Christmas Day at my family is wonderful, but also a little nutty. To keep myself and my husband sane I worked on a little illustration for a New Year’s Doodle Contest by Atelier Sento.
For the contest I had to do a 9cm x 9cm square drawing of Mizuka, the main charecter from their upcoming adventure game. I mentioned Atelier Sento previously after Dan and I brought their comic book which features the character Mizuka.
Anyway my idea was to try and capture Mizuka in a winter scene. At first I thought about placing her in a more British environment or landscape, this just seemed weird. So I had a little look at Atelier Sento’s work on Behance and found some water colour sketches of Japan, one in particular caught my eye and I used this as inspiration for the background.
Initial pencil sketch.
Me working on the illustration.
I then traced the image and began adding colour using Faber-Castell watercolour pencils.
The watercolour pencil layer.
The final stages were adding in some bolder colours using felt tip pens and some fine lines using black pen. It’s simple really but I hope the idea comes across effectively!
The finished illustration.