Animal Supermarket

Animal Supermarket

This was painted in photoshop and completed in oct 2010. It is a follow on I suppose from the animal underground commute illustration done a few years ago. Some of the animals are the same,in particular the crab and snake, but there are a few additions that were noty in the previous one. Doing all the packs on the shelves does take time, even using cloning,etc tools in digital painting.

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This image is painted in photoshop at a size of 29cm x 21cm. It is a follow on from the animal underground commute painting done the year before, by picturing animals doing a very human mundane activity, and features a collection of animals enjoying their weekly supermarket shop. The animal customers featured are elephants (and daughter), Lion, Cow, Bull, crab (carrying stuff on his shell as on the tube journey picture), Lioness and son, Pig, Snake, Bear, Crocodile, Zebra, Rhinoceros, Hippopotamus, Tiger, Giraffe, and Monkey. Horses are again featured serving the customers at the checkout as in the supermarket horse illustration, else where on this site.
Producing all the packs can be a bit tedious, even using photoshop, but it is important for the setting. Also for the setting it is important to have boards with prices around, so time was spent creating graphics that look like numbers but are not recognizable as numerals.

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Post man Hippo
Milkman on morning round

The postman hippo was painted in april 2010. I wanted to have fun showing the difference in scale between a little bike and the large bulk of the animal. The milkman was painted in sept 2008. It is a 'cheeky' image, and I thought about the 'carry on' films while doing this.

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Post man Hippo
I like painting animals doing human activities and this painting illustrates a very large and heavy Hippopotamus sitting on a small red 'royal mail' bicycle delivering the mail. Painted in 2009. 
Milkman on morning round
This digital illustration is of a milkman out on his daily milk round in a street. A woman is waving from one of the upstairs windows of a house in the street. The scene is set in the 1960s. The milkman is in a traditional uniform of the time and the painting is at a low angle to show both the woman and the milkman, and to give interest. Painted in 2008.