Pet Prints on Parade Process Post

I was happy to make these prints for this year's 21st Annual Beggin' Pet Parade, part of the pre-Mardi Gras festivities in Soulard, and "The Guinness Record holder for the largest parade of costumed animals".

Here's a bunch of sketches and stuff that piled up on my desk like a lot of puppies. Early ideas:

Here was the first round of sketches. "Flowchart", "Gang" and "Hot Rod":

We ended up going with the Hot Rod/Dog kinda idea:

Made some tweaks to the final sketch, thanks to Greg S. and fine folks at Purina, and we were just about there:

Final Drawing:

Ink color tests:

Final vector art:

Separations on acetate:

3 colors (indigo, metallic silver, fluorescent pink) down:

And the 4th (yellow):

Thanks everyone! Hope to see you at the parade!. We're really gonna try and get our scoodle into that jester's outfit, even if he hates it.