Aesthetic

This is a scan from a comic that I own. I really like the sepia tone as it make the highlights really stand out, I also like the use of random textures ie. the leaves. I'm planning on using this image as a basis for my character aesthetic obviously it may need to be simplified as I will have to do it to 1000's of frames. But definatly take the muted colour pallet, the sepia tone and use of patten/textures.

I have been playing around with brown paper for a while now, these three sketches I did drew using pencil, chalk and charcol and the middle one has some water colour pencil too.

I have to confess I did copy the middle one from an oil painting by Audrey Kawazaki.

This picture below by David Revoy uses the same method of drawing onto darker toned paper to make the highlights really stand out. He has created so much depth and texture and made the picture look as if it appeared from the paper, especially by making the grass blank paper.

I love this tonal sketch done in blue pencil (found on google images), it has so much depth and i really like how visible the pencil marks are. Even the where the paper has been left blank adds to the image.

I toying with the idea of using water colour, maybe for both my characters and backgrounds, though not sure whether I would do this in digitaly or by hand. Below is a quick painting I did a while back, just to get back into using water colour. I do like the quality of the colour but not the inked line as it makes it too static.

I much prefere the use of watercolour in the painting below, an image I just stumbled apon on google. It is softer and more fluid. This also has a similar colour pallet to the one I think I will use for my film.