JANUARY CONTEST: Tiger

[Heather Boyd]

Hello everyone! I haven't posted in a monthly contest since October 2020. So I am excited to be back and do a few this year! I do hope the format is correct, thanks.

*So I bought a EPSON scanner -very nice and normally gets my colours right. But here my green background is more yellow (I painstakingly made my colours just right) and it looks more out of focus when I shrink to fit the format scale -any help would be appreciated?

[Larue]

Looks like I was supposed to put my final here. Great stuff being submitted!

[Larue]

@mrgarypotts Love your color palette and style of line work, fun piece!

[Larue]

@asyas_illos Love your style, super cute!

[Larue]

@cayleen Love the changes you made to your initial sketch. Glad to see you stuck with your initial idea and made it work. Nice!

[Asyas_illos]

@larue aww thank you!

[Melissa_Bailey]

Loving everyone's takes on this month's prompt! Here's mine -- an homage to the classic picture book The Tiger Who Came to Tea ...

[Melissa_Bailey]

Aaand ... snuck in another one this month, too! (Took a few days off to draw and relax.) It was a bunch of fun playing with color and different brushes in Procreate, and thought I'd share it as well.

[Jeremy Ross]

Both submissions are so good @melissa_bailey!

[Melissa_Bailey]

@jeremy-ross aww, thanks so much! I love the girl's expression in your piece. You nailed the humor!

[Robert Maine]

[Oana]

This image popped into my head by the middle of january in a fuzzy form and I barely managed to finish it in time... not sure it reads well (the image or the concept), but I am really happy, had a blast doing it!

[cianamacaroni]

Hey folks! It's been a while. I wanted to share my illustration for this month, along with the story behind it.

I want to illustrate nonfiction picture book biographies, so I challenged myself to find a figure from history related to tigers to illustrate this month. So without further adieu, let me introduce you to Mabel Stark!

"Marvelous" Mabel Stark is thought to be the first ever female tiger trainer. She fell in love with tigers after sneaking into the circus one night (around 1911) and knew she had to work with them. She suffered 700 stitches in her career and was nearly mauled to death at one point, but she continued the craft until she was almost 80 years old. “For me, there is no greater thrill than stepping into a cageful of those glorious beasts and matching wits with them,” she wrote.

Hope you enjoy!

[Melissa_Bailey]

@cianamacaroni LOVE your style! Great concept and great story behind it. Thanks for introducing us to Mabel!

[cianamacaroni]

@melissa_bailey thanks so much Melissa!

[Catherine360]

Hey everyone I love everyone’s pieces here! Really glad to be taking part again !

[Koaila.art]

Wow so many amazing works this month guys you rock! I thought I wouldn’t participate this month but the last moment I submitted. That was my first time drawing a Tiger btw haha hope you will like it! Someone escaped from the zoo!

[Melissa_Bailey]

@koaila-art LOVE IT! Great movement and color palette too!

[Perky Smith-Hagadone]

[Kim Rosenlof]

@heather-boyd This is so lovely! I love the texture.