Artwork: Baby Ki'rin from the Ki'rin Project

This is the image that started the whole Ki'rin project. I decided one day that that's what I wanted to draw so that's what I drew. After I completed it I was so enamoured with the little guy that I decided that he needed a family and a nice place to live. I then drew what would end up being the female, followed what was suppose to be the male but, I think, really ended up being another female. I decided to go with that since they remind me of deer anyway and they run in female/fawn groups. The other Ki'rin will be in posts to follow and then the landscape that they're placed in.

Artwork: The Ki'rin Project

I'm working on something I call the Ki'rin Project. Even though I'm no where near done I figured I'd start uploading images. Once they're all up you'll see that the Ki'rin themselves are completed (at least to the initial drawing stage) but I'm still working on the cherry tree. If you look at the background image you'll be able to see how I'm working from the bottom up. In the end the Ki'rin will be composited into the background and then I'll do all the lines again in Illustrator and colorize it in Painter. The final project will be of Eastern influence but very similar to the Art Nouveau style I like so much. If you don't know what a Ki'rin is here's a link. I'm doing the Japanese version.