scared kiddos

Recently, I've been trying to participate in the Bi-weekly Challenge (I say "try" because this is my first, official, complete piece). I was excited to do the Grimm's Fairy Tale challenge. We just had to create a piece based on one of the stories.

I based my piece on "The Water Nix" (quick read here). I liked the idea of drawing terrified children. A "Nix" is basically a sprite. That creeping dark thing in the upper left corner is the Nix.

This is my first complete vector illustration in a long time. The last time I made one was back when I was a student at Miami Ad School. Adobe Illustrator and I haven't had the long relationship that Photoshop and I have had, so any and all work in the program is a great learning experience!

I think my favorite thing about working in Illustrator is the ease of replicating elements. For example, I created the boy's body, and then just copied and pasted it for the girl.

Here are some preliminary sketches.