Freed Demon

My final project for my Basic Illustration class, done all in black technical pens with a teensy bit of white gouache for touch-ups (sepia tone and border in photoshop). The assignment for this one was to illustrate a fortune cookie phrase, but we could stretch it as far as we wanted, as long as it still sort of pertained to the original phrase. Mine was "Something unusual will happen to you at work or school." So maybe this is a researcher's desk who recently unrolled a Japanese scroll, and unwittingly released a terrible fox demon into the world! Or something... XD

I had a lot of fun with this piece, especially with a medium I'm unfamiliar with. I know that the muzzle looks weasel-ish, and the cast shadows are pointing in different directions, and I'm sure there's plenty other stuff that's wrong with it, but like the other class projects, I've had enough critique for this one. I did touch it some when I got it back, like pushed the darks a little bit more.

copyright to Katie Hofgard