Wednesday 25 February 2009

Illustration Friday: Instinct

For this week's Illustration Friday, I decided to come up with a very simple idea and take my time doing it. Having said that, this was produced surprisingly quickly and the result is the above image. There are a few issues I couldn't work out, and may revisit this in the weeks ahead to correct some of those issues. I suspect this is the most photo-realistic piece I've done to date.

And before anyone mentions Little Red Riding Hood - believe it or not I was halfway through drawing this before it even occured to me that the theme was similar. When I realised this I changed the girl's hoody from grey to red as a last minute acknowledgement.

7 comments:

Kris-Tea said...

I love the background, the tone is very (how i can say it in english....The dictionary say: environmental, but i dont think so, lol) Very mysterious image!

MrBibleHead said...

Very well done Jim. I think the girl and her expression are very good, but that background.... EXCELLENT!

kathy hare said...

I along with Vanessa also did a little red riding hood image! it's funny isn't it! wonderful work her expression is great..

Bella Sinclair said...

Oh, Jim! This is wonderful! I love the depth of this piece. The forest is eerie. My kids were looking over my shoulder, and they kept talking about how scary your wolves are. Great illo!

flower girl said...

Hi!Fist thank you so very much for visiting my blog and your very nice comment my friend. and your illustration is very wonderful and I love her expression.She is so charming ;)

Kim said...

Great work! When I say the thumbnail I almost thought it was a sculpture. The three dimensional quality is great and I love the mood.

Lifer said...

(i wanna say, that irrelevant to the theme, i really like the trees... i keep looking at the naked trees around toronto these days and want to draw them)

she looks scared!!!!
or hopeful?:D