A face shape is drawn as a cyan path with a distinctive "e" cutout, rendered in an SVG viewBox. The example demonstrates how to construct and animate a custom path using D3.js version 5 within a React framework. The code uses `select` to target the SVG element and appends the path with a predefined `d` attribute string, showing static vector rendering rather than interactive animation. The HTML page loads D3 from a CDN and applies styles to remove margins and hide overflow.