penchills

How to create and develop characters in an environment I was working on a project which needed me to create character interactions in an environment. It was about a family of rabbits. Mrs. Rabbit was tired of Mr. Rabbit always asking her to cook carrots. This picture was meant to show Mrs. Rabbit's helpless condition when Mr. Rabbit carries home a fresh box of carrots. Mrs. Rabbit does not want to eat anymore carrots. For this, I first created a rough sketch of a house, and the rabbits. Mr. Rabbit is trying to avoid an awkward conversation with Mrs. Rabbit. I included a box of carrots in the foreground. The kitchen has some utensils, an old fashioned oven, some firewood and a sink. Poor bunnies have a small house, so the kitchen also has a couple of chairs. I usually write notes in a different layer while drawing the rough sketch, so if you find some notes, please ignore. When I was fairly satisfied with what I had drawn, I made a line art layer on top to make the...

This is another version of the bunny (Mr. Rabbit in one of the previous posts). In this version he has a pair of binoculars. May be he is trying to spy on somebody!!! I am going to share the whole process starting with creating a line art (we do this after drawing a lot of rough lines), adding colours, shades and highlights. Here is how that goes...