Soviet hand-drawn 2D animation still from the late 1970s, painterly gouache and watercolor backgrounds on textured paper, soft edges, almost no black outlines, muted palette of ochre, umber, grey-blue and warm white, gentle film grain, characters drawn simply with expressive silhouettes, no 3D rendering, no glossy surfaces. Close-up of the boy from the reference image looking straight at the viewer with quiet determination. Behind him, softly painted: an open book on one side, the sea with a warship on the other. Vertical 9:16, no text.
