I've been busy this week getting ready for another craft fair so I didn't have time to create a new illustration for this week's 'Illustration Friday' challenge but, in going through my old files, I did find an illustration from two years ago that I feel fits the word, which this week is "swarm." Though I completed this illustration in January of 2009, its history actually goes back quite a bit further. This image of a funny looking creature on an alien planet who is caught stealing nectar from an insect's private stash, started off as a pencil sketch in a sketchbook from twenty years ago. I came across it one day and decided it might be fun to do something with it, so I created this illustration. You can see that in the final illustration I added a whole swarm of angry insects who are poised to chase off the nectar poacher. I created a special insect nozzle for the image hose to paint in the swarm of bugs.Below are some images depicting the various stages of the image's creation.
