I know you’re all probably still buzzing from the Homestuck update and hungry for fanart, but alas! I’m in school and still need to do my homework. At least it’s cool homework??

As the text might suggest, this is a sketch for a promotional poster for a food and wine festival. The elements the client wanted included were smoky mountain scenery, wine/grapes/wine bottles/casks/etc, and black bears, and they wanted it to be fun, but classy (so it would cater to older demographics). A lot of the suggested ideas had to do with bears drinking wine but I know at least one or two of my classmates are taking that approach and I thought that was maybe a little too silly… One of the other suggestions was a cask of wine with a bear brand on it, though, so I took that and ran.

I only ended up doing one thumbnail for it before moving on to the full-size digital sketch, partly because I really liked the direction it was going, and partly because I have so many projects going at once that I just don’t have very much time to spend sketching this week!

I’m fairly certain it’s just up to the committee in charge of the festival to choose which design they go with, so no public voting this time, but I’m really pleased with the way it’s going so I think it has a fair chance.

Speaking of unleashing the internet on a public vote, though, my guitar-playing statue won that contest thanks to you guys! All I need to do now is add a couple event details to it and it’s done. The event itself is in about a week and a half, so I need to get some print stock ready. Excite!