Artwork Collection

ANIMAL-LIKE

ANIMAL-LIKE is a series of conceptual-editorial illustrations depicting the contradicting nature of humanity using the guise of animals. The aim is to start a discussion concerning our inconsistencies as a species in a way that mimics educational materials. This points out the flaws in thinking purely in humans' as superior given that we face so many day-to-day struggles in every life as compared to animals us who have mastered their ways of living.

ANIMALS TRADITIONAL ARTWORK WATERCOLOUR & GOUACHE ILLUSTRATION

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A Diet of Imitation
A Diet of Imitation

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A Diet of Imitation

The common garter snake has a varied diet and often consumes eggs, worms, snails and small birds/mammals. This piece depicts a garter snake reaching to consume the items falling from a chipmunk pinata.

Domesticated Interiors
Domesticated Interiors

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Domesticated Interiors

The Zebra resides in the African Savanna, often experiencing the hot arid winds and grazing on native shrubs and grasses. With this knowledge, this illustration describes the tendency to fill "domesticated" spaces with artificial/ man-made... More

Grocery "Struggles"
Grocery "Struggles"

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Grocery "Struggles"

A maned wolf's diet is incredibly varied and includes a number of different items. Foods like fruit, a main proponent of their diet, is often taken for granted by us. Despite their scarcity in the wild, most fruits are widely available in most... More

Love Song Confusion
Love Song Confusion

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Love Song Confusion

This illustration depicts animals who sing and call to attract a mate, celebrating the diversity of different species and their mating rituals. In showing a myriad of marsh animals displaying this behavior as they surround an unused phonograph,... More

Mechanism Failure
Mechanism Failure

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Mechanism Failure

Like a tortoise's shell, the bicycle helmet acts as a cyclist’s “shell” to protect their heads. This illustration describes this concept by replacing the tortoise's shell with a bicycle helmet. To demonstrate carelessness, the tortoise is depicted... More

Migratory Folly
Migratory Folly

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Migratory Folly

The Greater flamingo will migrate to warmer waters to raise their young. By depicting a pair of flamingoes who denied migration, they are still exhibiting behavior as if they had migrated. Despite being in a snowy lake, long since frozen over, the... More

Resource Guarding
Resource Guarding

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Resource Guarding

A leopard will store it’s meal up in a tree to prevent it being stolen by other predators. This image depicts this instance exactly, but replaces the all main elements with difference visualizations of money. Therefore ascribing the idea that all... More

The Camouflage We Wear
The Camouflage We Wear

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The Camouflage We Wear

Animals born without their natural pattern can be more susceptible to bullying and predation such as fawns displaying piebaldism. The visuals provided here is the fawn trying to blend in to laundry that is adorned with various different wild animal... More

The Symbiotic Relationship Between Pests & People
The Symbiotic Relationship Between Pests & People

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The Symbiotic Relationship Between Pests & People

Urban pests; animal species who seem to thrive in lieu of habitat destruction in man-made environments to the point where they are considered a nuisance. This piece was inspired by the presence of these animals, depicting the many ways in which... More

Wasted Matter
Wasted Matter

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Wasted Matter

Studies have shown that carcasses of large animals greatly impact an ecosystem by sustaining a vast array of species. This spot illustration describes the waste left behind by people and its failure to decompose. This heap of wasted matter shaped... More

Work by

Mira Armstrong

Illustration

“ANIMAL-LIKE is a series of conceptual-editorial illustrations depicting the contradicting nature of humanity using the guise of animals. The aim is to start a discussion concerning our...” [More]