Andi Pasti's Animal Art

For a long time I wanted to learn how to draw animals, but since there are so many different groups coming with different forms, it was challenging to pin down what animal actually  to draw when you have your sketchbook and pencil in front of you. So I decided to pick an animal for each letter of the alphabet and post the sketches on each day of December leading up to and going over till the end of Christmas. The alphabet has 26 letters, no kidding, which falls perfectly in place with the end of Christmas on the 26th. My own animal advent calendar. For me, and also for you. Starting with … A for Axolotl The Axolotl is a extraordinary amphibian, home to only a few lakes in Mexico. This narrow distribution makes them a critically  endangered animal, and although a lot of individuals are held in aquariums and zoos all over the world, their numbers in their natural habitat are shrinking.  They undergo different stages of development like frogs, but they will stay in their juv...

To bridge the gap between the published first issue of Woolly Wonderful and creating an engaging story, I used the time to draw some sort of concept that I imagined for a second issue. I tried a slightly different process this time, to find out if I could save some time in the comic page creation. Finished piece Usually after the pencil stage, the inking will be done, either over very detailed pencils or rougher pencils, depending on the artist’s confidence. But ink will not give you any variance in tone like pencils can give you. Thus, some artists only have a pencil stage and darken the pencils afterwards to make them more stand-out. Any thin or weaker lines will still be visible with a still lighter tone and might give it a bit of a rougher finish to it. This indeed can help to make the art appear less digital.  Main character pencils Pencils complete Pencils with shadow layer The picture in general has more of a children’s book feeling about it, especially through the lighter b...