For the past several years I have been working on pet portrait commissions. These portraits are whimsical, sometimes moving, and all based upon what the owner shares with me about their animal.
I usually read what the owner writes about their pet before I look at the photos then share with me. I think that this allows my illustrator brain to kick in and develop that first impression of how to communicate “super lazy” or “total freak about tennis balls”. As soon as I look at the picture of the animal I tend to laugh as my gut feeling of how to show who they are collides with what they look like.
I think my greatest creative influences for these pieces would be the lingering impression of the great Warner Brothers cartoons of the 40’s-50’s that instilled a love of slapstick and exaggerated expression and the great kids “how to draw” books by Ed Emberly that taught me that shape is everything.
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