King Jackalope

Pencil, Photoshop.

I thought Matt’s rabbit girl portrait from last week was incredible. It was surprising yet grounded in his personal style, a step in some bizarre direction I hadn’t thought of. Amazing.

For my response, I chose to depict my spirit animal, the mighty jackalope, in a king’s robes and crown. Originally it was going to be a little doodle, a jackalope with wings: I guess the rainy day made me take the whole thing a little more seriously. I also drew a little banner that said “King of Real”, but I couldn’t make it fit, and after a while it didn’t mean anything to me, so it got the boot.

My concentration for this piece was the color palette- I tried to keep the colors light in order to highlight both the negative space and the deep red of the robe. I had a rich purple background at one point, but I kept coming back to the white- even the blue was left in grudgingly to add a bit of depth.

I’m actually sort of in love with this piece.