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Instagram post: Pencil casting a rocket-ship shadow

A flat powder-blue paper background under soft directional light, where a real yellow HB pencil stands at an angle and casts a crisp blue-grey shadow shaped like a rocket blasting off with a cloud of smoke. White and blue hand-drawn doodles of stars, a paper plane with a looping dashed trail, a cloud and a pink heart are scattered around it. The pencil-to-rocket shadow illusion is the main idea, and the clean studio photography mixed with childlike doodles gives it a warm, simple feel.

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