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Experimental Rhino Illustrations
from my Sheridan College days. |
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Scratch Board
"The Dealer" |
Acrylic
"Pop Rhino" |
Resist
"The Edge" |
Ink
"White Rhino" |
Ink/Digital
"Rage" |
Resist
"Moutain Rhino" |
Collage
"Ox Pecker" |
Collage
"Queen" |
Resist
"The Slope" |
More School Experiments
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Baby White Rhino
Homemade Scratch Board, acrylic over wax base
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The Juggler
Homemade Scratch Board,
ink over guache base |
Rhino Wnated Poster
magazine collage
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Rhinos Doing the Tango
This illustration was prompted by Illustration Friday's word of the week: TANGO. Considered doing a couple caricatures for the movie "Tango and Cash" but didn't love any of the photos I found. Couldn't think of anything else clever so dancers was it.
Plus, it seemed like another good excuse to draw rhinos. Why not?
My favorite part are their horns. The female, getting the shorter, curved horn was a natural decision and it kind of acts like a continuation of the arch of her back (rhinos aren't that flexible).The male, on the other hand, was kind of forced to look that way since I drew him way tooo close to the edge of the page. His ears are laid back because that's the only way I could squeak them in and his horn stretches way out for the same reason. But it all worked out in the end. His expression is perfect and I love the way his horn mimics / frames the females extended leg.
I think, had I had enought room, his horn would have gone almost straight up and that would have looked weird with a tall spindly spike towering over the rest of the weighty composition. |
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Seeds of Inspiration - A Self-Promotion Piece
I drew a package of flower seeds with a black rhino in full bloom and a baby rhino just beginning to bud. I think it's a terrific idea for a self promotion piece. I'm sure it wold be easy enough to get this printed and turned into actual seed envelopes. I wonder what kind of seeds an art director would appreciate getting in the mail. As long as they don't expect to grow rhinos...! It would be a tactile, visual, olfactory, auditory... sensual experience. Memorable. |
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White Rhino - You Smell Nice
This illustration was prompted by Illustration Friday's word of the week: WIDE.
The Afrikaans word "weit", meaning “wide” is a reference to the shape of its mouth. The broad flat upper lip is ideal for pulling up mouthfuls of low-growing grass. Kind of like a cow. This African herbavor is an endangered species.
Black rhinos are also gray but they have pointy lips designed for picking leaves out of bushes.
That funky texture on the rhino hide and back ground you see is a result of a few hours I spent one afternoon, running around photographing natural textures. The textures that come with photoshop are too obvious that they are repeating patterns so I wanted to create my own. I now have a little unique library of stone, wood, lichens, rust, chipping paint... that I can go to any time. Digital cameras rock!
The name "white rhino" is actually a miss-nomenclature. Rhinos are gray. |
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Rhinoceros Goulie
So I was just sketching this White Rhino when my husband looked
over and said," What the heck is that supposed to be?!"
From his perspective all he saw was this nasty goulie with a missing eye and warty lip. That's funny. Give a sketch a spin!
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Evolution of a Logo
The first two images o the left were cut paper experiments were a single piece of paper (circle and square) had a design cut out of them and then the pieces that were cut out were flipped horizontal and pasted in the same position. I suppose you wouldn't have to flip the pieces of the circle. Then it would just be a negetive. But that was the assignment.
The other logos I created after graduation. I LOVE the RI one but it needs to have text accompany it or you don't know what it's for. Maybe someday I'll be as big as Nike and it won't matter.
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Composition
Experiment
This series of illustrations demonstrate assorted compostions:
random, centered, diagonal, assymetrical... They were inpired partly by the classic children's poem "Sing a Song of Six Pence" but mostly by the Wilbur Smith novel "Elephant Song". Only I substituted elephants with rhinos which makes more sence when you get to the end.
Use the slider to view the complete poem.
sing a song of six pence
a pocket full of rye
four and twenty blackbirds
baked in a pie
when the pie was opened
the birds began to sing
now wasn't that a dainty dish
to set before the king
the king was in the counting house
counting out his money
the queen was in the parlor
eating bread and honey
the maid was in the garden
hanging out the clothes
along came a blackbird
and snipped off her nose |
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Christmas 2008 (above) - Holiday Rhino Under the Kissing Ball
Christmas 2007 (below) - Christmas Rhino, Graphite & Watercolour |
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Got some pretty good milage out of this image.
The original assignment was to creat a digital illustration in Photoshop that used a sketch as a plan rather than be the supposrting image.
I liked the original sketch better and it's shown up over and over as my website and company image has evolved.
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Wink, Wink. Nudge, Nudge.
Know what I mean?
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Sgt. Andy Sipowicz from the TV series "NYPD Blue"
Acrylic, conte and coloured pencil.
What if Dennis Franz was a rhinoceros? |
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