Art style: Modern 2D Webcomic.
A minimalist 2D whiteboard scene showing a stickman frozen on the fourth step of a staircase, looking around in confusion with a bewildered expression, dot eyes glancing side to side and a small question mark floating above the head. The figure's feet appear stuck to the step. Medium shot at eye level, the higher steps fading upward unreached. Flat even lighting on an off-white background. Mood of stagnation and quiet frustration. Palette of black line work with a highlighted amber step four and a muted grey question mark on a pale 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.
