Animal Parade

I'm not sure exactly where I stand with the older drawings from high school and early college years. So instead of attempting to make a bigger mess out of an old mess, I'm skipping to the latest drawing and just uploading at random from there.

So this is the latest piece I did for the "Six Amigas." It was originally a design for my friend's birthday card, but the task just became too overwhelming and the project was scraped. I picked it up a few months later as a final project for my Intro to Illustration class. It was great to earn credit for drawing my friends, turning a hobby into something a little more worth while.

What made this piece interesting was how many times the animals changed for each girl. At one point I asked everyone what animal they would want to ride, which some how threw all my originals ideas upside-down and backwards. Everyone wants what I had designed another girl to ride and I felt torn between what I thought looked best and pleasing the ones I love. In the end, however, after a few test sketches, everything worked out, everyone got the animal they wanted and the design worked. The progress of making "Animal Parade" was a lot of fun and made me feel a bit more ready for my career as an illustrator.

Haley - Moose
Lara - Leopard
Gayle - Black Bear
Me - Galapagos Tortoise
Allison - Zebra
Shelley - Ostrich