Sunlit cafe window ink sketch

A full-canvas sunlit travel-diary illustration of a woman smiling by a sunlit cafe window, drawn like a hand-inked animation background. Slightly imperfect pen-and-ink contours in dark charcoal or muted sepia — never pure black — over crisp cel-style color blocking with a restrained gouache and transparent-wash texture. Simplify tones into three to six value steps per object, keep sunlit sides broad and clean with hard-edged cast shadows, and use warm cream instead of sterile white for highlights. Build the palette from five to eight color families with one cool dominant such as sky blue, blue-green or leaf green, and at most two warm accents like lemon yellow or terracotta. Organize the scene into two to four readable depth planes with the most line detail up front. Hand-observed, tactile, quietly nostalgic — no photo textures, no glossy concept-art rendering, no thick uniform comic outlines.