Drawing pencils are still my favourite media.
Whether because they’re the first thing you experiment with as a kid (apart from “food on wall”, which was my first attempt at making art apparently), or because it’s simply easy and immediate, I just love it.
So, since I don’t really have a deadline to upgrade my portfolio, I decided to take ut easy and sketch everything on paper instead of painting directly on screen.

This is the first sketch I have done from the list of suggestion I managed to gather from fellow redditors. The brief is, roughly, Quadrupedal creature carrying chilling out people, which is something quite fun to draw, I must say.

While looking around for reference I stumbled upon this post on The ArtOrder, (which I avidly follow) which in turn led me to this post on James Gurney’s blog, which for some reason I had missed (I avidly follow him as well).

The lighting in the first picture is pretty much what I had in mind for my quadrupedal creature carrying around chilling out people, playing with the contrast between cold and warm. I don’t expect the result to be as appealing, but I’ll try. Hard.
In the meantime, here’s the sketch.
I haven’t given much thought on the background yet, I guess I’ll think about it along the way.