started knowing I’ll just be doing spot illus so i wasn’t too concerned about the complexity. focused on composition here. initially i liked how flowy it was, but fumbled with the form.. i think the cabinet structure kind of lessened the strength of the shape. probably should have made it smaller/tighter with a rounder general shape/impression so the overall image looks more compact. i also wanted to add more details/things on the shelves but the item size needed to be bigger bc the shelf proportion was drawn kind of big.. maybe i should have put more items in rows/repeating.
referenced the color scheme from this official work. i wanted something bright but not too dark or saturated. overall i liked how the colors turned out and the hue jitter brush settings on procreate made color picking easier.
changing the lineart color was a bit of a hassle because I accidentally started the it on the wrong layer so i had to use a different layer setting to change it. that made it darker than i preferred and i wasnt sure how to toggle it lighter. just more post processing but i think overall the colors came out nice. I’d like to do more pieces with this kind of bright color scheme in the future.
anyway, go read the cute fic if you haven’t already
this took way longer than i initially planned. the moral is, when in doubt/stuck/whatever go back to references and fundamentals. the first draft was fine, but it looked boring even just from the sketch. pretty sure it would have been tedious to render fully.
went back to my poser app and laid out the general idea i wanted to pull off. pushed the perspective and drew over the general layout. kept the file with the grid in to help with the background later on. after the layout was finalized, it was all just a matter of lineart + coloring. arguably the sweets were fun but tough to draw. i think some of the perspective might still be off but they do look mostly good. procreate’s hue jitter brush setting really helps me a lot when i color, especially when i paint. i think i prefer single layer painting more on procreate with this setting on because any brush i use gets that painterly feel when the setting is turned on.
overall this was fun to color, pretty happy with how it turned out but if i could, i’d still tweak a few things here and there.
(i also lightly based this off an actual cafe in okinawa. they’re @caracalla.okinawa on instagram. their pastries are colorful cute and their location has that refreshing by the beach look i wanted to capture.)
hehehehe it’s a very very special day today (for me at least i’m on down under time) for a very very special and wonderful friend
i hope you enjoy companion piece to the GORGEOUS birthday fic @neutronstarchild wrote for @fawn-eyed-girl, I had an absolute blast painting Mr Kaoru CherryBlossom as a genie emerging fresh from a lamp
HAPPY BIRTHDAY FAWNIE!! i love you to tears,, you deserve the world <3 <3 <3
@clementinesgulag he is utterly and completely perfect! (Like WOW I did not know I needed Genie Kaoru in my life and my dear you and @neutronstarchild have DELIVERED and cannot stop looking at him or reading this story) THANK YOU for this wonderful gift – I love you, so freaking much
