Sunday, October 11, 2009

Flying


I was looking through my journal and came across a rough sketch I did inspired by a dream of my husbands. He had woken and told me about how two owls had picked up a koala out of a tree and flown away with him. We had a laugh and I had this image pop in my head, drew it rough and forgot all about it. When I saw the theme of IF "Flying", I recalled this fun sketch and decided to draw it out in illustrator and colour in photoshop. I'd written in my journal and share. The inspiration from the dream was "flying forward". I really enjoyed playing with this today, and all those other chores I had to do, ooops, they got left.

13 comments:

soulbrush said...

this is delightful

Stacey J. Warner said...

wonderful...I recently wrote about owls on my blog along with a few other people...interesting...

yoon see said...

What an uplifted illustration!
I hope to see the kaola fly!

James Hart said...

Poor Koala!!

this is great! I love the owls!

Tomás Serrano said...

I think your koala seems not ready to fly, ha, ha, ha.

Dream Painter said...

haha, poor kaola, cute!!

Owl Eng said...

delightful and lovely!! i love the two owls.. really cute! and the koala bear's expression is cool ;)

Owl Eng said...

delightful and lovely!! i love the two owls.. really cute! and the koala bear's expression is cool ;)

get zapped said...

So playful and funny! I think it's neat your interpreted your husbands dream through art.

Anonymous said...

Very awesome work. Love the owls pop eyes. Very good stuff. I would not want to illustrate the nightmare I had last night about being a junkie and people eating monsters. I think it was a combination of having watched the movie "Fear", and the latest "Smallville" episode.

valerie walsh said...

It is adorable Gai! I would like to learn Illustrator.

Duncan said...

Love the look in the owls' eyes. nice one.

Asja said...

koala doesn't seem to interested in flying :)
very nice and original illustration!