Page Eight Finished Illustration

Finished page eight tonight.  This illustration was fairly easy to render, except for the fox because of his small size and amount of detail.  Overall it was quite fun to paint, probably one of the more detailed pages out of the bunch.  This illustration really represents a D&D party - Barbarian (tiger), Thief (fox), Knight/ Fighter (rabbit aka Maximus) and Wizard (Raccoon).  I am aware that I am missing a cleric, I considered adding a fifth party member but it felt too cramped on the page.  I will start on page nine this week after I finish lesson plans.  Still moving at a steady pace, I am learning more and more with each illustration I create.

Page Seven Finished Illustration

I finished page seven tonight.  Fairly simple composition but it still took a fair amount of time to paint mostly because of the amount of detail in the treasure.  Not much prismacolor in this one, only a little bit of texture in the fur.  There is quite a lot of opaques in the foreground, especially on the coins.  I had no issues with the rabbit after scanning the illustration but the yellows in the gold were way too dark and too saturated.  I had to shift it to yellow-orange to match my original better.  Scanning artwork is always a little bit of a hassle because I almost always have to create a digital version with correction layers that better match the colors in my original.