Moebius was commissioned by Hermès in 2011 to create nine illustrations for a campaign called Voyage d’Hermès. This is one of those and like the eight others, no Hermès product appeared:
I sketched it on my 30×30 cm watercolor pad:
For the outline I used a 0.05 mm Uni-ball Pin pen:
Then I washed the paper and applied some yellow and a bit of orange:
I continued painting the figure and the bird, the skyline, and started with greens and blues for the wave:
Final version, 30×20 cm:
Gift ready and framed!
A couple days later, I tried a digital version of it which I finished on the same day, using Procreate on iPad Pro, 1878×1440 px:
Final result:
