Figuring out the whole view of Chinese town is helping me a lots to do the visual package of this story. I drew the map which is on the top first, and then start to give me the mood of how the story going to development. After I did the most of Chinese buildings and then I decided to put the old lady's house far away from the center of the town that is located in the center of the drawing, and then there is a big tree beside the house, to give some isolated and lonely feel to the character. Also to create the focal point for this character's house.

This is done by gouache. I picked some thumbnails from the previous thumbnails I did. Using gouache is very fun, I love the traditional way to do the works, and it feels more like real artist do.

Old lady's hose environment design for the monster story is kind of fun. I was thinking every details that how an old Chinese woman lives in the house will look like. My friend, Shui pie is a very smart girl, and she gave me some inputs of my story. She suggested me that old lady making the chinese little buns for living. What a good concept! so I started to do the research and the old lady's house has more character and history.

There are two main characters in the monster story. One is a very smart monk, he saved the village by using clever way without hurting anyone and prevent monster coming to the village the ends of every year. Another character is the old lady who lost her son that eaten by the monster.

The monster of year is the folktale from ancient China. The story is about the reason why Chinese people set the fireworks up and place the red papers in front of their house during the Chinese new year holidays. The top one is the thumbnails from the scenes and the bottom one is the rough concept design of the monster.

Environment Design for cooking battle game