MONKEYCHOW

Elephants are one of my many favorite animals, and my 2 year old daughter loves them as well.

It’s funny when she sees one. She screams out “elephant”, then proceeds to make the noise. She doesn’t say the “l” in elephant either. It sounds more like “e’ephant”, but that’s what makes it cute.

Here’s an elephant’s face I did in Illustrator, for my daughter. It was fun building the brush for the dashed line used in the shading. Made shading much easier by way of the pencil tool, and custom brush added a bit of texture to the illo. I may just print it out, and buy a ready made frame, to hang in her room.

I recently updated an old illustration and posted a before and after to compare the old illo against the new updated version. Although the updated illo was still a work in progress.

Since then I’ve finished the updated version. I like how it turned out. It’s much cleaner with bolder colors, but kept its slimplicity. I could’ve easily gone crazy adding all sorts of colors, and elements, but why? Just because? The whole point of the original was to do something simple. Although I may add some subtle shading here and there in a future version, but that may be it.

In this version I left out the shading, since I wanted more of a line drawing feel.

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Makeovers are a popular thing now adays. People get their looks made over, their wardrobes, even their homes.

Although, the concept isn’t new for me as an illustrator. I’ll go through my computer and clean house from time to time. Sometimes I’ll come across an old illo that I like, but feel it can be updated (made over).

This is one of those occasions. I found this young woman I illustrated a few years ago. Still liked the concept, but I felt that the final outcome could be improved.

So last night I began working on this woman (I haven’t named her). A lift here, change the line there, new color here—and so far it’s still a work in progress. Only because I have other responsibilities and obligations.

For now I will post the work in progress, just for the hell of it. I’ll even do a before and after so you can see the difference between both concepts.

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