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, flat lighting with soft atmospheric haze, characters drawn simply with expressive silhouettes, no 3D rendering, no glossy surfaces. A dirt road leaves a small wooden house and splits in two: the left path leads to a quiet building with warm windows and books, the right path goes down to the sea where sailing ships and a steam warship stand on the horizon under an evening sky. The boy from the reference image stands at the fork with his back to the camera, looking toward the sea. Wide shot, golden evening haze, vertical 9:16, no text.
