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The Forest Queen
The full journey of one piece — an ink study of a crowned girl with her bird-topped staff, the finished painting she became, and the final animation.
Every finished piece starts as a few honest pencil lines. This page follows real work from the sketchbook, through paint and color, all the way to animation.
Graphite, ink, and blue pencil. Character, gesture, and story are decided here — proportions, props, and personality, before any color exists.
The drawing earns its color — watercolor, gouache, acrylic, or digital paint. Palette and light turn a study into a world.
Selected pieces are brought to life with subtle motion for picture-book trailers and editorial work — wind, water, wings.
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The full journey of one piece — an ink study of a crowned girl with her bird-topped staff, the finished painting she became, and the final animation.
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One character, three lives — a digital concept, a painted hillside, and finally a hand-built, illuminated shadow-box diorama.
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A digital character study grows into a pair of paintings in a pink lavender forest.
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The same hand-carved linocut block, pulled in two different states — how printmaking decisions change a sacred image.
Stage three
The final stage — finished scenes animated with subtle, hand-tuned motion.
Commissions and children's book projects follow this exact process — you'll see every stage.
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