Andi Pasti's Animal Art

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. ...

Last year I drew a Centrosaurus with ink and grey markers on brown-toned paper. I’ve bought that paper two years ago and never used it properly, but I figured out that it’s quite handy. With a mid-toned paper you only need to care about shadows and highlights because the mid-tone is already provided by the paper itself. On white background you have to establish this mid-tone yourself. I decide to use this paper block to fill it with dinosaurs drawn in that style. Centrosaurus Over the past year I tried to fill the pages with some species that I like, not the usual ones that get much media attention. Dilophosaurus - without the frill and spitting poison  Therizinosaurus Technically I discovered some challenges which tampered with my joy: * I use some black fine liners from Faber-Castell, 0.1-0.3 mm for the outlines or black shadows. These are fine! * for whites I use a gel pen, probably low quality, as the ink gets stuck from moment to moment and is not flowing constantly and reliab...