Tuesday, 20 March 2012

Happy Splashing


Zebra | Personal Work

The zebra is a beast that had been on my hit list for a long time.  This guy's been painted in acrylic on illustration board.  The painted area is only 5.1/8" in diameter (just a tiny bit bigger than it is displayed here).  The initial sketch I went with was even smaller.  I have it available as a 4.5"x6" greeting card and a small print, and will look into making buttons and coasters and other round things with it too.  I like the cheerfulness of the image, to me this zebra looks happy and refreshed.  I thought the water turned out pretty cool too.

Zebra | Painting on Board | Pencil Sketch

Something else I like about this little guy is that he reminds me of my parent's dog Mac. One of the happiest creatures on four legs, and my little brother.

2 comments:

Spoontraveler said...

Your insane, I can literally si hi lights and shadows from every muscle on that Zebra! The snout look a little bit big to me, like he could bight me whole head off! good call on the layering effect for the water, did u add the water reflection/gradation on the Zebra afterwords?

Alex said...

All acrylic! and yeah, his proportions are a little cartoony :P kinda what I liked about the sketch.