Image 1 is the character reference: keep this same young man, same face, same copper-red curly hair, same long dark navy coat, white shirt, thin dark tie, dark trousers, brown boots, paper coffee cup and slim closed black umbrella with a wooden crook handle. Images 2 and 3 are style references only: copy their painting manner exactly, simple flat gouache shapes, clean graphic silhouettes, very little detail, big calm areas of pale colour, soft washed background fading into white mist. Do not copy any person, place or object from images 2 and 3. Scene: dry pale sidewalk on a calm overcast day, simple pale city buildings fading into mist, no landmarks. A delivery courier carries a very tall tower of cardboard boxes that hides his face, and the top box is starting to slide off. Our tall thin hero strolls past in the foreground, sipping coffee with half-closed eyes, not even looking, and with one lazy movement of his arm the tip of the closed umbrella nudges the falling box back onto the tower. Few background details, no crowd, no puddles, no wet ground, no autumn leaves, no street lamps. Full figures visible, boots on the ground. No text, no logos, no watermark.
