I want to do a good crucifixion video eventually, and the first step to get there is a good starter image.

This image did not come from a single text-to-image prompt. Way, WAY from that. I lost track, but I'd say it probably took 20-30 steps to get here, and each of those steps involved a lot of trial and error with trying to phrase prompts for best results, and often just settling for a baby step as the best that I could do.

Since explaining these issues requires multiple images, so I'll do that in a series of replies.