African Fairytale

Amidst a herd of wild zebras out on the African plains, a large book magically appears and falls open revealing black and white images of a few of the country's fierce predators. They leap hungrily from the images coming to life in vibrant color and begin chasing after the zebras causing a wild panic.


Real life collaboration with incredibly talented and sweetheart *WildSpiritWolf!

The idea behind this picture is to bring a blend of artistic surrealism and magic along with some slight realism into the realm of animals. The predators are stylized illustrations that jumped out from a children's book (you might notice a gradient effect from grayscale to color on them!) into a not-quite-real world of zebras that began losing their stripes in their panic, which then formed into ink blotches!

We had great fun blending our two different styles into one awesome picture. This art was supposed to be sold at Eurofurence (since it was African themed) but since it was my first time on EF I didn't register early enough to get it into the Artshow. X__X

Anyway.
I came with up with the concept idea, WildSpirit did the hunters and book, and I did zebras and background blotches.

- A3 Strathmore Bristol
- Black Indian Ink
- Prismacolor pencils (predators and book) and Polychromos (zebras)
- lineart: Micron and Faber-Castell pen.


THE ORIGINAL PAINTING IS FOR SALE ON AUCTION!!
Check here: [link]