Detailed story strip

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, large eyes with big white highlights, standard proportions, 6 to 7 heads tall, the place drawn with ruled lines in perspective, surfaces left white or flat tone, no surface texture, soft warm mood. No text, speech balloons, panel borders, signatures or watermarks. Subject: An adult male and female colleague talk with small cups in a break room. Short hair for him and chin-length hair for her, plain shirts and jackets. Show faces and hands chest-up, the table and window frame.

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, large eyes with big white highlights, standard proportions, 6 to 7 heads tall, the place drawn with ruled lines in perspective, surfaces left white or flat tone, no surface texture, soft warm mood. No text, speech balloons, panel borders, signatures or watermarks. Subject: An adult woman colleague holds a small cup in one hand at a break-room entrance. Chin-length hair, a plain jacket, trousers and leather shoes. Show her whole figure from head to feet, the doorway and a shelf edge.