Ogrod the Gnome makes nettle tea for a faerie.

I love an art challenge so I was so excited when @artstationhq issued the #OnceUponaTimeJam #ArtStationJAM challenge!
This is an orinigal set of characters, the gnome (Ogrod Garnek who is usually an unfriendly hermit) makes nettle tea for the fairie each morning before parting ways to attend to thier daily business.

upon printing the image it looked faded so increased the vibrancy, hopefully I didn't over do it.

I changed the fearies dress to white to give her better contrast against all the green grass, I also added glow bugs to give her a secondary light source and add pop to her.

bumping up saturation , contrast and details.

I wanted the lighting and colour pallet to look like early morning sunrise.

I also decided to shrink the faerie down and flip the canvas.

my original comp had a downward view of the characters, I felt it would better illustrate the dfference in size if i brought the viewer down to the ground in line with faerie. this gives an upward view of the gnome.

whist detailing the gnome I decided I wasn't entirely happy with the perspective and size of the characters.

I start in greyscale placing the characters on opposite sides of a large upturned mushroom.