Joaquín: Animator by Day, Dreamer by Night

Here is another personal project I've been working on over the last two weeks.
Practicing my digital painting and Illustrator skills inspired by wildlife.
It was encouraging to see the progress from first to last.
They all started with just pencil and paper. See the GIF's at the bottom for breakdowns.

Reference found via Animals + Nature

"I feel like I'm nothing without wildlife. They are the stars. I feel awkward without them." - Bindi Irwin

"If we go on as we are, we will destroy in the next century everything that the poets have been singing about for the past two thousand years." - Fred Bodsworth

"A country is known by the way it treats its animals." - Jawaharlal Nehru

"We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect." - Aldo Leopold

"The quicker we humans learn that saving open space and wildlife is critical to our welfare and quality of life, maybe we'll start thinking of doing something about it." - Jim Fowler

"There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough, to pay attention to the story." - Linda Hogan