I’ve recently gotten into the Professor Layton series, and it’s games have been a constant source of inspiration! Engaging mysteries and challenging puzzles have been on my mind for a few months now thanks to them. I’ve done quite a few drawings for it by now, but I got an idea for another illustration around the game that introduced me to it all: Professor Layton and the Miracle Mask.
I had found out that the Japanese version of the game had an update that added extra cutscenes, and one in particular caught my eye.
A cute little scene of Layton (on the left) and his assistant Emmy (the right) dancing. I really liked it, and suddenly I had decided to do a screenshot redraw. I’d recently been experimenting with lineless artwork, and chose to go that route with this picture as well.
I started off with a very rough base sketch, just getting the poses down.
Next I got as clean of a sketch as I could of essentially the final picture. Since I’ll be doing lineless I need as clear direction and details as possible.
After the sketched was prepared I laid out all the base shapes and colors of Layton and Emmy to build the details on.
Next was was adding the faces and smaller details of the clothes and hands.
Here was where I started on the background, paying close attention to the screenshot reference.
Since the shading would be coming next I went ahead and added all the lighting details in the background.
Character shading, there wasn’t that much so it didn’t take too long
Character highlights.
After adding extra lighting details and an overlay, the picture is done!
I really love how this came out and so far it’s one of my best lineless works. Hope to keep experimenting and improving! Thank you for reading, and give the Professor Layton games a look! You might find yourself wrapped in a puzzle.