For practice, I’ve recreated this gator from a business card I got at a convention.
![](https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/jquintero-eportfolio/files/2023/03/testcard-01-1024x585.png)
This was found for merchandise of an artist selling pins of these reptilian beasts. With this practice I decided to try something like it, but obviously different.
Which came out to this:
![](https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/jquintero-eportfolio/files/2023/03/callingcardpre-01-585x1024.png)
The composition is much simpler than the practiced one, but I hope to still give it character. I thought of so many things, like having the Point of View be in a restaurant booth with the ghost on the other end excited. I also thought of it being in the soup before that as well, and a few others. But for the first time, I think being simple will help me complete it.