my little art corner

Jun 25 2026

Edited spread 3

I got rid of one illustration here and moved it to the fourth spread instead

I did that yesterday but made more tweaks today. Which was changing Bunny's pose on the right and adding a few elements

It feels a lot simpler to what I had original planned

Yesterday's version:

I thought about adding clouds to the left but I didn't like how it looked. I haven't changed how I rendered things, but it felt off.

So I then tried using a blue background. Wasn't pleased. Lowering the opacity helped it slightly.

Thought instead of a blue background, I'd used sparkles again to match the right.

I'm still leaning towards none at all

For the right side, I added some sparkles. But I'm not sure which one I want to use.

But I also like having none at all:

As for using color balance, I've done that for every spread. But I don't know how I feel about it now. It's one of those spreads where I like the original colors more

But I feel like if I kept it that way, it would clash with the others

Sidenote: Maybe I've been staring at it for too long, but now I wonder if Bunny look okay on the right side

I don't know. Something is off. Maybe it's the proportions?

I've shown this to others, and they've said my pages are cute, so maybe it's just me.

Definitely going to animate this later on. But I layered the two verison together.

It feels more like Bunny is nuzzling into Sun's hand instead of having Sun giving her a head pat

I've been editing past illustrations lately.

I'm also in one of those headspaces where I'm not sure about my art. Feeling as if it's not enough. If anything I do is enough...

It feels strange looking back on everything once combined as a whole.

I know it's not complete. But I was hoping to feel some sense of pride viewing it all come together

Makes me feel sad for my past self.

Current me isn't appreciating all the hard work I put into this. Been about a month of slowly chipping this project away.

First picture book to ever self publish

That sounds exciting. It is exciting. I'm doing all of this all on my own. I should be proud

The actual story was written months prior. I drew several ideas for everything in between.

I even started writing other books.

This was meant to be a fun learning experience. Why am I being so hard on myself?

Anyways. I've been debating if I should add more or less to certain areas.

Spread 2 colors are still causing an issue for me

I changed the layout on 3. Removed the illustration and moved it over to spread 4 instead

It looks rather simple now. But that's why I like it. Lots of breathing room

I'll go more into depths about spread 3 in a different post. Writing helps organize my thoughts and it'll give something to look back on

Debating my color options

Colors changes the feel of the story afterall.

My coloring progress (using spread 1 as my guide):

1. Color everything using the four base colors I already picked

2. Duplicate and set the layer mode to multiply. Lowering the opacity to 50%

3. Duplicate the first layer again, but place it in front

Then using color balance, adjusting the HSL, or gradient maps (sometimes even all three) I'd change the settings until satisfied

I'd set it to overlay or soft light. Lowering the opacity I see fit

*This step might vary depending on how I want it to look

For spread one in this instance, all I did was use color balance:

And I loved how it look

It's just that I'm unsure how I feel about this process when I apply the same technique to others. Going through a lot of trials and errors

Down to the point where I'm even thinking of just using the original colors.

Sharing spreads 1 - 3 as an example:

And it's not bad. I do like it. The text later on will help fill out the empty spaces

Maybe I should only use the base colors like this? But it's just not how I had envisioned this to be. I don't know.

I'll work on this some more. I'll finish this eventually

I'm so happy how this turned out. Especially since I had my doubts on this page

I'll still need to make some edits to this but I'm still overall pleased

4 spreads left and then I'll be done

Original colors:

Close up of her hopping sequence just because I think she looks cute

Jun 17 2026

Debating if I wanted her eyes open not for the page I'm currently working on

Overlaying the two makes her blink so, why not record it?

Thought she looked cute

I'll edit it to make it look better later, since I'm planning on making a short animation based on the story

I drew a running/hopping sequence yesterday that will be a part of the spread:

Jun 15 2026

Been working on the castle this afternoon. Not sure how I feel about it now. Need to draw my bunny and I should be done with this spread.

