The secret of the forest

Hello again! After many days (I should say evening) of work and despite the busy period at work, the first panel of the theater project is finally done. Here is the WIP and the completed drawing. Enjoy!

                 

 

I should add that the fox and crow are a homage to Pit's great grandma and her famous rendition of the ages old tale of "Le corbeau et le renard". When my husband and his sister, Pit's mom, were children, she used to tell the story to put them to sleep. Things did not really go as she expected. She would start the tale in french "Maître Corbeau, sur un arbre perché, Tenait en son bec un fromage..." and then she would promptly fall asleep with great merryment of her audience. It's a sweet family memory that we all want to share with little Pit...and here is my contribution. ^^

A theater for Pit

My sister in law is preparing a little theater for her son, my nephew and the sweetest child in the world...(love you Pit!). She has proposed a collaboration where I'll be in charge of designing panels for the gates of the theater, curtains, and other decorations.

On the left, you can see  the preliminary design (she chose the second possible arrangement):

I've started working on the the drawing for the first panel. It's a classical forest scene with three little siblings encountering a dryad in a clearing. There is still a lot of work to do I don't know how much you'll be able to see in these pictures, but I thought I'd show you. I tried to bring the picture alive with lots of detail that might attract a child attention and excite his/her imagination. As for the story behind the characters, it's still very undetermined...maybe I'll think about it, or maybe Pit will come up with it one day...;)

Hopefully, soon I'll finish inking this...