Foxed
I went to an illustration workshop at St Martins a week or so ago. It was a fantastically intensive run of briefs, deadlines and drawing exercises all flying at a huge rate of knots. I loved every second! So some work from it follows.
Brief to illustrate a quote “the fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing”
Line drawing and collage
The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing
Some development doodles from my sketchbook, below.
I often find it interesting to draw from imagination first then look to reference material. The way your brain tells you something looks is kind of strange! I preferred my imagined, exaggeratedly pointy fox to those I drew from photos or watching my local ones play in the street, even though they were less accurate they felt really foxy to me. The hedgehog improved with a good look through some reference material. The lower two sketches are from when I centred on the idea i wanted to use to illustrate the quote (the hedgepig with a class of foxes) and the final composition after some experiments changing scale and viewpoint.
foxier than fox
