Behind the Ivory's

I just played Professor Layton and the Curious Village. I couldn't stop. Now I need the diabolical box.

Anyway, at present I've gotten kinda tired of drawing focused mostly on the people, and am really really more interested in settings, interesting environments. All the ideas I've had lately that I like are mostly about the setting. Also, I don't want to keep drawing only just pretty, pointy people, and Prof. Layton gave me lots of inspiration for folks with double chins, big noses, wrinkles, all that good stuff!

This setting was inspired by a picture in the house of a music teacher I used to work for, but it turned out quite different from that. This is more warm dusty late afternoon sunlight; that was more fresh air late morning sunlight. I might try again sometime to get something with the latter feel.

I experimented with laying down ink washes in yellow, red-brown, and periwinkle blue all over first, and then markers over that.

The title is reference to a piano-including puzzle from another game, which ~PallidaPapillio pointed out.

Characters copyright Level 5,
picture copyright me.