Buzzbee's sticky or not-so-sticky situation – WIP

Valerie Light

@lizardillo This is awesome. You expressions and motion is great. Haven't you just gone from never before designing a character to nailing like 3 contests in a row? Looking forward to having you as a classmate in the cb pro class!

lizardillo

@Valerie-Light Thank you. I had never designed a human character, only not very stylised animals or birds. I can't draw people or faces. I had originally tried to make the character a boy or girl to try and force myself to create a stylised child, but one thing led to another it ended up as a bee! I think I'm destined never to draw humans.

This is Buzzbee's last adventure. He's retiring after this prompt.

Looking forward to CBP too, we're going to have fun. I still have no idea if children's books are for me but it's worth trying.

lizardillo

@K-Flagg thanks. I was originally trying to make it all about pre-event suspense, but hey, it's his last outing in the prompts so he can have some fun and go out with a bang!

lizardillo

After a few more rounds I've settle on this (give or take a few extra flowers, some size and positioning tweaks to try and make it read better and the foreground is a bit messy with too much stuff). I'm away at the weekend so I only have a few hours to do it between now and then. I messed about so much I've not left much time

Thanks everyone

lizardillo

The battle is going on in an idyllic english meadow a bit like the two hares in the top right pic (as we are encouraged to plant wildflowers in the UK to help the bees).

Sabrina Gosselin

Can I just say how I love that you shared your whole, and I mean, WHOLE process for this project? So awesome

brettb_draws

@lizardillo This is looking really nice so far! Besides the great character designs, I really love how clear your silhouettes are. I can already imagine how cool it's gonna look when it's coloured. Excited to see it when it's done !

lizardillo

Thank you all for all of the help this month. It’s truly appreciated. Here is the final. I’ve struggled a bit so it’s not quite how I wanted it in the end, I also lightened it a bit at the last minute and probably shouldn’t have. I’ve not done many full environments do this is a learning curve. Thanks once again.

I’m away in a campervan so hopefully this will upload from my phone.

Valerie Light

Your style is so cute and so consistent, @lizardillo . I like the way you're controlling value from foreground to background. You've done a great job of creating a narrative that builds as it moves back in space. Nice work!

ajillustrates

@lizardillo Dope to the nth-degree!

K.Flagg

@lizardillo I really love the way you use color. And I really hope if I make top 16 again that you are in the other bracket

lizardillo

Thanks all. This has been a tough one for me as I never draw backgrounds, it’s been a great learning exercise. My partner who is a physics teacher keeps telling me the mound of honey is too tall, it’s really annoying him (I know it is too tall but reality is boring ).

ajillustrates

@lizardillo My brain kept telling me the same thing about the honey, but I told it to shut up and enjoy the art