Suzanne: Year of the Monkey
Pure entry, Cycles render, 32 samples & compositor denoising in 2.90.0 beta. Central composition, 1x1 aspect ratio. Things I did for this that I’ve never done in Blender before: modeled contact lenses for Suzanne to get smoother eyeshines, and used the compositor’s Alpha Over node to attempt a match of the intended destination’s background color (earlier render had a transparent background, which doesn’t work on this forum 
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Thanks again to @Xeofrios and @Millani for the compositor suggestions that improved the procedural starfield!
Wikipedia’s Year of the Monkey page
The Year of Suzanne 012.blend (1.2 MB)