Dissection of a Digital Illustration

First Concept Sketch

The first sketch sent in for review. I was already starting to work with the image in 3D space, but the line drawing made for clearer communication. One of the challenges of 3D is that the early renders don't look like what most people expect a sketch to look like. They don't look "sketchy". I actually traced part of a 3D render to create this pencil sketch.

Comments:

I had the idea to have the bird in the midst of capturing the frog. This made the image more dynamic, and showing just the head allowed me to show the scale of the bird to the frog.