This past Saturday, winter re-introduced itself to Michigan. As the snow piled-up outside the windows, I hunkered down over my table and (to the glorious sound of the radio broadcast of MSU's win over OSU) finished this piece, which will be in the May issue of a new children's magazine coming out next year.
WIP
Finished
This concept has changed a LOT since I was first asked to contribute to the magazine. My direction boiled down to: Spring, nature. Beyond that, I had a lot of freedom, which is always both exciting and paralyzing. Once I'd settled on what would become the final design (after pages and pages of sketches and tinkerings), it came together pretty quickly. I haven't done too much with forestscapes...I find them a bit intimidating. I'm pleased with this one in terms of detail (never sure how much to include in the forest), and differentiating between fore-, middle-, and background (normally a struggle for me).