Andi Pasti's Animal Art

I haven’t posted about my latest progress on working on my comic yet. The good news is: I finally settled on a title! Yeah! It will be called Woolly Wonderful . Woolly will also be the name of the main character, that is one that a child would give its toys, not too complicated and overloaded and quite obvious based on its appearance. Here is Woolly and one of the comic pages: Sample comic page. Copyright: Andreas Adam I have pencilled, inked and coloured 11 out of 16 pages. Although I am sure I have to tweak some of these pages a bit still. I also rearranged the layouts of the last 3 pages last summer and did more pencilling. I condensed the story and brought elements meant for issue 2 into the current issue, which created a more interesting ending and brings the story forward. Some of the last pages need still to be inked as well. Which leads me to think again about my workflow for the next issue. Using pencils and ink pens helped me to refine the final outlines, but is quite time in...

I recently finished a longer project that I started as part of a Domestika course. The style of that particular course gathered my interest, because it reminded me of older illustrations in animal books or natural history books. As tools only a ballpoint pen was used, except from sketching in pencil. That meant all the textures were done with a huge and varying amount of strokes. The course teaches you how to achieve different textures. And also, don’t be afraid to make mistakes, they will happen. This is the resulting image: The animal of choice This is the Resplendent Quetzal , one of the 6 subspecies of Quetzal. They all live in the area of Middle and South America, in higher altitudes that feature foggy rain forests.  I chose this bird because of its sheer beauty. It was featured on a foreword page in one of the best animal books I had as a child (it featured 2000 vertebrates) and kept it long into my adulthood until the binding fell apart, so it left a huge impression on me. ...