A yellow smiley face with a black outline and features is drawn on a 960 by 500 SVG canvas. The composition uses circles for the head and left eye, an ellipse for the right eye, and a thick line for the mouth. The SVG is defined directly in the HTML file, using inline elements like `<circle>`, `<ellipse>`, and `<line>` with explicit positioning and stroke attributes, and no external data or JavaScript libraries are referenced.