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ThePrimith — 3 Monkeys and an Aardvark
Published: 2010-03-24 02:23:38 +0000 UTC; Views: 3344; Favourites: 32; Downloads: 194
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When I was applying to the company that I am currently employed for, which is named 3 Monkeys and Aardvark Studios, I took note of the odd name. I said to myself, "That has to have some sort of personal relevance to the creators of the company." So, when applying, as a way to both illustrate my drawing abilities and catch the attention of the members of the company, I did this piece.I actually had to do a good deal of research on this piece. The monkeys used here are all native to Africa, though I doubt that they would ever walk in stride. The one doing the poking with the stick is a Dusky Leaf Monkey, the one lifting the aardvark's rear leg is an Olive Baboon, and the one riding on the aardvark's back is a Rhesus Macaque infant. I tried to keep the subjects as close to the actual ratios to one another, but frankly, I had nothing to compare against, so I was mostly flying blind.
In any case, the man that became my current boss was very impressed with the work I did, and after having an interview with him, he decided to hire me. I've been enjoying working with him ever since. Perhaps in the future, I will even be able to display some of the work I have done for the company.
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Very impressive! It's great that you did so much research for this.
If I had a company, I would have hired you, too!
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Many thanks!
One of those things they drilled into us at school: the paramount importance of research. We actually had among the highest credit hours of all the majors on campus on account of graphic designers needing a lot of information to do their jobs effectively.
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Nice work! Really like how this looks. Comical yet beautifully detailed.
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This too is awesome. You should just draw photo realistic animals doing strange stuff, that they're capable of doing (no poker), like this, it's kind of a neat concept in itself.
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Yeah, this was kinda a fun deviation to my normal mode of drawing. I especially want to do a better picture of the baby Rhesus Macaque. I'm not kidding, he was excited about whatever, and the expression was unforgettable.
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I like how you got emotions into each animal very much.
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Admittedly, the Rhesus Macaque was easy (the little monkey), because I found a picture where the tiny guy was hooting about some-such with these eyes of blazing excitement. To me, it almost looked like it was saying, "OH SNAP!" about something. I couldn't deny feeling some level of mutual excitement for whatever it was getting riled up about. Definitely my favorite one to draw, through it was too small to be captured with a decent level of accuracy of the original photograph.
In any case, thanks.
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