Creative day

Had a moment yesterday where I was feeling down about my work - especially one of my current projects.  But after a very inspiring and creative class this morning (my classmates are so talented and awesome ^_^) I went home and did some personal illustrations.

So first, cameo-shaped inspired octopus tentacle! (I need to draw more octopi, it's been too long)

Second, got around to illustrating the christmas card I'm going to send out this year.  Really excited about this!

Stitched up Chinese Zodiac

I'm getting a calendar made at Black's, and wanted to do something quick and illustrative instead of photographs.  So I made these chinese zodiac designs up.  The plan was to overlay a texture and be done - but I wasn't happy with just that.  So I played around with them and came up with a "Kirby's Epic Yarn"-ish patch-y look.  In the compilation below, I just pulled them off of their individual calendar pages, so the colours are a little unorganised when put all together but they make sense on their own.

Below are some examples of the calendar pages, and a close up of a few of my favourites.

Cheetah roughs

Sorry for the lack of updates, got sick for a week and then was super busy the next so I've fallen behind a bit.  As I catch up this week, here are my roughs for the cheetah illustrations. The cheetah will get it's pattern during the digital painting phase ;)