Wheat with a Heavy Crown

Finished editorial cut-paper collage illustration with expressive hand-drawn marker finishing, 4:5 portrait. One wheat stalk rises from the bottom-right edge and curves left beneath a comically oversized golden ear in the upper half. The ear has two staggered rows of broad, plump ochre kernels and a few long, simple awns that keep it unmistakably wheat. Tiny stem, one narrow folded leaf, exaggerated asymmetric silhouette. Build the wheat from overlapping matte paper shapes with slightly irregular cut edges; add loose dark-brown marker contours and broad mustard strokes, not intricate hatching. Flat pale rain-gray paper background, diffuse daylight suggested by faint soft shadows between layers. Quietly enchanted, playful, clear at thumbnail size. Leave generous empty space along the left and around the stalk. Restrained ochre, mustard, brown and cool gray palette. No people, no text, no logos or watermarks.