I wanted to explore my Monkey-Cat-Creature, the Tamanian a bit closer. So this scene is of a sleeping Tamanian in its natural habitat. If you would like to read a bit more about the creature itself, you can check my earlier post with all my thoughts and research.
For This Illustration, I didn’t use black. I never tried this before, but it was such an interesting experiment! I put a lot into the composition and colours and I think it really helped me improve.
If you would like to see my process, keep on scrolling!
Here are the Thumbnails I did and some of the photo references I used. I usually picked different elements from the different photos.
Here is the Linework for the Thumbnail I decided on.
Moving on with a rough Value study.
My digital colour key before I went on to the traditional painting.
And here some progress shots of the traditional Artwork.
