Intense Shading

Despite probably being the more complicated design of the three, I chose layout 1 having fall transition into winter in the background with a full body image of "Geraldine".

The brief specifically stated that the author wanted a realistic mouse, similar to the style of
Beatrix Potter. I wanted to try create very realistic looking fur and chose to use an old technique I taught myself a long time ago, using a block base colour to fill the image and then one tone dark and one tone lighter to add shadow and highlights. Using a brush on low opacity meant I could add the different tones in gradually building up the different layers.