Katsudon Cooking Storyboard

Goal: Create a monochrome cooking storyboard illustration showing the preparation and serving of a Japanese-style katsudon rice bowl, drawn like a detailed manga storyboard or recipe process sheet.

Canvas: Wide horizontal aspect ratio, about 2.4:1, white background, arranged as exactly 12 rectangular panels in a clean grid: 6 panels across the top row and 6 panels across the bottom row. Thin black borders separate every panel. No captions, no speech bubbles, no logos, no watermark.

Visual style: Highly detailed pencil sketch and light watercolor-wash look, mostly grayscale with subtle warm beige tones in the egg sauce and fried cutlet. Fine crosshatching, visible paper texture, realistic hand-drawn food textures, steam, highlights on oil and sauce, cinematic close-up framing in every panel.

Subject: A step-by-step cooking sequence for {argument name="dish name" default="katsudon"}, featuring sliced onion, breaded pork cutlet, simmering egg sauce, rice, and garnish. Use realistic adult hands when hands appear, cropped close to the food.

Panel layout and exact panel count: Show exactly 12 panels, ordered left to right, top row then bottom row:
1. Close-up of hands slicing a pale onion into thin crescent slices on a cutting board with a large kitchen knife.
2. Close-up of a breaded pork cutlet on a cutting board, held with tongs, covered in coarse crispy crumbs.
3. Close-up of the fried cutlet being cut into thick strips with a knife, fingers holding it steady.
4. Top-down close-up of clear liquid or broth being poured into a round metal pan, creating circular ripples.
5. Close-up of sliced onions simmering in bubbling broth in the pan, steam rising.
6. Close-up of the sliced cutlet being placed on top of the onions in the pan by hand.
7. Close-up of beaten egg mixture being poured over the cutlet and onions, creamy ribbons spreading through the pan.
8. Close-up of a metal lid covering the pan while steam surrounds the edges.
9. Close-up of a large bowl filled with fluffy white rice, rice grains clearly defined.
10. Close-up of the cooked cutlet, onion, and soft egg mixture being slid from the pan onto the rice bowl, strands of egg stretching.
11. Close-up of the finished bowl being sprinkled with thin dark seaweed strips and green garnish on top, steam rising.
12. Close-up serving shot of chopsticks lifting one saucy slice of cutlet with soft egg dripping, the rice bowl visible underneath.

Composition constraints: Keep each panel tightly framed and food-focused; maintain consistent lighting and hand-drawn pencil shading across all panels; make the sequence readable as a recipe storyboard; do not add text labels, numbers, extra panels, utensils not described, or colorful modern graphics.