psshaw: rowkey: A mock spot-illustration intended to illustrate a factoid.  I chose to bring light to this interesting breeding project going on in South Africa, The Quagga Project.  Whether the ‘quaggas’ they’re attempting to revive are considered legitimate or not, I still find it absolutely mindblowing that dormant genes can be tapped into so easily!   Quaggas weren’t really bright orange, but I’ll admit to being heavily inspired by Terryl Whitlatch’s portrayal in her Katurran Odyssey illustrations.  It also helped to obviously differentiate the two species, so I went with it.  This was another Big Huge Media Experiment, as the oil wash over watercolor I wanted to try was rendered useless by the Arches’ watercolor board I decided to use.  Instead, it became a giant mashup of watercolor, marker, gouache, and colored pencil.  :’] You know that project I did Rasputin for? Both the Katies did pieces I ended up being so impressed by that I was showing them off to a couple friends. Stripes are nature’s best design element.

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rowkey:

A mock spot-illustration intended to illustrate a factoid.  I chose to bring light to this interesting breeding project going on in South Africa, The Quagga Project.  Whether the ‘quaggas’ they’re attempting to revive are considered legitimate or not, I still find it absolutely mindblowing that dormant genes can be tapped into so easily!  

Quaggas weren’t really bright orange, but I’ll admit to being heavily inspired by Terryl Whitlatch’s portrayal in her Katurran Odyssey illustrations.  It also helped to obviously differentiate the two species, so I went with it.  This was another Big Huge Media Experiment, as the oil wash over watercolor I wanted to try was rendered useless by the Arches’ watercolor board I decided to use.  Instead, it became a giant mashup of watercolor, marker, gouache, and colored pencil.  :’]

You know that project I did Rasputin for? Both the Katies did pieces I ended up being so impressed by that I was showing them off to a couple friends.

Stripes are nature’s best design element.