Sweet Dinos
This is a personal Illustration I started to create a year ago. It came across a long process of character design and style exploration, until I got to the finished product.
There are some motivations and influences behind it that I'll explain below, but overall I wanted to make something fresh in terms of style.
It's been a great journey in which I have been accompanied by these fellows of various sizes, shapes and personalities (and flavors... maybe). Enjoy!
Detail View
The Process
It all started when I got hyped again by Dinosaurs on 2015. Pixar's A good Dinosaur was a great motivation and inspiration to create my own set of cartoony Dinosaurs. I knew from the beginning that I wanted fluffy feathered Dinosaurs, and that I wanted a different style from what I've seen before in other Dinosaur cartoon movies.
I made a lot of style studies, from very childish versions, to a more creepy ones. I found this was difficult, since I didn't knew exactly what was the feeling I wanted for this illustration. I tried to keep it close to my personal style, which is a little rough, but then I realized I wanted something softer, warm and joyful.
At some point I got influenced by Nintendo, since it's characters and games make me feel like a kid again. I wanted to make my Dinos reproduce that feeling of happiness, and then I got to a point when they started to look like if they where made of sweets and candies, so I decided that they should look kind of flavoury.
After that I got stuck in a point where I didn't knew what kind of render I wanted so I tried a lot of stuff, from something very painterly to plain vectors. At last with many things learned, I decided to return to the first idea I had, which was more plain but with a traditional art feeling, for which Kyle T Webster Brushes where like angels. At the same time I get to polish the final details and proportions of the characters.
And at last I decided to add more Dinos to the party, since I felt It was to empty, and I wanted more chaos and joy! But not all designs made it to the illustration.
So that's the process of this illustration. I hope You have enjoyed this behind the scenes.
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