I went back to (mostly) analogue animating for this one. The character is drawn with a calligraphy pen and the background cycle is made of charcoal drawings. All was composited in Opentoonz and digitally colored in Krita.

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The ice is a series of five charcoal drawings looping on two layers and blended together:

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Here is a little video showing the various phases in the workflow: