The little donut’s journey

Date : April 11, 2022
Chocolate donut with face, arms and legs looking at wonder at the sprinkles, stars, fruit, hearts, chocolate chips swirling above its head.

I’ve been taking the MATs bootcamp courses for years now. (MATs is what kickstarted me into filling up my sketchbooks and experimenting with analog and digital art materials over the last 7 years) This year there’s a different twist. We are making character designs based on an excerpt of a story provided by our instructor and art director Zoe Tucker, and then imagining the characters in a toy concept provided by our other instructor, Riley Wilkinson.

So far, I have gravitated towards working on the characters more. Above is our donut friend Coco Moloko! Worried and scared at first of what’s to come, she nervously lines up with the other donuts. On the other side, she finds herself in a magical land of sprinkles, rainbows and sweet pink icing. These drawings are created with Hobein Acryla Gouache. I water down the paint and use it like watercolour but this brand of paint is quite vibrant still even if it’s watered down. After painting, I go with pencil crayon to add more details. After I scan the drawing into the. computer, clean up the file, and add more details using Procreate and Photoshop.


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