On this page the following entries were made in the “April, 2007” time-frame.
Archive for “April, 2007”
Pirate Parrot
This was a fun Illustration for Kim Hazel of her pet Blue Crown Conure as a pirate. This piece went through a lot of process to get to this point. Despite (and perhaps because of!) all the extra work, I’m really happy with the result. I love playing around with color in a piece and the conure gave me a lot of opportunity to do so. I also enjoy messing with subtle things like shadows– elements that might not be noticeable right away, but that add to the story behind the illustration.
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Spontaneously Bald Eagle
This is a commissioned piece, and probably one of the more unusual illustrations I’ve done. The most challenging part of this illustration was making the foreground eagle mostly in shadow, but still looking like his head was -white- and not grey. I actually fudged it the first time, and ended up reprinting the lineart, carefully cutting out that one bird, and gluing him down over the first one. It’s not really noticeable in the scan, but in the actual piece, it has a neat slightly-dimensional effect.
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