In retrospect, that was a bad decision.If I can't expressed myself with Daz or other 3D apps, I won't express myself at all.
Since posting my Sorceress render in November, I've been in a constant creative tug-of-war between Daz and AI, and haven't rendered anything since. I need to express myself, whether with 3D or AI, whether Daz is part of my workflow or not. So, I'm starting the new year with AI.
This is my vision of goth beauty. I used Nano Banana Pro on Krea.ai. Incidentally, the shoes don't exist as a 3D asset. They're why I used AI, and was able to do so thanks to a YT tutorial on how to use image references in ChatGPT to generate prompts for Nano Banana. This was the reference for the shoes:

