Eel Out of Bento

Ruby: "Yang, let's play!"
Yang: !!!#$@#%!!!
Weiss: "NOT THE EEEEL"
Blake: I knew this was going to happen.

Even if they're trained (like Kei and Sasame) to cook, it's never a good idea to let them work in the kitchen unsupervised - especially when one of them is a (technically) feral hyper-active kitten-nuko.
Ye be warned.


Process:  Eel Out of Bento - ProcessOriginal ink and pencil sketch on engineering paper (hence the yellow). (~1 hour, mainly for planning and brainstorming)

3D model of the environment in SketchUp Make. (~5 minutes)

Pencil and pen re-draw on top of the 3D model printout, taking perspective and proportions into account. (~1 hour)

Tracing the new sketch using my Surface Pro 3 as a lightbox (turned off the touch screen). No ruler used, all freehand. (~2 hours)

Final ink line art scanned at extremely high DPI. Mistakes are few and are edited digitally.

Base coloring using masks. (~2 hours)

Final lighting, details, and touchup. (~2 hours)