the magic of the amulet - progress part 3

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This is my next page to the story about little girl and her fiends. This page is a little introduction about who is who, so I decided to draw all characters playing together. I draw Abby, sitting on the beach, where we can see her legs. I did it in purpose because later on Abby with the power of magic will lose her human legs.


During drawing ,I  kept the first picture displayed on the left to check the colours and details.

I used bride colours and light reflection. Later on I draw Sun in top right corner and I knew that light would came from that side. 


Using different shades of yellow and  diferend kind of brushes helped me create sand on the beach.


I went back to the previous page to make some changes. I changed look of Olivia the dolphin and i removed the crab from the picture. As in the text is written that Olivia and Abby went swimming. I know how important it is for children because they always compering text with the illustrations.

If I changed Olivia on the second page I needed to change her on the very first page. I think now she looks more friendly and cute. On the bottom picture we can see how she looked before changes. Now She got the fin, finally! 


When I finished colouring I added the text. I checked carefully what size and font I used before. This is very important to be consequent in that. 


 

Comments

  1. Jurian Visser5 December 2021 at 07:20

    Some good process and improvements to your illustrations here. Well done! Looking forward to seeing your other illustrations.

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