How To Make Animal Drawings With Online Shapes

Creating Geometric Animal Art

with Designer Cristina Marcos

I had the idea of a collection of geometric animals a couple of months ago, when I was thinking of how to decorate a room. I bought an iPad last yr and started using Concepts, and then I thought it could be a great opportunity to explore the possibilities of this app.

I created a drove of artwork and have begun selling it on Society6, an online service that prints your images onto customizable items such equally notebooks, t-shirts, comforters and curtains. It's been a great feel.

In each of the cases, the artistic process I take followed started by doing some research on the internet and finding some pictures equally references. For example:

Using these images as inspiration, I drew some sketches by hand to begin to get accustomed to the shapes of the fauna. Since I wanted the animals to be drawn surrounded by something that evoked their natural habitat, I also drew things like waves, forests, and copse.

Every fourth dimension I felt I had found the right elements to compose my drawing, I made a final drawing on paper in which I tried to trace the lines as geometrically as possible. Here you can see the terminal sketches of each animal.

The adjacent pace was taking this cartoon to Concepts past taking its flick.

I added a layer using the pencil tool with the precision shape guides applied. Then, I created a layer for each element of the beast, using the shape guides to outline the brute's areas in perfect shapes.

To not echo all of the drawing I did in the pencil layer, I copied and pasted the pencil elements into a new layer, selected each pencil stroke, and changed it to the fill tool.

So I erased the parts I didn't want, as well using the shape guides for perfect edges. With this procedure, I built the base of the geometric animals.

With this base of operations done, I created more layers for adding shadows and patterns. For the shadows, I used the mark pen and the airbrush.

In the instance of the patterns, if these were shapes such as circles or triangles, I used the library of objects given by Concepts.

If they were something more elaborate, every bit for example the tree leaf of the toucan, I drew one and duplicated information technology several times.

In these examples, yous tin can meet the differences in the drawings earlier and after applying the shadows and patterns.

Finally, I added some textures to my drawings by importing them as images and modifying the opacity. For the groundwork, I also imported some pictures that fit well with the colors of the pattern.

Turtle. I tried to evoke the sea and the ocean through waves, bluish colors and the lord's day. This is the only one of the drawings that is totally symmetrical. I drew only half of the blueprint and so I used the reflect tool.

Owl. In this case, I did a fiddling experiment with the airbrushes and the markers, using them with low opacity. I wanted to get a drawing that interacts with a nighttime background. I tried to used colors that could requite a feeling of fluorescence. Although this drawing is symmetrical in form, each side is different in color, and so I did each part differently.

Toucan. In this drawing, I broke the symmetry and wanted to give a sensation of someplace very hot by using vibrant colors similar red, orange and dark-green. The patterns were inspired by the environment in which toucans alive.

Squirrel. Again, the cartoon is non symmetrical, and I tried to evoke a forest with a lot of browns and some greens. I had a lot of fun in some parts, similar the outer circle, trying to go the look inspired by woods.

I have printed these drawings on canvas to decorate my room. Here you can see the final results:

You tin meet the designs applied to dissimilar products hither on Society6. For example, on iPhone cover cases and on tote bags:

I accept had a great feel with Society6. I like how it is really easy to use and one tin can see the designs applied to products very fast. It's difficult for people to find your art among all the artists, but I guess that'south every bit difficult equally in any other platform for sharing designs.

Thank you for your interest in my fine art, and take fun creating your own designs!

Cristina Marcos is a physicist working on weather condition forecasting variables. She has always loved to draw then she dedicates much of her gratuitous time to projects related to art. Adjacent fall she will start a college career in digital design.

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Interview by Erica Christensen — Director of Community at TopHatch