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The FaunaFocus Free-For-All is an art competition that is open to all and is intended to foster community-based learning while celebrating successes and encouraging artists to improve from discipline and criteria.
Kylart decided to depict the spectacled bear literally, wearing spectacles! With a glasses-wearing mother overlooking her scholarly cub, a charming composition was created. Bathed in tones of sepia, this pair radiates with charm and detail. This ink and watercolor piece looks like it came straight out of a whimsical storybook!
Danji Isthmus digitally painted a long vertical piece featuring the varied stripes of the okapi’s hindquarters deconstructing into a colorful composition full of particles and vivid details. With white and black moths flying about the animal and the stripes seemingly disintegrating into the background, the illustration gives a whimsical, fantasy-like feeling.
ActivateAngel created an unusually complex composition crafted with simplistic elements. This graphic design utilized just four colors to create a family portrait of an adult beluga whale and its younger sibling. With bright, saturated colors and a cartoon-like stylization of the belugas’ expressions, this piece radiates with a fun and calming energy.
Draws with Kitties' first attempt at charcoal, depicts an atmospheric, achromatic illustration of a bearded vulture character skulking about a shrouded graveyard. With a lantern in hand, this creature is beautifully lit, allowing the viewer to feel as if he is peering from behind the tombstones, taking note of all the feathers and bones that adorn the peculiar individual. Mist and fog obscure the area and add to the eerie unsettling feeling.
Shadowind digitally painted a beautiful display of the African penguin diving underwater to catch a fishy feast. With such vivid colors and lovely gradients, this piece perfectly captures the fluid, fast movement of the penguin as it dives into the sea with other members of its colony.
Shane S. (Yodeldog) painted an ecstatic and vibrant depiction of a dancing dhole loving life and surrounded by a rainbow of colors. Inspired by the Hopi Festival that takes place in India, a natural habitat for the Indian wild dog, this piece highlighted the culture that surrounds this animal in a pleasing and stylized fashion. With neon hues and graphic shapes, this piece was skillfully composed and clearly demonstrated joy.
TheMissFox painted an impressive illustration of a green turtle amidst a sea of greens and blues. Mostly depicted in cool colors, the turtle is composed within the sea amongst heavily textured coral and vegetation. Slight accents of yellows and browns allow for warm tones to complement the color scheme and create a harmonious painting altogether.
Shane S. (Yodeldog) created a small 2.5″x3.5″ artist trading card featuring the common palm civet amongst branches full of lush coffee cherries. Drawn with Prismacolor colored pencils on a dark background, this artwork displays a carefully constructed composition made up of a rich level of detail.
Claire's watercolor composition displayed a complimentary purple and yellow color scheme that highlighted the plight of the white rhino. It invoked emotion within its creative and original elements.
Inspired by the words of writer, Julio Cortazar, Draws with Kitties painted an incredible depiction of an axolotl in a science-fiction scene. Primarily drawn with Copic markers, this complicated composition radiates with a multitude of colors and draws the viewer in with a sense of wonder and mystique.
Claire's serene and whimsical piece brought out all the positive traits of the red panda through harmonious, deliberate visual language. This traditional piece was painted with watercolor and utilized swirling brushstrokes to create a unified composition that emphasized the omnivore's markings.
Ashereast painted a pastel-colored celestial tiger full of fluidity and movement. Set amongst a backdrop of stars, this colorful feline gives a calming, yet curious, sense that captures the viewer’s imagination.
Denise Kristin (TheGlitchyIris) created a traditional piece of artwork using a tribal style. As owls are one of Denise’s favorite animals, she chose to adorn the great horned owl with a crown and jewels, using a complex system of line work and shapes to define the avian.
Sofera took on the challenge of painting with watercolors for the first time in a while and depicted a family pod of vaquita swimming through the gulf. Sofera used a watery medium to emphasize the aquatic habitat of the vaquita and utilized cool colors to unify the composition.
Zoe’s traditional composition was well-constructed with contrasting elements that came together to create an interesting composition. A sense of duality was created as the ocellated turkey was drawn in full-frame in the foreground using a monochromatic color scheme contrasting with a close-up of the bird’s colorful feathers painted in the full chroma of shades.
Shane S. (Yodeldog) digitally painted an optimistic aardwolf amongst an African savannah habitat. Bathed in the golden glow of a sunset, this hyena appears to be waking up for his daily snooze to hunt termites in the dead of night.