Here goes another small collection from a big time digital illustrator. Umishima Senbon has a huge following on Twitter (yup, still Twitter to me) and is now in the business of proper artbooks publishing and professional illustration work, both in print and for anime; still, as it's now the norm for the sort of stuff you'll see in this blog, what really is of interest to me is their dōjin work -aka, their self published stuff that, in my opinion, often turns out to be a better display of the artist's inner workings and quirks.
So we wind back to 2021, with a small (24 pages), A4, mostly full color collection of illustrations themed around 'windows', in case the title didn't give it away. The format is one we're accustomed with by now: the illustration, usually a full page, is displayed side-by-side with development sketches, showing the process from a simple outline to the completed artwork. Sure, it's a blatant way to pad the page count, but it's also interesting to see not only the artist's own process, and compare it to others'. Umishima's style of line and coloring has, at times, a watercolor-like quality to it, eschewing the plastic sheen so typical of PIXIV-derived illustration: lines are rarely bold, and instead color contrast is used to fill out volumes and shapes. It reminded me a bit of Sahara Mizu's color stuff, personally.
Not a whole lot more to say, really. A nice, short collection from an illustrator that has clearly made it big. Stay tuned because, next time, I have some real strange work to introduce you...
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