Online Artist Gallery Holiday Spotlight

"The Christmas Motorcycle Express" Mixed Media piece by Zibonai Bonilla an Intermediate Artist from our Online Gallery.

Hi my name is Zibonai Bonilla. I am currently a second year student at American Academy of Art of Chicago. My major is digital illustration. I work with other medias including graphite, oil pastel and color pencil.

This illustration was a project given to us in the second term of my sophomore year in the academy. The project was to recreate a cover for a catalog. The theme for the catalog given to me was "Christmas Express". After many thumbnails and countless sketches I came up with Santa on a fast riding motorcycle and with his elf helpers. The medium for this piece is traditional and hand drawn.The mediums range from pencil, color pencil, marker and ink pens. The general feel to this piece was to create something magical, humorous and honestly cool. Santa is always seen as a jolly old man with an almost child like innocent character. For this art piece I tried to portray Santa as someone who is not only jolly but could also be cool.