This weeks Illustration Friday topic was; Adrift.
My submission this week is representing the polar bears, and the people living in the arctic that will be among the first to feel the effects of global warming.
The melting of their natural habitat is a very pressing environmental concern.
You can read more about polar bears and global warming here:
Happy New year everyone!
This is the first illustration of 2010.
Entitled Cuddly Inside, it is meant to show that even dark spiky beings can have a soft center.
This illustration have been added to Redbubble, and from there you can buy it as a card, or print.
To see this and other works of mine for sale visit my red bubble site:
A while ago Jouni from DiveSpain came to me and asked if I could create an illustrated header or character for the DiveSpain website.
DiveSpain.net is a popular web community with interesting diving related content and an active member base. The illustration was to be an integrated element in the header to give the site a bit more personality.
Jouni sent me a very good brief for doing this job, with ideas he had, and mentions of what other diving sites are doing.
Based on Jounis brief I came up with some different options:
Initial sketches for the divespain header
Jouni decided to go for the cartoony diver, as this was the more personal solution and it illustrates something called the perfect position in diving language. This cartoony diver was also easy to use around the web, as an avatar for Divespain.
As I don’t have a lot of experience with diving I had to get some more pointers from Jouni, so the position, and airpipes etc. looked correct even if simplified.
And here is the Final version:
The final character design
The avatar version of the character
Visit Divespain here