Ok guys, whoever is reading this - I really need a honest opinion about this piece. You see, a few of months ago I started following this cartoonist course that is being issued by the Italian school for Disney artists, it's nothing too serious or fancy, I mean, it's something you can buy every two weeks at the news stand, but at the same time it is also extremely detailed and well written and it features a lot of tips and techniques which I'm finding very helpful. I just want to know if it is somehow showing. I'm not sure if there's a real improvement and I'd really value somebody else's opinion.

Before Christmas I fell in love with Stephen Sondheim's masterwork Into the Woods and I started a series of characters from the musical as an exercise with this new, "trained" approach. What you see here is the first one I did more or less 3 months ago, the Childless Baker. I didn't put much work into the backgroud for two reasons: 1. my main concern is the character design and 2. I'm planning to do some more elaborate compositions with entire groups of characters as soon as I get the others done. So this is some sort of sneak peak from the bigger project I'm pursuing - so keep in mind that the background and the general composition of the picture are temporary!