Illustration Friday - Wide

"mmm... You Smell Nice!"
Medium: graphite and digital colour.
You see that funky texture on the rhino hide and back ground? I spent a few hours one afternoon running around photographing textures. You see them used all over in graphic design. The "tiles" that come with photoshop are frequently 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.
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. This African herbavor is an endangered species.
Black rhinos are also gray but they have pointy lips designed for picking leaves out of bushes.


Original Art © RhinoInk Illustrations Ltd