Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Illustration Friday: Brigade

























I've been reading Wildwood, written by Colin Meloy, with illustrations by Carson Ellis. Ms. Ellis' illustrations are really wonderful and suit the book perfectly, but seeing as Wildwood is a novel, there are many many characters and scenes that aren't illustrated. I've been loving imagining the fantastical characters and scenes of Mr. Meloy's story. So, when I saw that this week's word was "brigade" I immediately thought of Wildwood's army of coyotes. My original sketch for this involved several coyotes marching, but then I remembered that I had to make dinner and do laundry and make phone calls and work on other illustrations... so instead, here's this guy, an officer in the coyote brigade.

9 comments:

  1. He's so cute! I love his little fang. He looks like he got lost in the woods, poor thing!

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  2. What a noble and dashing looking young soldier:)

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  3. great take! love the little character

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  4. Nice fox! I like the shiny boots and the teeny mushrooms. (I don't like green olives or zombies, either! Or black olives.)

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  5. Lovely! Very dashing coyote! Love the dreamy colors.

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  6. He's very smart, love the serious expression on his face :)

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  7. He looks so dashing in his wonderful uniform.

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  8. He looks so nice :)love your use of colors and his little uniform.

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