Thursday, October 29, 2009

Illustration Friday: Fast

Illustration Friday: Fast

Cheetah is the fastest land animal and the pronghorn antelope is the 2nd fastest.
I usually use Adobe Illustrator to do the basic shapes, but for this one, I decided to just use brushes direct in Photoshop.

This was inspired by the 1980s era Safari Cards. I used to get samples of these cards in the mail when I was a kid.













Here is my sketch:

11 comments:

Duncan said...

Love the retro feel to this, great textures.

Unknown said...

Love the texture and final composition

Natura said...

Love the textures too. Charming idea!

Art Fan Ako said...

Great texture and images!

sandygrafik said...

Nice vintage look and colors! Lovely characters and great composition.

justdoodleit said...

It's better for the antelope this way than have that cheetah run behind him :) Very nice stuff!

xenos said...

cool retro look you got here...

Michelle said...

love it!

eyecontact said...

Thanks for telling us how you worked. This is beautiful. Nice going!

Heather said...

I used to get those cards too! I must have hundreds of them stored away, totally forgot about them until I saw this - happy animally memories. Gorgeous textures btw.

Gavin Goo said...

Very cute illustration! And great stuff in your blog! :)