Jun 21, 2021
Sometimes you flip through old sketchbooks and find some gems! Pheasant practice for a commission a couple years back.
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Sometimes you flip through old sketchbooks and find some gems! Pheasant practice for a commission a couple years back.
The first step to making my interpretive panel is creating a rough drawing and layout. This is version 1, and I already have a list of changes to make. I’ve found the design aspect of my work to be just as fun (and just as important) as the illustration side. Back to the drawing board!
Happy to call my interpretive panel finished! I chose to focus on Ficuses and a selection of Amazon species that rely on them for food, as well as a shoutout to the special relationship fig wasps have with these trees. Fig trees are such interesting and important parts of rainforest ecosystems, and I enjoyed learning more about them.
Design was also a huge part of this project, almost more so than the actual paintings. But after lots of fiddling, nudging, resizing, and realigning, I think I arrived at a design I’m happy with!
A preview of what’s next...
