Hand-drawn

Lantern alley

Say pencil and paper, or it becomes a photograph.

Lantern alley
Sample frame.

Prompt

A narrow old alley after rain, wet flagstones receding into mist, wooden lattice windows and gray tile eaves on both sides. A warm paper lantern hangs close on the left, another smaller one farther down the right eave. Damp stone walls and weeds at the base, puddles on the tiles. Pencil drawing with a light watercolor wash, visible paper fiber and dry-brush gaps, loose line, thin pigment, the paper color left showing. Muted ochre, ink gray, and a little lantern orange. Wide frame, the lane centered as a leading line, distance fading out. Not a photograph, not thick digital paint. No text, readable signs, or garbled lettering.

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