Animal Farm Pt. 2

So today was our final for our Animal Farm character designs. Everyone's work looked amazing. Even Bunny and Courtney seemed quite impressed with the outcome of everyone's work because of the big jump in progress that everyone made. But...there were still a couple of issues that Bunny and Courtney had touched upon, making some general comments and critiques that pretty much applied to everyone. This is the work that I turned in...


Boxer-the big, naive, hard-working Clydesdale draft horse. I was pretty happy with the drawing, and I was anxious to take it to color. But when I did, I don't think it was as successful. Bunny brought up a couple of things that need to be addressed.



Squealer- a manipulative pig. In my opinion, I felt that this was the most successful of the three. I'm pretty happy with the way this turned out, but I think I can go back and fix up the overall design/look of the spread itself, as well as the others.



Border Collie-one of the security/guard dogs. Acts as a bodyguard for the pigs. During the preliminary sketches, a lot of things weren't really working, and I felt this was one of the more difficult animals to draw and convey, but I was actually impressed with the way this turned out. I'm pretty satisfied with the end result, just some minor fixes.


character lineup

Overall, I felt that these were only fairly successful in that, I haven't quite captured the style of reference artist, Arthur Rackham. His style was definitely a challenge to emulate. I didn't even think I would come relatively close. But that just goes to show how much one can achieve, if you put in the time and work. Enjoy!

-jeff