We’re continuing to improve the backgrounds for our visual novel!

In our previous post about backgrounds, we showed you how they are created. This time, we’ll take you through the process of drawing the Esther location.

It all begins with a stage you’re already familiar with - deciding what goes where:

Next, we fill the shelves and cabinets with suspicious jars and mysterious treatises.

Finally, we carefully render the shadows and highlights cast by the candlelight.

By the way, last time we showed you the daytime version of the city, but it also has a nighttime version!

And the village has a ruined version as well: