Jungle

With this image I wanted to introduce a bit more of my taste for anime and japanese stylized productions, experimenting with more manga-ish faces, slightly more stylized proportions. How to combine that look with my painterly approach is a good challenge. Anyway I imagine these characters exploring a mysterious place, potentially discovering some magical place after defeating some inevitable weird monsters lurking in the fog.
I started playing with 3D a bit, and even with very basic modeling or sculpting skills it can help. For me it is always a two-edged sword as it is hard to break the nice light render 3d provides (even of a basic cube!) for the sake of design and expression.