Third concept of Akane, but chronologically in her story it should have been the second.
I experimented with a wider and more dramatic perspective but keeping the main scene visible and understandable. I also played with lighting and saturation to give the feeling of a dense forest during spring. So there's lots of warm light penetrating through the tall pine trees.
I also added for the first time outfits of one of the group of characters that I have been developing on the side, these are yet to be uploaded among other outfit designs.
Something I wanted to say, in the personal side, it's that this new concept is not the first one for said scene. I revisited the old ones I did in 2016 for University, and it's one of these case that as an artist you're happy to see a massive improvement. To be said, it's not perfect and likely if I repeated this almost ten years later, it would look much more improved. But it's always nice to be self-critique with ourselves and not only see the mistakes, but the improvements.
Process' video