Step 2 — The Rest Of The Squad

the prompt

A character lineup sheet of a football team in modern Japanese hot-blooded sports anime style, 2D hand-drawn cel animation, clean dark lineart, two-tone cel shading, realistic adult male facial proportions, detailed iris highlights. Landscape composition: 5 Norwegian national team players standing in one horizontal row, all facing the camera in natural standing poses, arms relaxed or lightly on hips, evenly spaced, no group-photo posing, all feet on the same ground line. Background is a light-grey model-sheet base with horizontal height-scale lines, accurately showing each player's height difference. Team kit: red jersey with a navy-and-white diagonal cross pattern, white shorts, royal-blue socks.

Each player wears a small chest number matching his shorts. Left to right: ① No.1 goalkeeper, dark green keeper kit with black gloves, 1.92m, short golden-brown hair and light stubble; ② No.9 striker, the tallest at 1.95m, long blond hair pulled back into a low bun, cold Nordic face, broad-shouldered and long-legged (the protagonist from the reference image); ③ No.21 young winger, 1.77m, short blond hair, fresh boyish face; ④ No.19 second striker, 1.95m, tall and heavily built, short dark-blond hair with full stubble; ⑤ No.15 small winger, 1.74m, Black teenager with short dark curly hair.

Every face, hairstyle, skin tone and body type clearly distinct at a glance. Clean character model sheet, even lighting, no VFX, no text or watermark. Not photorealistic, not CGI, not 3D render.