Today I continue to show my vector illustrations — a month ago I started doing this with one of my last works, Walrus, and today I return back to my earlier works. I've come quite a long way from when I first started creating digital art to my current style, but still really like this vulture image, although it differs from the main series with animals: the drawing turned out to be very illustrative, as if for a book of fairy tales. I imagined some kind of fictional semi-fairy world, like those where Mowgli or the Lion King exist. And somewhere next to them a wise vulture sits on the rock...
I tried to draw a bird with many feathers. It was quite difficult — each line was drawn by hand separately, as the bird in the picture is not symmetrical due to the pose. I really enjoyed this process: I was sitting in front of a monitor screen, calm music was playing, and next to me was a cup of hot tea with lemon and ginger. Real relaxation, and at the same time active creative work.
This is what the original drawing looks like, before coloring. I work on a Wacom tablet in Adobe Illustrator.
Well, and this is a T-shirt — what it could be if this picture was printed on it. Free mockup from Ess Kay.
This post participates in the Qurator's Art Walk contest.
You can also see my photos in my blog LJ and in my profile on NatGeo. You can read a short interview with me here.
