Besides the difficulty of illustrating them so you can actually tell which animal it is, the hardest part for me was assigning a personality representative of the animal. I could slap a baseball jersey on every one of them and be done with it, but that felt like it didn’t really capture the individual qualities of each animal.

Laid-back Jasper

The Big Lady Dahlia

High-strung Romeo base jumping

Beethoven, the little resident hoodlum

While the app make the illustration process pretty quick, not to mention the convenience of always having it with me, it still takes 3-4 days per illustration to get them to where I would consider them done, and in the end I ran out of time. These four were printed and framed, and even though it was less impressive than, say, all of them being done at once, the two step process may save my sanity. As I get the other portraits completed they’ll be posted.

I’m much better with a digital pencil than I am with a digital paintbrush:

I think I can get the hang of this.

Sketchbook Pro has some nice pre-designed paintbrushes that helped make the background a little more interesting, so that was nice.

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