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 gaze at a small blank envelope in an old house hallway. Ear-length hair for him and shoulder-length hair for her, plain jackets. Show faces and hands chest-up, a door frame and the distant hall.

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 stands on an old house veranda holding a small empty tray in one hand. Shoulder-length hair, a plain long jacket, trousers and flat shoes. Show her complete figure from head to feet, a post and garden boundary.