We were tasked with two tonal studies – one of a prop and one of an environment, both sourced from the worlds we are currently working on.

My prop tonal study was of a drinks bottle with Mickey Mouse ears that would have been sold at everywhere in the Disney world. Notice the camera embedded in the bottle cap.

I used a reference to complete this study, and I think it turned out well. I especially like the shine on the right side of the bottle.

The environmental study was harder, as backgrounds are not my usual forté.

I depicted a broken metal Mickey head floating in a flooded part of the park. I tried to add some light bouncing off the waves and on to the shadowed part of the head, but I don’t think it shows as good as it should. The moon is a clear light source, and it lights up the scene well.