ShowDown

This is for the EquineXchange over in LJ land, one of the many little art exchanges I've joined in the past.

I've become a little disillusioned in my own art and kind of frustrated with it so I have decided to go back to how I prefer to do art, which is traditional media. I think this is my strong area and I had a lot of promise in it a long time ago. Then I wanted to get more into illustrating and I think in the long run my art has suffered for it. So I'm going back to traditional media.

I tried some different things with these ibex/equine type characters, I drew them on two seperate pages and then merged them together. You can kind of tell where they are merged at, but I think individually they work well.

I took this in photoshop and played around with it, subtly putting color into it, but I think I like it better unaltered.

And I am working on backgrounds. The background is a little ho-hum, but I didn't want to detract from the focus, which are the two creatures here.

Pencil - 2008
Ibex / Equine breed belongs to Kessrapteryx