Knitted Cats

Began work on the cats for my children's book recently. My initial idea was for the illustrations to have strong, clean lines done on illustrator and then be filled with scanned textures.

The first lot of finished cats looked like this. Clean lines and softer texture. After speaking with Ian we decided that these cats didn't have the same "life" to them. The first doodles and sketches had much more life to them so I tried to find a way to combine both clean lines and sketchy lines.

After playing around with layers and the different lines the cats started to look more like this. I'm really happy with this style and there are lots more things I want to try.