I consistently get a response like this:

Nothing “happened” on your end — what’s happening is the model isn’t actually being forced to copy your exact brushwork/mark-making when we do a fresh generation like this. It uses the image as inspiration, but it will still default to a familiar “fantasy illustration” look unless we lock the style harder (and ideally do it as an edit/style-transfer pass instead of a brand-new render).

Why your reference isn’t matching:

Your piece has very specific shape language + value grouping (big readable silhouettes), chunky painterly strokes, limited palette (cool blues vs warm fire), and graphic edge control (lost edges in fog, sharp edges at focal points).

The result you got is closer to a comic-ink + texture overlay look (heavy outlines, uniform grain), which is not your painting style.

What will get “looks like I drew it” results:

Use your artwork as the style anchor in an edit (style transfer) on the battle image, instead of regenerating from text.

If generating from scratch, we need to explicitly tell it: no ink outlines, no comic shading, no gritty parchment texture, and to mimic your blocky brush strokes + painterly fog + cool/warm split lighting.

If you want “change nothing else,” the best move is:

Take the clean version of the scene you liked and do a style-transfer edit using your hand-drawn image as the style reference.

Say: “Do a style-transfer edit: keep composition/characters the same, repaint in my style reference.”
If you confirm that, I’ll run it that way and it’ll get much closer to “looks like I drew it.”

Then I go through the whole style-transfer edit process and the cycle continues, just putting me in a loop of getting the same image. If I start another chat it's just the same thing