Animal Alphabets – Extinct Animals

This is a complete line-up of illustrations I created this year for the Animal Alphabets art challenge featuring extinct animals. Scroll through my blog to see larger images from the series.

Every week the Animal Alphabets twitter account announces an animal prompt, instructing artists to post their illustration of the animal on the following Monday. The animal’s name corresponds to each letter of the alphabet, so that’s why there are 26 animals in the challenge. The theme for this round was extinct animals. Continue reading

Zalmoxes

This week’s illustration for the Animal Alphabets art challenge was a Zalmoxes. I started out with the intention to make this a smooth skinned dinosaur, but after testing out some feathers I quickly got carried away with feather arrangements. Since I haven’t drawn many feathers during this round, it’s probably a good thing that I gave it a try for this last animal of the alphabet. Next week I’ll post the completed set of illustrations to the blog with some thoughts about the challenge.

Xinjiangtitan

Here is an illustration of a Xinjiangtitan for this week’s Animal Alphabets art challenge. The texture that I achieved on the Velociraptor reminded me a bit of DAUB’s FluidInk brushes, so I decided to try them out on this illustration. I was a big fan of those brushes when they first came out, but I’ve never actually used them on a project before now. The set-up for the brushes is a bit annoying, but the results that you can get with them are amazing. I really need to play with these brushes more in the future.

Woolly Rhinoceros

This week’s illustration for the Animal Alphabets art challenge was a Woolly Rhinoceros. Someone contacted me earlier this year and mentioned that I the Rhino that I drew last year had only one horn instead of two. I corrected that mistake on my blog, but I think it’s interesting that I get to draw an actual two horned Rhino this year as well. Hopefully I didn’t mess up any details on this one!

Sabre-Toothed Tiger

An illustration of a Sabre-Toothed Tiger for this week’s Animal Alphabets art challenge. I’ve drawn a couple black and white tigers during the past inktober challenges I’ve done, but I’ve never tried to draw a basic full bodied tiger in color before. The stripes were the toughest part to work on–it reminded me of the difficulty I had with drawing Zebra stripes last year.