Yukata in Autumn

A personal piece reminded me of some of the gardens I saw in Tokyo a while back- had a lot of roaming cats that seemed to own the place.

Acrylic on canvas.

Girls referenced from Yukata Style catalogue.

But wait there's more... colour!

Ice Festival version 2.0

My editor commented that the skin was indeed too orange! So here is another version with a more realistic palette and possibly it works better tonally too. As always with colour: less is more... more or less. Something like that anyway.

Feeding in the colour

Ice Festival

The last image in this series of sketches for my Children's Portfolio. I'm just beginning to feed in the colour with this one. I wanted the purple to harmonise with the blue that I did previously as the two images will probably be seen as a spread.

The yellow/orange was then chosen to vibrate off that- it's too saturated to be a realistic skin tone, but for the sake of a stylised illustration I'm hoping it works =).

Addit: I printed this out today and I'm a little bit chuffed to see it in hard copy- it semed to come out ok I think!