Sleeping Beauty Among The Falling Leaves
Ochiba no naka ibara hime /
Beauté de sommeil Parmi les Chute des feuilles/
Sleeping Beauty Among the Falling Leaves
The title was Sleeping Beauty Among the Flowers of Spring. It was going to be set beneath a cherry blossom tree. However, that was back when I was working on this image for a release still in the spring of 2015. That was over a year and a half ago. The rate I've been going, I was afraid I'd end up circling back around to spring 2017 before I got this out. So, in working to finish it up, I changed the background theme a little and made it an autumn theme at the waning days of summer last year (2015). Still didn't finish in time for that, but had already committed to a fall scene, so I left it as that.
The image features Anzu and Rini Rosencraft, one of the few pieces I've ever done featuring the sisters I set at the start of the Book of the Shadows project years and years ago. If there was to be just one regret that I have in that fan-fiction, it is in not doing more to further the interaction as siblings between Anzu and Rini. I do craft what I think are a few really good moments that convey the sort of siblings they are. I just wish that, as the two that started this whole thing for me, I spent more time on them.
My other regret is not having more art pieces of the two, Rini in particular given that I do have a reasonable amount of work done for Anzu. My personal excuse is that before starting on the fan-fiction route, I had drawn a number of pictures of Rini, so there wasn't that personal urge to try to create more work of her. But those old pieces I did were long since lost or destroyed or whatever, so I don't currently have a lot.
As I said, this is one of the few that features the two of them together. There is one other I have of them together, but it was drawn on graph paper, which would require a little more work than average to get it to the point of being suitable to share.
Normally, when I have done the few pictures based around Anzu and Rini together, I tend to favor Dark Magician Girl's color scheme for them both. That's mainly due to the greater compliment of colors in her signature outfit relative to the more singular color palate for Black Lady's signature attire. Furthermore, because pink is present in both of their outfits, it only made sense to pair blue to Rini than subtract it from Anzu.
But this time I wanted to let Rini take a bit more of the spotlight. This plays well with the other mandate I placed on the color scheme being a relatively muted one. It's hard to argue muted in a color scheme where the two characters have pink hair, but with the pastoral sort of affect being the goal here for the overall image, a basic color palate was necessary. Limitation number three is that I wanted the sisters to be in similar clothes. I gave them both lengthy, flowing, dresses. But I differentiated the design slightly, adding a little more to Rini's dress with the frilly short-sleeved design. Unifying the whole theme with the same color dress made the most sense.
I always tend to have Anzu's hair color change back to pink when her and Rini are in an intimate setting with one another. The specific shade probably is a little closer to the shade used in the anime for Rini, which is lighter than I generally like to use. But it's a better fit with the overall color scheme of the image, so I don't think it's a bad choice.
Overall the grass was made a lighter green shade, my attempt to represent the fact that it is fall so there is some yellowing from less sunshine and rain. The leaves are a blended set of reds and yellows and greens, again representing that transitional image we all know of fall. The tree is a fairly healthy brown color. The temptation was to make it more ashen in color, but I wanted it to look very healthy to represent the reality that trees don't just go away in the fall and winter, and the imagery of a strong support behind them. This last part also plays into the clear blue sky behind them, again, bucking the general temptation of autumn-themed images to show darkening or dreary skies - it may be fall, and winter may be coming, but that doesn't mean everything ends, especially for these two.
Hope you enjoy this latest piece. Until next time.
Beauté de sommeil Parmi les Chute des feuilles/
Sleeping Beauty Among the Falling Leaves
The title was Sleeping Beauty Among the Flowers of Spring. It was going to be set beneath a cherry blossom tree. However, that was back when I was working on this image for a release still in the spring of 2015. That was over a year and a half ago. The rate I've been going, I was afraid I'd end up circling back around to spring 2017 before I got this out. So, in working to finish it up, I changed the background theme a little and made it an autumn theme at the waning days of summer last year (2015). Still didn't finish in time for that, but had already committed to a fall scene, so I left it as that.
The image features Anzu and Rini Rosencraft, one of the few pieces I've ever done featuring the sisters I set at the start of the Book of the Shadows project years and years ago. If there was to be just one regret that I have in that fan-fiction, it is in not doing more to further the interaction as siblings between Anzu and Rini. I do craft what I think are a few really good moments that convey the sort of siblings they are. I just wish that, as the two that started this whole thing for me, I spent more time on them.
My other regret is not having more art pieces of the two, Rini in particular given that I do have a reasonable amount of work done for Anzu. My personal excuse is that before starting on the fan-fiction route, I had drawn a number of pictures of Rini, so there wasn't that personal urge to try to create more work of her. But those old pieces I did were long since lost or destroyed or whatever, so I don't currently have a lot.
As I said, this is one of the few that features the two of them together. There is one other I have of them together, but it was drawn on graph paper, which would require a little more work than average to get it to the point of being suitable to share.
Normally, when I have done the few pictures based around Anzu and Rini together, I tend to favor Dark Magician Girl's color scheme for them both. That's mainly due to the greater compliment of colors in her signature outfit relative to the more singular color palate for Black Lady's signature attire. Furthermore, because pink is present in both of their outfits, it only made sense to pair blue to Rini than subtract it from Anzu.
But this time I wanted to let Rini take a bit more of the spotlight. This plays well with the other mandate I placed on the color scheme being a relatively muted one. It's hard to argue muted in a color scheme where the two characters have pink hair, but with the pastoral sort of affect being the goal here for the overall image, a basic color palate was necessary. Limitation number three is that I wanted the sisters to be in similar clothes. I gave them both lengthy, flowing, dresses. But I differentiated the design slightly, adding a little more to Rini's dress with the frilly short-sleeved design. Unifying the whole theme with the same color dress made the most sense.
I always tend to have Anzu's hair color change back to pink when her and Rini are in an intimate setting with one another. The specific shade probably is a little closer to the shade used in the anime for Rini, which is lighter than I generally like to use. But it's a better fit with the overall color scheme of the image, so I don't think it's a bad choice.
Overall the grass was made a lighter green shade, my attempt to represent the fact that it is fall so there is some yellowing from less sunshine and rain. The leaves are a blended set of reds and yellows and greens, again representing that transitional image we all know of fall. The tree is a fairly healthy brown color. The temptation was to make it more ashen in color, but I wanted it to look very healthy to represent the reality that trees don't just go away in the fall and winter, and the imagery of a strong support behind them. This last part also plays into the clear blue sky behind them, again, bucking the general temptation of autumn-themed images to show darkening or dreary skies - it may be fall, and winter may be coming, but that doesn't mean everything ends, especially for these two.
Hope you enjoy this latest piece. Until next time.
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