... is what this mosquito was dared to do – and in honour of Illustration Friday's current theme of sour, I present to you the toe-curling results.
My original concept was of a trio of raucous mossies egging a compadre on to suck the lemon – a type of hazing ritual – but I found the three of them together quickly becoming an indistinct tangle of probosci and bug legs. So for the sake of simplicity, I put my efforts into boiling the sketch down to a single dim-witted, unfortunate critter. And then even moreso by removing the lemon altogether and opting for a piece a touch more 't-shirty' overall.
This illustration was crafted near-completely digitally, with the exception of the original mosquito doodle in pen. The typeface used is Rockwell Extra Bold, and the background texture was gleaned from Crumble Crackle Burn: 120 Stunning Textures for Design & Illustration (pick up a copy – I'm in it!). Click here for a larger, detailed view.
13 comments:
Fun! Love the curly toes. Original concept!
That's awesome and very fun! I love the way you combined two very different concepts to come up with this!
Love the mosquito and the background. I live in the south and I wish the mosquitoes here would go suck on a lemon.
Believe me, they're here up north too, Katie. I'm still scratching from the weekend.
georgeous! I like the style and texture! the mozzies look much cuter full of lemonaid than my blood!
cute character and illo! :D
I like your mosquito! This is a great style! :D i wish there is such mosquito like this in real world. haha.
Great expression on his face! I love him! Liked reading the commentary too.
Nice design and illustration!
Dude...killer. Digital, yet organic.
Very nice! Very fun variation on an insect illo :)
I LOVE this one! Great work!
This is lovely and very original! I love it! :D
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