Canvas: 1024x1024 RGBA PNG, fully transparent except the item and the gripping finger bones.
Style: dark fantasy ink illustration, heavy black outlines, flat cel shading with gritty texture, ember-orange and ghostly-teal rim light with glowing highlights, matching the attached base's line weight exactly.
Pose: the skeleton faces three-quarter-right; draw every item in that perspective.
Grip: the item's handle, shaft or stem passes through the base's raised bony hand centred at (935, 640). Redraw that hand as a closed grip around the handle: four separate finger bones curl around the front of the handle with a thin black line between each phalanx, the thumb bone crosses over them, all in the base's bone white with the same rim light; no solid black mass anywhere in the grip.
Placement rule (one rule for every variant): the item extends UPWARD from the fist; every item pixel lies inside x 560-1024, y 40-700; no item pixel lies inside the head box x 360-700, y 230-570; nothing is drawn below y 700, so the wrist and forearm (x 870-970, y 700-890) stay fully visible. Paint only what is in front of the hand and character; nothing behind them.
Items, two variants each, clearly different in shape, material and colour: 01-02 a huge curved scythe: the fist holds the lower end of a long wooden or black iron shaft that ends just under the fist and rises to near y 60, the curved blade sweeping left above the head (01 rusted iron blade on weathered wood, 02 black steel blade with teal glowing edge); 03-04 a lantern on a short iron crook-pole held upright, the lantern hanging from the crook above the fist and glowing green (03 tarnished brass cage, 04 black iron with cracked green glass); 05-06 a cracked hourglass gripped around its lower frame and standing upright above the fist (05 dark wood frame with ember sand, 06 bone-white frame with glowing teal sand); 07-08 a rusted chain gripped in the fist, its loops rising and coiling upward and ending in a hook above the hand (07 orange-rust chain with iron meat hook, 08 blackened chain with a glowing ember-hot hook); 09-10 a black candle held upright, a blue flame on top (09 single tall dripping candle, 10 thick stubby candle with a tall roaring blue flame); 11-12 a bundle of soul-wisps gripped by their thin tails, the wisps rising and curling upward as translucent glowing spirits with faint faces (11 ghostly teal, 12 pale green).
Files: artifacts/held_01.png .. artifacts/held_12.png.
Weights file: artifacts/held.json, an array of {"file","name","weight"} with weights summing to 100: held_01 6, held_02 4, held_03 10, held_04 8, held_05 10, held_06 7, held_07 11, held_08 8, held_09 12, held_10 9, held_11 9, held_12 6. Write artifacts/held_01.png .. artifacts/held_16.png and artifacts/held.json: an array of {"file","name","weight"} with weights summing to 100, rarer lower.
