Heeey!!! Here’s a big hug for you, welcome back! With 4th day’s Magical Girl I had a revelation: The fun part about taking these challenges is to take them without overthinking. They can bring you lots of concepts and combination you would normally ignore if you were working inside your comfort zone. This allow us to exercise creativity and avoiding making the same things over and over.
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The proposed theme for 4th day is Moon and I love to humanize animals so I got inspiration from a butterfly called Actias Luna. They’re nocturnal and you can find them in the Neartic zone (Thanks a lot, Wikipedia ❤).
Lista del reto creado por Mariana Real en Instagram
Ahora bien, vamos con el proceso de la ilustración:
Now let’s start with the illustration’s process:
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Sketched using both Paper Mate H pencil and black ultrafine marker
Coloring using various markers (Solita, Stabilo Boss, Sharpie and Prismacolor Premier) and silver shimmery pen.
Made the background using a fine black Sharpie Marker.
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Y así ha quedado esta pequeña voladora
And here’s our little flying cutie
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I really liked the making of this Magical Girl to try some stuff, I’ve always avoided to make black backgrounds since I fear the rest of the drawing does not highlight. I also tried some color combination because I like to make some contrast without using complementary colors but still getting a balanced color palette. I also included a tiny linework for adding some volume because I like the texture it gives to illustrations and other experiment I’m into is to adopt background making since they make the illustrations look way more different.
What do you thing about this challenge? Do you like to try new stuff when someone propose a theme? Tell me about it in the comments, I’m sure you have lots of useful things to share.
Remember you can see the making of my illustrations on real time through my Instagram So there you have an open door to get closer whenever you like. Byeee!!!