Avalon Castle

A while back, I created a lantern for the lantern festival in Victoria, BC. That year, my friends and I decided to do a fairy theme, complete with accompanying costumes. But since I was the one who got everyone involved in the festival, they left the design of the lantern to me. The one condition was that it had to be a castle to house the fairies. I researched many designs of castles, but found that all of them were not organic enough to suit a fairy realm. While watching an anime series, I became inspired by one of the building in the background. Combing the look of that building with elements of a flower, I came up with the lantern's design. The lantern was easy to construct, by using a couple of 2 litres, small pop bottles and cardboard for the structure, and the petals were cut from scraps of organza fabric. The whole thing was lit with LED lights.

As for the drawing above, I drew out the lines on paper, scanned it in, then proceeded to colour it in Photoshop (since I wanted the glow and varied colours that I can't achieve by using pencil crayons). Of course, I simplified the design of the castle just for the drawing.