Tardigrade Parade
An illustration project I did in my 1st year of university, where I had to create various illustrations of tardigrades based on a scientific article, that talked about how resilient they are, and how they are able to survive in the freezing cold and the vacuum of space.
I started off with some basic sketches of the character designs I had chosen for this project. I used this as an opportunity to see how i would be able to draw the tardigrades from different angles, lightings, and how far I would be able to stretch the proportions whilst still keeping it looking like a tardigrade.
Since tardigrades had been lovingly given the nickname "little water bears" when they were first discovered, I wanted to see if I would be able to include actual bears in the illustrations to show how they could interact in a comical way.
One of the workshops we did for this project was a character design workshop where we had to try and create self insert character designs in the style we had decided to use.
We were also tasked with creating a short comic based on our chosen articles, which also included our self insert characters.
