By the end I ended up making the setting darker, since I really wanted the umbrellas to stand out. Besides this the final touches include: - Gaussian blur t...

Start using texture brushes to make it look less digital and flat. Here are close-up comparisons:

I started by definining the background a bit more. Knowing that these buildings would be hardly visible in the final image, I only painted a single building,...

Now with all the characters in the painting, I started worrying more about the shading and lighting part of things, After having picked the colors, and addi...

This time I'm coloring on top of the gray-ish tones from before, I'm still having hardships with picking colors, but it's going a lot smoother than before. I...

In the back of my mind I had this idea of the umbrellas casting light on the characters, not for any meaningful way, I just thought it would look cool and mo...

After the previous rough sketch, I cleaned up the main characters but also some of the background characters. I made sure these characters were varied but al...

The human girl and the monkey seems rather lonely for something being inclusive. Now in Photoshop, still with these two character in focus, I added more peo...

The three previously mentioned elements didn't feel like enough to make a full composition, so I decided to add an umbrella to it. This element would make t...

The first things that came to mind with 5G were the connection between human and nature, and interaction between them. At first I had 3 elements in mind: -...