First two images are inspired by surroundings, a train as seen from the train and the channel in the city of Carentan where we were staying. There was a little muskrat family that was swimming just a few feet next to where I was seated! (really cute little whiskers) Drawing in the evening while sitting outside, next to the water and surrounded by occassional animal sounds was super peaceful.

You see, working digitally is fun and all, but sometimes you need to feel, see and potentially, smell, the colors moving under your hands. I’ve slowly come to love them because they are jsut such a cool counterpart to clean drawing, the colors are so intense and when I look at my hands and desk afterwards, I know that I’ve done something. It’s a mess but worth it!

So I started to do panel redraws, where I selected panels from the manga „Trigun Maximum“ by Yasuhiro Nightow and redrew them with oil crayons and pastels. Since the comic is black and white, I can choose my colors how I like. Sizes are 54cm x 35cm.

Here are the super cool references: