Anime Witch Riding A Broomstick At Night

A young witch sits side saddle on a broomstick and sails from left to right across a night sky. Her wide brimmed pointed hat has a band around the crown and a tip that curls forward, and her hair streams out behind her in long ribbons that reach almost to the edge of the page. The dress falls in soft folds over her legs, gathered at the hem with a ruffle, and small ankle boots hang below it.

The broom is drawn in full: a long shaft, a binding wrap where the bristles are gathered, and a wide fan of straw spreading out behind. Her hands grip the shaft near the front.

What makes this sheet worth the time is the sky. Dozens of stars are drawn as open outlines rather than solid points, so each one can take its own tone, and a full moon sits in the upper right corner waiting for a pale wash. Scrolled flourishes fill all four corners and a bank of rolled clouds runs along the bottom edge.

A deep indigo laid flat between the stars will turn the whole page into night in one pass, and leaving the stars and moon uncolored against it gives the strongest contrast of anything on this sheet.