CHARACTER: Canvas 1024x1024, transparent PNG.

Style: clean flat cartoon, bold even dark outlines, flat cel colour with one soft shade tone. Draw ONE garden gnome base, three-quarter view looking to the viewer's left, framed from the crown to the waist with both arms in frame.

Placement: crown y=110, eye line y=270, chin y=420, neck narrowest y=450, collar line about y=480, head 290px wide at the cheekbones with the head mass centred on x=512; the face centre line sits near x=490 because the face turns left, near eye about x=455, far eye about x=545, mouth area y=350.

Gnome proportions: round domed cranium, large round nose at about y=320, rosy cheeks, stout rounded torso, short arms.

Raised hand: the near hand is raised in front of the chest at about x=400, y=720 in a loose EMPTY grip, fingers curled around nothing; draw no held item. Do NOT draw a mouth, hat, glasses or any clothing: bare neck, bare shoulders and bare torso in skin tone, no collar, scarf, belt or shirt.

Beard: draw no beard over the mouth area or neck; at most short sideburn fluff along the cheeks above y=330, so the mouth and jumper layers can sit on top.

Output: character/base.png.

Weights file: character/weights.json with {"base": 1}.

BACKGROUND: Canvas 1024x1024, opaque PNG, full bleed.

Style: flat colour or soft two-tone vertical or radial gradient, matching the warm storybook gnome palette (moss green, terracotta, cream, sky blue, mushroom red, soil brown, butter yellow, lavender and similar muted tones). No scenery, objects, texture, patterns or vignette shapes; keep the centre area x=220-800, y=80-1024 calm so the gnome, viewed three-quarter facing left, reads clearly.

Make 12 distinct backgrounds, each one colour or a gentle gradient between two neighbouring palette colours.

Outputs: background/background_01.png through background/background_12.png.

Weights file: background/weights.json mapping each file name to an integer weight; use 10 for each of 9 common flat colours and 5 for each of 3 gradients. Write artifacts/base.png, artifacts/background_01.png .. background_12.png, and artifacts/traits.json: {"backgrounds":[{"file","name","weight"}...]} with weights summing to 100.