Illustration of Alex Carlson

I’ve been having this problem at work recently where i will sit down to draw something for our custom printers and inevitably it will turn into some form of the Devil.  Seeing as we can’t use the devil or any controversial icon for the printers, I can no longer use the image for work and it becomes mine instead.

Two weeks ago i started drawing what i thought would be a sweet owl.  Then when i was drawing the head it turned into a goat head… with a 3rd eye… carrying a bone.  Well i really liked the original drawing and wanted to work with it on my own time.  The first drawing was a little overcomplicated and busy in the feathers.  I revisited the drawing today with those issues in mind and i’m really liking where its going now.  I would like to become a painting at some point.

But for now, i wanted to upload this to show some of my process with finished work.  Everything starts out as a sketch, full of mistakes and reworking, and overlapping.  Enjoy!

 

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