BACKGROUND  Took Robert Pastrana’s “Illustration Techniques and Concepts” class at the Art Center at Night in the Winter/Spring of 2012.

The class armed us with concepting tools to develop illustrations. For this particular illustration, we were given an article about a group of swimmers who were surprisingly saved by dolphins from preying sharks off the coast on a holiday vacation. Along with exercises and processes to develop the visual concept, we learned techniques in acrylic, watercolor and mix medium, creating marks on various paper, boards and surfaces.