#panthera-tigris

[johnnyslittleanimalblog]

Tiger Hoenderdaell 3L0A0228 by safi kok

[lazer-t]

Bengal Tiger

This illustration is January's ko-fi Sticker Club design!

[fyanimaldiversity]

Abundistic Bengal tigers (Panthera tigris tigris)

[darkmasterofdragons]

Wow first of all I'd just like to say thank you for all the love I got on this inverted ballpoint pen piece in the last few days!! 🥺

I got the inevitable wave of people asking me how I made it and lucky for y'all I had to take a lot of progress pictures to make this so I'm making a post about how I drew this!

See more under the cut!

Starting off of course we have the sketch of our subject in pencil

Then, following the inverted version of my reference image I slowly start building up layers of inverted colour. What I'm drawing irl is on the left, and the inverted version of that is on the right.

You can tell I was nervous at first not wanting to mess it up lol

This piece really helped me grasp the importance of undertones in a way I never have before

Here I started getting Really excited about how it was gonna turn out I couldn't believe I was making this with my own 2 hands

Believe it or not working in inverted colours with ballpoint pen is actually 10x easier than working in normal colours because with ballpoint pen once you've added too much ink you can't undo it you can't make it any lighter, but when you're going to invert the image at the end it's a lot more forgiving because the dark areas become the bright areas when it's inverted!

Don't get me wrong though it took a lot of focus and like brain power to draw in inverted colours, it was like learning how to ride a backwards bicycle, it took all my concentration to not follow my brains natural instincts and muscle memory when it came to creating the colours I wanted to create 😵‍💫

Nearly finished at this point, just needed some colour adjustments

The final check for the colours before I added the finishing touches and scanned the final piece and voila!!

You have an inverted ballpoint pen tiger 🤯 It's really not as hard as it looks, it's just a lot of layering and a lot of patience 🙏🙏

I had like 15 more progress pictures but unfortunately I can only upload 10 pictures in a post so I tried to order them in a way that showed the most key points in my process 😅 If you have any questions feel free to ask I love helping out fellow artists learn new skills!!

[tigerleopardlion]

Bengal Tiger | Andrea Mazzoli

[tsalala]

Amazing eyes on a tiger photographed by Anirudh Laxmipathy.

[snototter]

An Amur tiger or Siberian tiger (Panthera tigris tigris) in Ouwehands Dierenpark, the Netherlands

by safi kok

[palaeosinensis]

I was trying this morning to distill what makes paleolithic European cave art...well cave art! And then apply it to an animal not seen in Europe. The technique was more important here than the results; I think the big bodies & smaller heads yet otherwise accurate features are a result of the artists having a sort of tunnel vision while working. As one drifts part to part lifting up the implement as little as possible the parts appear in proportion to their immediate neighbor. They are also distilled to their most important details & for the body that's a wide rectangular space. If you picture yourself working on a heavily textured wall as tall or taller than you are with the equivalent of a tea light (oil lamps) or a flickering torch you can imagine how easy it would be to get that kind of focused tunnel vision. While we see tunnel vision as a bad thing while learning art today in terms of cave art I just sort of see it as a natural consequence. You're going to focus really hard on what needs it; there are no erasers. Additional paint can't be bought at the store. Stone walls have limited access. You're going to make the best of every resource while you're there. Besides who said the animal had to be proportional anyway? You know exactly what you're looking at! Artist commentary: it was challenging deciding what was most important but also representing that important thing as accurately as possible. I feel like that's a common thread in all cave art from peoples across the world: draw what's most important. The rest will work out.

[fishsplash]

Sweet boy

[tysonfurybattlepass]

BIG FUCKER

[wikipediapictures]

White tiger

[johnnyslittleanimalblog]

Tiger Hoenderdaell DSC00918 by safi kok

[lazer-t]

January Sticker Club design: Bengal Tiger

Join before February 1st to get this design!

By joining my sticker club for $15 a month, each month you will receive:

x1 Standard Vinyl Sticker (6 x 7.5cm)

x1 Large Vinyl Sticker (11.5 x 15cm) (Sticker Club Exclusive)

x1 Standard Vinyl Glow in the Dark Sticker (6 x 7.5cm) (Sticker Club Exclusive)

x1 Large Vinyl Glow in the Dark Sticker (11.5 x 15cm) (Sticker Club Exclusive)

x1 Mini Print (14.5 x 18cm) printed on coloured card + signed on the back

x1 Single-use Code for 10% off your next BigCartel store order

A hand-written thank you note from me

x1 Random mystery sticker from my store!

The design of the stickers and print will be a different animal each month!

More info below the cut:

Comes with standard untracked shipping included.

You can join and quit my Sticker Club membership whenever you like. If you are a continuous subscriber, your rewards for each subsequent month will be dispatched 1-3 days after your billing date (approximately the same date as the one you joined each month).

I also have a 1$+ tier available on my ko-fi with no specific rewards, for anyone who would like to support me otherwise.

If you would prefer just the standard sticker without the subscription, it can be bought individually through my store here.

Large and glow-in-the dark stickers of this design remain exclusive to the Sticker Club and will be unavailable after January 31st.

February 2025's design will be revealed later this month.

[tiifu-ndovu]

[finnicks-elbow]

its only 4 days until the film comes out. alexa play final countdown

[tigerleopardlion]

Bengal Tiger | Andy Rouse