Dry brush and ink

Black-and-white Japanese manga. scratchy broken dry lines, brush blacks with bled, ragged edges, deeply chiseled facial structure, thick eyebrows, standard proportions, 6 to 7 heads tall, behind the figure plain white or one flat tone; the place shown only as distant simple shapes, heavy grim mood. No text, speech balloons, panel borders, signatures or watermarks. Subject: An adult man sits on a park bench calmly reading an open book. Short hair, a plain jacket, trousers and flat shoes. A chest-up view with face and hands visible. One bench edge.

Black-and-white Japanese manga. scratchy broken dry lines, brush blacks with bled, ragged edges, deeply chiseled facial structure, thick eyebrows, standard proportions, 6 to 7 heads tall, behind the figure plain white or one flat tone; the place shown only as distant simple shapes, heavy grim mood. No text, speech balloons, panel borders, signatures or watermarks. Subject: An adult woman arranges wooden building blocks side by side on a worktable. A short bob, a plain top, trousers and flat shoes. Show her complete figure from head to feet. A table edge and wooden blocks.