I did have extra clouds surrounding the border. Debating if I should include them or not. Or maybe make them into different cloud shapes. I know I wanted stars

I'll work on it some more and see how I feel about things

But this castle reminds me of the cloud castle I had as a kid. Thought it was magical. It would light up too

Original colors:

Edit

Was able to find it on Google. It was Blue Box Toys collection. Tiny Dreams Crystal Castle. How cute

Jun 12 2026

Rambling to help clear my head + old art

Didn't finish spread 9 today like I had hope

But it's okay

I've been trying to find out why the colors for my other spreads look wrong when sending them over to my phone.

Learned a lot. I'll talk about it in a different post. Plus, despite learning what happened, I have yet to fix it. I wanted to add screenshots explaining the process. Serves as a good reference too, in case this ever happens again

Onto my bunny:

Cloud bunny turns into a thunder cloud when upset

I love her angry little face.

Definitely made an improvement. Especially when compared to an old version I drew about 2 months back:

Even back then, I wasn't proud of this. I remembered how my energy was really low but I still wanted to work. To draw it out at least

I am considering adding some lightning bolts similar to what I did here to the new piece. Because I feel like it's missing something. Oh, and adding some clouds in the distance seems like a good idea

A part of me is thinking about changing the whole layout of spread 9. I'm feeling the same way about 8. And mixed opinions on changing 3 and 5 as well. If I do change 5, I'll use what I already made as my cover.

My original plan for spread 9 was to have three small illustrations:

1. Bird blocking Cloud Bunny in the top left corner

2. Angry bunny (this drawing) on the bottom left

3. Bird talking and calming down our bunny that's sad, cheering her up on the right side

And all of these would be paired with their respective text

Like this:

But now I’m thinking I'd have my angry bunny as one full page. Since I feel like will look crowded once fully colored

Bunny would be on the one side of the lage while the text would be on the other. Which was my first idea when I messed up when drawing the sketches of spreads. Back then, I viewed one "spread" as one page by mistake. Ended up with double the amount of pages I was planning on drawing

But I feel like that would be repeating how 8 looks

Speaking of 8, I want to change the color I used when shading my Bunny.

New: shaded with a pale shade of blue

Old: used light gray

Heres what the old version looks like. I used a different textured brush at the time:

This was also back when I used the wrong spread size. I nead to clean up the feathers too

I really do like this spread, but I wonder if it's cohesive with the others I've done. I had this same issue when I first worked on this. Felt like my art was declining (especially my bunny), the more I worked on it

I want all spreads to have the same feeling that my new spread 1 has

I'll get there eventually

Spread 5

Pleased with how the colors look in this piece.

It was one of those trust the process moments. Loving the sketch but hating how I was rendering this

I messed around with different settings until I ended up at this point

This exact spread is the reason why I want to go back to and edit 3 and 4 since they look so dull in comparison

Nothing has beaten my love for spread 1 just yet though

Spread 7

Debating on changing the swirls. I did try a few different styles before settling with this one but Im still not a 100% satisfied

It's meant to represent the wind twirling around her. It goes along with the story

I didn't share spread 6 since I didn't finish it yet, but I like the negative space I have with this. It'll give the eyes some breathing room compared to how busy Spread 6 is

I like this page even more with text

Although, I am a little unsure of which colors I should go with.

It looks off on my phone too. I like viewing this page more on my PC.

Not sure what I did wrong when sending it over. I'd blame my phone's display screen but every other spread (or even my other artworks) looks completely fine

I'll try to figure it out later

Original Colors VS Edited Colors (using color balance and overlays):

She's cute though. Seeing her smiling face makes me happy. Feeling a little silly confessing that but today was a bad day so I want to focus on something nice

Here's what there original colors look like:

May 28 2026

Been a while since I last made a post

Redrew spread 1 for my children's book. Really liked how this came out. Definitely made an improvement compared to the others

Plus it gave me the chance to test out a different brush pack.

It feels nice to get back into this since work has been keeping me busy. I miss working on my own projects for a change

And I'm looking forward to being done with this and seeing the final project come all together

In the works of making a little activity book to go along with it too. Already started sketching out the pages.