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The Perros: Cabeza Patata's latest project imagines a world with cool, dressed-up dogs

Keeping themselves busy during isolation in Barcelona, Katie Menzies and Abel Reverter of Cabeza Patata have created a new series of illustrations to lift our spirits.

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Two anthropomorphic dog characters posed against a blue stepped background, one wearing a blue and white sports outfit with orange helmet, the other in lavender and olive cargo trousers with brown dog head visible above

Called The Perros, the 3D artworks explore the studio founders' shared passions: fashion, photography and dogs. Each illustration features a character based on a different breed of dog with a unique style and personality. "The main challenge in creating these characters was to arrive at a point between realistic and graphical animals," Katie tells Creative Boom.

"As the realistic dogs take a human-like form we need to soften and adapt some features such as their hands, body shapes and faces. We imagine that if dogs were to take on human characteristics they would be cool and street, taking up space and being self-assured in their role."

Each dog is dressed in fashionable streetwear clothing to "match their confident, no-nonsense poses," she adds. "Fashion choices are recognisably current, as is the photography style we chose. After creating the digital clothing, we used accessories to further add a unique personality to each character."

"We defined the look and feel, including variation in colour palette and dog breeds, early in the sketching phase to ensure a balanced range in the series. When working in 3D it’s important to define the composition and have clear, strong poses in sketch form before starting to model the shapes of the characters."

Brown dog character wearing round glasses and a burgundy striped jacket against a blue background, from Cabeza Patata's The Perros series
Stylised 3D dog character wearing black-framed glasses, red tracksuit with white stripes and yellow tie against a pink background
Stylised 3D illustration of a dog character wearing oversized red tracksuit, orange tie, glasses and white trainers, sitting against a pink striped background
Two anthropomorphic dogs wearing fashionable streetwear and bucket hats stand back-to-back against a beige background, from Cabeza Patata's The Perros series
Two stylised dogs in fashionable streetwear stand confidently against a purple background; one wears an orange dress with pink tulle and cap, the other wears a navy top with white ribbed trousers and white trainers
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