Animal Alphabet
M is for Meerkat!
From animal alphabet project. Traditional background and digitally painted Meerkat. I used gouache to paint the sandy and grass habitat. I wanted to work on combining my digital tools with my traditional work.
P is for Panther!
Known for their dark fur and night time hunting I was this piece to be dynamic and have the animal creep close to the viewer. I spent a long time trying to figure out how to render such black fur and keep the feel of the traditional background
X is for Xerus Squirrel!
The Xerus squirrel is a very tiny creature. For each animal It was a challenge to try to show the right amount of detail and also scale the animal correctly. I wanted the background to be warm and cosy. Also painted with gouache and the squirrel was added with Procreate.
H is for Horse!
While most of my other animals are kept still I wanted this one to be jumping right out of the page. I let the background feel less realist for this one and let the gouache layer in an interesting ways for the clouds.