Dogs For The Disabled: Hide And Seek

Brussels is hiding behind the curtain.

Dogs For The Disabled: Jump Through A Hoop

List Item Number Eight: Jump Through A Hoop

I really like this one, check out the dynamic leaping motion... I'm even more pleased with this as about 40% of this was done one handed whilst on the phone. Now considering I don't have a mouse attached to my laptop I feel that's quite an achievement. Stretching for curves & hot keys really gives the fingers a good work out. This is also the half way point in the set. It's all downhill from here.

Dogs For The Disabled: Pick Up The Dog Bowl

List Item Number Seven: Pick Up The Dog Bowl.

Another one complete. That's two today. Crank it up. Nice.

Dogs For The Disabled: Commando Crawl

List Item Number Six: Commando Crawl

I'm running out of things to say about these dogs. This one was a bit more difficult to do because it's the first head on view of the dog, all the others have been looking slightly to the side, it's given him quite a wide face.

Dogs For The Disabled: Roll Over

List Item Number Five: Roll Over. Now that I've had hand in I can finally get on with doing this project, it's been really difficuly to balance both but I'm going to crack on with it now.

Dogs For The Disabled: Shoot Dead

List item number four: Shoot Dead.

A trick in which you make a gun hand shape... thing and say bang and the dog plays dead.

I'm getting much, much faster at these. This took about half the time of the others although I had a lot of trouble with the shape of the back legs. I really like the hand though, works well. This is also post number 400.

Dogs For The Disabled: Dirty Face

List item number 3.

I'm getting a lot faster at these. Actually that's a total lie. The basic sketch/outline is taking me longer and longer each time because I'm trying to get it to look as much like the other ones as possible. I am however getting much faster at the colouring on them, this one was swift.

Dogs For The Disabled: Play Bowing

List Item #2: play bowing. Another illustration for the Dogs For The Disabled website. Took longer than it should of really, I'm pretty slow on illustrator, getting better though. I like gradients.

Dogs For The Disabled: Fetching A Treat Box

Here's Brussels again. He's list item #1: Fetching a treat box from the cupboard. Theres his treat box that he's just fetched. Not sure if I should of done it in action, definitely something to think about for the other 15 illustrations.

Dogs For The Disabled

So I've picked up a brief to create a set of 16 dog characters doing different things for the website of Dogs For The Disabled. This little fella is the first to come out of illustrator. He's not completely finished yet as he's not actually doing anything as you can see, but its half 1 in the morning & I wanted to post him before I went to sleep.

Backstory: His name is Brussels, he likes pork.