Cozy Winter Lantern Festival Illustration

A richly detailed, whimsical storybook illustration of a cozy village preparing for [a glowing paper lantern festival] on a winter night, in the style of a hand-painted children's picture book with gouache and colored-pencil textures. Setting & Atmosphere: Deep navy night sky filled with glowing circular stars and tiny snow speckles. Pale icy-blue snow on the ground, framed by dense decorative shrubs and tall coral, teal, blue, orange, and yellow stylized trees. Warm yellow-orange light glows from cottage windows and paper lanterns, contrasting with cool midnight blues. Composition & Buildings: Wide 16:9 folk-art layout with flattened perspective. Exactly 5 warm wooden cottages with dark blue tiled roofs: 1 large cropped cottage on the far left, 1 small lit cottage left of center, 1 small cottage in the middle background, 1 cottage right of center with a round attic window, and 1 large cropped cottage on the far right adorned with garlands. Strings of triangular bunting in orange, blue, red, and yellow crisscross the sky. Key Props & Decor: A tall wooden pole or A-frame slightly left of center wrapped in golden garlands and topped with a red starburst ornament. Glowing paper lanterns in red, orange, yellow, and cream hanging and held by villagers. Exactly 3 wooden ladders (far left, center A-frame, and leaning against the right cottage). Exactly 1 central wooden worktable laden with lanterns and sprigs, 3 wooden crates nearby, 1 flower display stand mid-right, 2 large tubs with branches near the right cottage, and scattered woven baskets. Characters: Exactly 18 stylized villagers with childlike proportions, round rosy-cheeked faces, dot eyes, and winter garments in deep blue, red, green, orange, brown, and cream: 1 on the far-left ladder with a red lantern; 1 child by the central ladder holding an orange lantern; 2 left-foreground villagers exchanging a lantern; 1 teal-coated villager and 1 orange-haired child on the left path; 1 red-coated child in the lower-left; 2 villagers at the worktable assembling lanterns; 1 blue-coated woman carrying a lantern; 1 orange-coated man by the flower stand; 1 dark-blue vendor behind a small table; 2 distant villagers walking away on the right; 1 woman in an apron carrying branches; 1 green-coated child holding a basket; 1 orange-coated woman carrying foliage; 1 pointed dark-blue-hatted figure on the far right hanging garlands. Exactly 1 black cat resting near the central worktable. Style: Delicate linework, dense ornamental foliage, gentle lantern-light highlights on snow and faces, peaceful festive folk-art aesthetic. No photorealism, no modern elements, no text.