Nostalgic lo-fi anime illustration of the subjects reposed in a relaxed slouched seated moment: clean loose tapered ink linework with light hatching and pencil scuffs, flat muted fills with one soft shadow tone, small calm facial features with subtle blush. Background is a plain off white plaster wall with faint texture marks and wide empty space, airy even when the supplied photo is busy. Colours and clothing follow the supplied photo. Even diffuse light with a faint warm cast, matte slightly grainy finish, no text or lettering. An adult in a long sleeve flag stripe rash guard, leggings and a star cap holds a bodyboard at the shoreline. A crab waves one claw from a rock pool like a tiny lifeguard. No lettering.
Light: soft hazy shoreline light; palette of muted red, foam grey and cap navy; shy, calm, tender.
Tall 9:16 portrait frame, composed vertically with the main line of the scene rising through the height of the frame. The standard flag shows exactly thirteen horizontal stripes starting and ending with red and a blue canton with star rows in the upper hoist corner; any interpretive flag stays recognisable and is never torn, burned, defaced or on the ground. No readable text, lettering, slogans or logos anywhere; any people are fictional fully clothed adults with clearly adult proportions and faces.
