We’ve always really liked the poster art of the Art Nouveau movement, esp. Alphons Mucha’s work. This was one first Art Nouveau hedgehog poster art, designed to look like a work by Mucha.
Art Nouveau line art. We redrew line art from an old public domain postcard for this, repainted things, and added the hedgehog.
We borrowed a lot from Mucha’s Princess Hyacinth here but drew a lot in using Mucha’s style.
The bug’s form is based on a photo of a damselfly in a nice pose. The exposure was blown out so it wasn’t a good photo, so I decided to use the bug as a mostly white canvas to paint in, painting in the color and the light. The wings involved a lot of fiddling. With no detail we got to pick the species so it’s a double-striped bluet.
Disney fan art. Walt has effectively taken over part of our brain.
Haunted Mansion wallpaper shapes in the corner, but we drew the bats. We actually used a model from the 1890s for Leota, so she has Gibson Girl hair.
Chickadee Nouveau
I’ve been working on learning vector art since you can create nice clean lines and tune the lines until they’re close enough to what we want. The chickadees are vector line art but hand painted.
Revisiting the previous vector art with a new theme was fun. Also we should probably make shirts and things for this one.
I like turtles.
The Nature Bloggist 