More zoo sketches

More sketches of Andre done a few weeks ago. This Sunday will be the last time I see him until next spring. On the upside, Zooz got their CAZA certification, so that's really great for them.

More Artwork!

This was a present for my dad for his 50th birthday; he's an avid birdwatcher, and there are the four of us kids running around. It's based off a reference pic that I took of the swallows that lived on my porch this summer, just a few days before they took off for good.

Watercolour, ink, and coloured pencil on cold-press illustration board.

Simba - finished

The finished piece. This is Simba, a lion that lives at Zooz. His mane is absolutely ridiculous - it goes all the way to his back legs, he's like the epitomy of a lion. Seriously, it's crazy.

Anyway this is watercolour, and I barely touched the background at all from the last update, it's mostly work on him.



And just in case you hadn't seen anything cute yet today, here's a picture of Simba I took today with his newest offspring - the cub is less than two weeks old. Enjoy :)

Before...

Thought I'd give you all a sneak peak at my latest piece before I start on the brushwork. Up until this point, all the work that has been done has been paint that has been poured - which requires an maddening amount of masking fluid. But the end result is something that looks like this. Now the trick is to not butcher it adding in too much detail and losing all the colour gradiations in the shadows.

So, anyway, before the detail work...

More sketches

Another decent day of sketching. Drawing big cats lying down is always an exercise in forshortening, they just have to throw their legs all over the place.

More sketches from the zoo

Got very damp, but got some good drawing done yesterday. Also Noah tried to eat my pants. Greedy bastard.

One of those days were I didn't get a good page but every page had something good on it, which is something I guess. Enjoy :)

older sketches

Did a little bit of drawing this weekend but nothing turned out great so here's something from a couple months ago I did that I didn't upload yet.