Art style: Modern 2D Webcomic.
A minimalist 2D whiteboard scene showing a stickman climbing onto the fifth step of a staircase, where a small sprouting plant with a tiny leaf and a growth-arrow icon emerges from a little pot beside them. The stickman gazes at the sprout with hopeful, brightening eyes and a small upturned mouth. Medium shot at eye level. Flat even lighting on an off-white background. Mood of quiet hope and new beginnings. Palette of black line work with a soft green sprout and a subtle upward green arrow on a warm cream backdrop.
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FINAL STYLE ENFORCEMENT (this is the authoritative rendering directive — it overrides any style wording elsewhere in the prompt):
Render this image entirely in "Modern 2D Webcomic" style. Match the lighting grammar, material response, colour science, level of realism / stylisation, line weight, and shading model typical of "Modern 2D Webcomic". Keep the subject, composition, camera angle, lighting direction, and colour palette from the description above — but EVERY surface, skin, fabric, material, and environmental element must be rendered in the "Modern 2D Webcomic" idiom, not in any other medium.
