bone-white highlights against near-black shadows. Gritty, ominous, gonzo, epic. Absolutely no text, no letters, no numbers, no title, no logo, no signature, no watermark, no border, no frame anywhere in the image. Pure painted artwork edge to edge.