A yellow circle with a black outline and two smaller black circles forms the start of a smiley face. The example uses raw SVG elements with the `circle` API, plotting a large face circle and two eye circles at fixed coordinates within an 960x500 canvas. The face is centered at (480, 250) with a radius of 245, while the eyes are positioned at (350, 180) and (600, 180) with a radius of 50. The rendering is static, with no interaction or animation, and the code is embedded directly in the HTML file.