My mafia spider illustration was done in Adobe Illustrator (surprise, surprise). The assignment was to make a character illustration out of a spider, and the idea for it came out of a conversation with some friends - we were joking about mafia stories at the time. And since spiders aren't generally viewed as pleasant creatures, and the mafia isn't necessarily a pleasant group of people, I thought it fit. The colors - black, gray, and red - were chosen because they were both traditional mafia colors and common colors of spiders.
The main problem I had with the illustration was the spider's pose. At first, I had two of his "hands" resting on a couple of guns sitting on the desk, but that looked a little awkward and had no real focus to it. This was solved by making the spider hold up one of the guns and point it at the viewer, which both gave an actual focal point to the illustration and gave it more of a mafia feel.
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