skull-cloud portrait digital painting

A towering skull-faced old man occupies the central vertical axis and fills roughly two-thirds of the 2:3 frame, his forehead at the upper third and his beard and lower jaw dissolving into the lower third over the churning sea. Clouds form the skull surface and cheek hollows with textured erosion and pitted bone detail visible where clouds thin, while a flowing, wind-tangled beard of vapor and mist weaves through the mid and lower frame. The lower third is a turbulent dark ocean with cresting waves and spray that integrate into cloud plumes rising toward the face. Surrounding sky fills the upper third with layered cumulus and wisps, small birds and spray silhouettes near the top-right third for scale. Light is a cool, desaturated teal-gray bias with strong side contrast that sculpts deep hollows and soft rim highlights on cloud edges. Render as a high-contrast, photoreal digital-painting with painterly grain, fine hair and beard fibers surviving as wispy strokes, and visible water spray texture where sea meets vapor.