Manticore in a Brass Steampunk Workshop

Anime-style illustration of a majestic manticore in a bustling steampunk workshop. The manticore has the lion’s body, a human-like ornate face, and a scorpion tail ending in a gleaming mechanical stinger. The workshop teems with brass and copper machinery: gears, pistons, steam vents, riveted metal walls, wooden workbenches, blueprints, and glass vials. Warm amber lighting with glowing blue runes and sparks from a welding arc. The creature wears leather-brass armor plates and is surrounded by partially assembled automata, tools, and schematics. Color palette emphasizes brass, gold, copper with teal highlights; cel-shaded anime style, dynamic pose, three-quarter view, cinematic composition, dust motes in the air, dramatic shadows.