I am now in my 6th and final week of my internship now and I have realised I have not put anything up on here yet. I have done loads and learned loads so I think it is about time to show you what I've been up to!
I've been a cat lover for a long time. I even did a whole project based on them in my first year of university. I have access to three beautiful cats so I thought it would be a good idea to use them as a subject for some of my illustrations as I can easily take pictures and use them as reference.
I love to experiment with texture so I thought in order to combine my love for texture and cats, I was going to create a simple line drawing of one of the cats and use Adobe Photoshop to "fill" in the areas with texture. The textures I will be using will range from photographs or realistic textures to water colour and hand-drawn textures.
This is Gizmo and she is a princess.
She is the youngest of the three cats and by far the most mischievous. Here are some of the outcomes of my tests.
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| Initial line drawing template I scanned in and perfected in Adobe Photoshop to get the boldest black and white contrast possible. |
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| Brown crumpled parcel paper texture and water colour texture. |
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| Real fur and metal texture photographs and water colour texture. |
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| Water colour texture test |
I think the real fur texture works so well because the direction of the fur is fitting to the contours of the Gizmo's body. I also enjoy the slight abstract feel; although it has been technically constructed through real photographs or fur, the hairs themselves are a lot larger than what they would realistically be on a cat that size.
