Main character concepts.
Village huts.
Main character sculpts in Sculpey. I've been told to try Super Sculpey as it's suppose to be way better, hence the name...
I start an illustration with rough composition thumbnails(not posted) to establish the major shapes. These sketches become more and more focused till I feel confident enough to start the final illustration. In this case I worked traditionally with loads of tracing paper. I started by using red Prismacolor pencil. (You can see remanence of this in the scans) Then I traced over top with a mechanical pencil. The little "X" marks help me line up the different scans in Photoshop.
I may not like my first line work with one of the characters. So instead of erasing I simply remove that piece of tracing paper and replace it with a fresh one. Hence all the separate pieces.
Here are most of the characters scanned in and cleaned up.
Then I add in the BG, and some extra foreground elements.
BG to a second illustration.
