I met a dog. A Greek dog. And I’ve been tempted sketching about his pace of life. Meanwhile I found out about PeculiarBliss latest call for submission with a theme matching flawlessly what this dog – let’s call it Pluto – inspired me: “Pastime”.

Me and Pluto met at Jimmy’s in the village of Pelekas, Corfu. As most dog he was mainly chilling out, but he had this powerful expression on his face translating many years of an extremely peaceful life. Another definition of time for Pluto then, so far away from our busy and hyper fast pace of life of over-connected people.

This is Pluto having a nap:

A bunch of pictures to pimp up the idea:

And 18 steps of the doodling, sketching & painting process:

After a couple of Illustration Friday failures I finally managed to sketch a little something during today’s Eurostar trip. This Winter is cold but feels warm. Oh la la.

After I had fun drawing faces from biscuits’ fat stains on my note book, I draw several random shapes and let me inspired by them to get the result above.

For adding the colours I experimented the use of vectors instead of my standard bitmap approach. I don’t understand why I haven’t done this before as it’s fast, clean, flexible and fun to play with.

Of course this is still a weirdo illustration of nothing in particular but it’s cool to me, I love exprimentation!