My initial idea was to create a geometric style, simple and original, specially for the characters, but I finally chose to draw them in a style I was already used to, influenced by the Japanese comic. Between the several existing styles in this type of comic I decided to use the so-called “shonen”, appearing in comic-books for boys, instead of the “shojo” comic-book style, aimed at girls, in which designs are more stylized and exaggerated. Thus, Beauty doesn’t have big eyes nor a thin constitution, but a rounded face and real-size eyes. Regarding the Beast, he’s got a strong constitution that makes him different from shojo’s usually slender and thin male characters.

I did some drawings by hand then scanned and painted them in Photoshop, and others were directly created in Photoshop by using a digital tablet.

These are the designs of the main characters:



















Beauty and the Beast, proportions



























And these are the secondary characters, Beauty's father and sisters.