A Doctor Doom spotlight lives or dies in a square. Collectors see the NFT thumbnail before they open interiors. A cloak-heavy wide shot that looks generous as a printed wrap becomes a grey smear at 400 pixels.
Niran crops to the mask first: eye slits, cheek planes, the gold at the jaw. The cloak can bleed. The Latverian banner can sit in a corner. If the helmet is not readable in grayscale, the cover goes back.
We keep a paper thumbnail taped next to the monitor. It is unromantic and it catches more mistakes than a large proof alone. Spotlight editions are villain faces. If the face fails at thumbnail size, the issue is not ready to join the themed calendar.