Completed the new version of page 4, with a more dramatic angle to the roof, and a bigger moon for more “presence” (the page, and the story, are about the moon, not the building, after all). Â I used acrylic paint for the building and the moon, conte crayon for the clouds, and India ink for the sky. Â Here it is, the raw scan above, and with photoshop touchups below:
In Photoshop I darkened the black of the sky, then added more contrast in the roof, and lightened up the craters in the moon a bit. Â It ended up looking like this:
Here, by the way (below), is the earlier version of the page, for compare and contrast. An improvement, I’m pretty sure (though I kind of like the big cloud in the older version better than in the new. Â Oh well.)