Little Astronaut and a Cardboard Rocket

A children's book illustration of a small child in a homemade cardboard space helmet sitting inside a rocket built from a stacked cardboard box with a cone of taped paper on top, in the corner of a bedroom at night, a bedside lamp casting a warm cone of light while the rest of the room falls into soft blue shadow, hand-drawn paper constellations taped to the wall behind, a toy dog buckled into the passenger seat wearing a scarf, crayon dials drawn on the inside of the box, soft gouache texture with warm and cool colour contrast, no text, no letters Art direction controls: soft directional studio light, a centered hero composition with deliberate negative space, quiet and editorial.