Rabbits*

I have been illustrating a few rabbits for my book cover, still running with the idea of the rabbit being down the hole. I wanted to draw the rabbit, in a playful way, meaning the illustration not being too realistic! I wanted the rabbit to look as if he was looking up ad out of the hole, I showed this in the way the rabbit looks up with only the top of the rabbits shoulders showing suggesting an ariel view.

Whilst drawing these rabbits i got bored.... none of them i particularly like or i thought where successful! I started to draw them in different ways, some clean lines, some more sketchy, others with crazed expressions. They all, weren't working. I even over layered one with a circle print i did, this instantly told me that i needed to draw the rabbit differently as the outcome was not good. 

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After drawing all these rabbits, I realised i didn't like the outcomes I was producing. I then decided to draw a more realistic rabbit, this instantly worked. The more realistic rabbit had more expression looking lost, venerable. A white rabbit looking out of the hole representing the patient hiding from the wolf/ nurse.