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Commissioned by  backlash
Zak is having a tough time navigating the un-plowed pathways of a local park standing between him an an on-time arrival at school. Those canvas shoes he's wearing can't be helping--they've already come off his feet, so they must be soaking wet by now (and that being before they came off). Now he's going to need someplace to sit down to put the errant shoe back on, and everything in sight is buried in snow. Closest thing to a seat is a nearby boulder, so he hops over and attempts to clean it off.

Technical:
The most technical part of this page (and the others in this installment) is coloring the snow. Your mind tells you it's white. But if you want to do shading and highlighting, then that snow has to be mostly something other] than white. Then there was all those trees. I elected to depict them as having most of the snow blown off them. The sky I sort-of cheated with. Since it's the middle of winter, I surmised that another line of snow-producing cloud cover was moving in, resulting in the foreboding snowy forest blending into the sky behind Zak. A further touch is making the distant trees appear to be "in the mist" by making them progressively lighter the farther away they were.

Pencil on bristol, inked and colored with Krita 3.1.3 and text added to logo with Micrografx Pictuyre Publisher 10, six layers, 23MB at original size (Krita .KRA format)

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