Appeared in: Official PlayStation Magazine, January 2007
Tools used: Adobe Illustrator
There’s more after the jump!
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Perhaps due to the success of the Kids Round Up column, OPM asked me if I had the pleasure of doing a different illustration each month to accompany the column. “Hells yeah,” I said. I’ve grown more confident of my Illustrator skills and I’m beginning to really use the program quite regularly. Unfortunately, OPM got canned after this issue came out. It was a sad day at Gamer Land.
Even though my first Kids Round Up illustration was very basic with primal shapes and gradients, I really like that unobtrusive and personable style. I kept my coloring technique but I decided to add in elements of a brush in attempt to bring out a more fuzzy feeling…as if there was a real artist’s hand behind it. The title notes a “round up” so the idea of having a collection of little animals seems logical to me but this doesn’t necessarily mean they should all look the same. I assigned a different personality to each bear (like how I did with the bunnies in the first Kids Round Up illustration) so that they’re cute… but without that gross saccharine after taste.
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August 22, 2007 at 10:35 pm
RV
best teal/yellow bear illo eva!!!
February 22, 2008 at 6:57 pm
Omar Shelly
This is the happiest little illustration that ive ever seen! I had to cut it out of the magazine and hang it up in my room. Really presh!