Heavy layered darkness

Black-and-white Japanese manga. dip-pen lines with crisp tapered ends and strong thick-to-thin variation, two or three layers of halftone screentone, highlights scraped out to white with a cutter, smaller natural-shaped eyes, standard proportions, 6 to 7 heads tall, the place drawn in detail with ruled lines in perspective, shadows as solid black and flat tone, the figure kept clear against it, dark ominous mood. No text, speech balloons, panel borders, signatures or watermarks. Subject: An adult man and woman stare at a small notebook without lettering beside a room wall. Short hair and chin-length hair, plain jackets. Show faces and hands waist-up, the wall and table boundary.

Black-and-white Japanese manga. dip-pen lines with crisp tapered ends and strong thick-to-thin variation, two or three layers of halftone screentone, highlights scraped out to white with a cutter, smaller natural-shaped eyes, standard proportions, 6 to 7 heads tall, the place drawn in detail with ruled lines in perspective, shadows as solid black and flat tone, the figure kept clear against it, dark ominous mood. No text, speech balloons, panel borders, signatures or watermarks. Subject: An adult woman holds a small closed notebook in one hand at a room doorway. Chin-length hair, a plain jacket, trousers and flat shoes. Show her complete figure from head to feet, the door and floor.