New Finished Gretel painting

The old Gretel painting

A few semesters ago, I touched up my Gretel painting to try to catch it up to the Hansel painting I had done. Now that I’ve redone my Hansel painting again, I realized Gretel really didn’t match him in style or skill. After tinkering around with it for a few minutes, I realized that perhaps starting over and repainting the entire thing would be faster than trying to fix my old painting to get it up to snuff. And so I did! Here’s my progress of the repaint:

First off, I decided to make Gretel a blonde to contrast Hansel, especially since they’re so similar in design as it is. This version was just an in-progress sketch, but I already knew that I needed to stylize her a bit more if I wanted to make her match Hansel.

The painting in progress got some feedback about her expression needing to be more defined. She didn’t look determined enough. I also thought that her clothes didn’t look good enough, so I decided to wipe out my old stripe-shirt design, and research what actual hockey shirts looked like.

I needed to decide on the shirt’s logo, and how I would render it. Did I want to go more realistic or stylized? I ended up choosing stylized to stick with the rest of what my project already looked like. I also got some feedback on the leg construction– although one leg was bent, it was about the same length as the other leg! I also had a few other things to fix up: wrinkles, reflected light, etc.

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This sketch of Hansel makes me happy. I’m glad my roommate humors me enough to pose for silly drawings like this.

Snippet of WIP… “RAWR!” says Candysaurus!

Candysaurus confronting the Gummy Pig in the Bubblegum and Taffy Jungle!

A layout that is riding the line of digital painting. I have color comps for the final painting in the works. It’s one of the interiors for my thesis.