Animal Illustrations!

:) For my illustration class, our final project was a self directed assignment..

My choice was to illustrate an imaginary kid's book I've always hoped to write since I got my animals! Sort of showing off the cool/cute side of the critters that so many people are so afraid of! I think that all of creation is beautiful and awesome, and they all have unique talents. So the theme is sort of a wild circus, with the animals as the talented performers showing off their natural abilities(and being cute!)

I chose my own pets because, hey, they are awesome :D and my babies!

I also sort of went with circus because I had drawn a circus picture before and my teacher just loved how I drew it and wanted me to do that feeling again. But anyway


I did two "Spot" illustrations(just a figure, not a full page, where words would be around the image) and one full page illustration.

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This would be early on in the book, with the little girl first getting a look at the scary "Monsters"!

http://a3.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphot..._3273708_n.jpg

Awww and they aren't so scary! This is sweet Bella all dressed up for her big show! :D

http://a5.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphot..._7685707_n.jpg

And Nagini is looking gorgeous! I love how her pattern came out, this was pretty difficult to make it look like her pattern(ish) while keeping it in the simple style




I tried to make it LOOK like a kids book, and tried to keep simple shapes and have it rendered in a simple way..I really like how it came out, though I would like to go back and spend more time on it... And maybe someday finish it with the rest of my animals!

Just awesome! You are very talented.

:D Thank you very much!! Now lets just hope the people I try to get illustration jobs from will say the same thing! Maybe if I can finish this book and add this to my portfolio it will help get me somewhere :)

I would love a book like that for my son. He's great around reptiles but his little friends- not so much. That would be a great way to share the experience and make others more comfortable. :gj:
Here's to hoping you get published!:)

Keep up the good work! I love it :) I used to draw so much growing up. I'm pretty good but I haven't practiced in years. I'm trying to get my Wacom tablet up and going and a freeware Photoshop type software so I can get back into it digitally. This is definitely some motivation.

Regards,

B

You art work is amazing. If you do finish the book I would buy it so I could look at the pretty pictures. :)

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Originally Posted by Simple Man

Keep up the good work! I love it :) I used to draw so much growing up. I'm pretty good but I haven't practiced in years. I'm trying to get my Wacom tablet up and going and a freeware Photoshop type software so I can get back into it digitally. This is definitely some motivation.

Regards,

B

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Paint.Net is free and pretty Photoshop like.

Thats awesome !!! I think you have a great project and it will be amazing when you finish! I will definitely buy the book if you finish.

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Originally Posted by Kinra

You art work is amazing. If you do finish the book I would buy it so I could look at the pretty pictures. :)



Paint.Net is free and pretty Photoshop like.

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I just installed it today :) I haven't had a chance to check it out yet. I liked GIMP but it refused to work with my Wacom.

Regards,

B

I love those! Can I use the one of Nagini? It's so cute!

Very cool! I can see you being very successful as an artist. It is a hard profession to make a living at but you are very talented and won't have a problem. Great photos too. :)

Those are lovely!!

I bet you could easily take commissions for such portraits of people's pets if you wished. :D

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Originally Posted by MissDizzyBee

Those are lovely!!

I bet you could easily take commissions for such portraits of people's pets if you wished. :D

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I agree! Look at Candace Owings with Custom Creatures. She is really taking off with her business of sculpting clay reptiles. She can barely keep up with her orders.

I bet you can do the same with illustrations of people's pets :D

Awww thanks so much everyone!! You guys rock! :D


Umm, about using this drawing, I dunno, I'm trying to stop letting people use my art for free, just because I'm now trying to make a living off of it! This piece in particular since I might end up doing something with it...In the future I'll be happy to do commissions, and since I work digitally I wouldn't charge much at all, more just for my time and (very) slowly fixing the dent the adobe suite/cintiq tablet/new computer made in my wallet! :O


This is going to be one of my summer projects, so maybe I'll post some more! One of my next pictures will be my normal ball python! I think the people here will like that! :D