Or perhaps: “Winter Vacation”.

When I read the prompt, I remember the scene from Bram Stoker’s “Dracula” where Count Dracula shipped himself to London while he’s sleeping inside a trunk (?) filled with soil from his homeland. It’s pretty weird of me for remembering it, because I’m terrible with horror stories (I’m a scaredy cat.)

I wanted to make a more light-hearted version, thanks to “What We Do in the Shadows” and Leslie Nielsen’s “Dracula: Dead and Loving It”, so I made Count Dracula prepared for his winter vacation.

I just realized my lineart is thinner than usual, though. Oh well, it has been a pretty busy day as I had my weekend shifts today. I’m still happy with this one, though.

Not sure if “hermit crab” included in shell family, but I hope it is ? The girl in the drawing is actually my daughter. When looking for ideas, I remembered when we were in a family vacation in Langkawi. She crouched near a hermit crab, obviously interested, while the poor hermit crab tried to hide from her.

As much as I like this drawing, I feel something is seriously “off” from this drawing. I actually suspect my palette-creating ability. For this drawing, I created my own palette in Procreate, and it seems like I didn’t consider color value and hue, hence the weird coloring. It feels out of place and not coherent with the whole mood. An opportunity for me to learn more!

Officially using Procreate! ?

You can find the differences with the previous works — especially on brushes. Also, the color palette. Procreate has color palette feature and it’s super pretty! I’m yet to explore the other palettes (and I’m hoping I can create one too!) so I’m excited!

You can see I changed my mind on the initial coloring as I tried to get better feelings on the brushes then some more brushes swatches. You can also noticed I changed the position of the hat, because my goal is for folks to recognize the model is a cat. If the ears are covered, we can’t pinpoint what animal it is.

Brushes: Dry Ink (outline), Tinder Box (coloring,) and Oberon (coloring for wider area (sky))

Palette: Campfire