Monkey Monday

Another zoo sketch from last summer.

Monkeys

Just some monkeys from a trip to the zoo earlier this year, with David Scott Smith.

Lion Tamarin

This is from a trip to the zoo back in the spring. These little guys are so cute!

Squirelly

21 Days of Halloween Day 9- Bats and Rats

El-derl-ephant

Down in the dumps

Gone for a bit, but I'm back

Goofy Geese

Hey, What's the deal with henhouses?

Are they dragons or are they cats?

They're a little bit of both. I'm sure this isn't a totally original idea, but it's fun nonetheless.

Roadkill

A bit darker of an entry than you'll normally find here on my blog.

Don't worry, I won't make a habit of it.

H is for Hippopotamus

King

Nothing too inspiring today but I realized that I hadn't posted anything in about a week. I've got a bunch of stuff to put up but have no time to scan and crop so this will have to do for now. Stay tooned...

Standing on the corner watching all the gulls go by

... and some crabs too.

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Do you ever start drawing an anthropomorphized animal, and then decide it's too similar to an existing character, or just too cliche, so you take steps to make it "not" that animal, but then all you're left with is a weird drawing that you really can't explain, and you wouldn't even have to explain it because it's just in your sketchbook, but then you decide to post in on your blog where it kinda begs an explanation?
Oh good. I was starting to think that I was the only one.

Fat Cat

Hey! Whatcha' doin?

Sniff

I really don't have an explanation for this one.

I was on a kick drawing dinos and dragons, and doodled this little dino down on all fours, looking intently at something. So I figured he needed something to be investigating. I can't decide of this little primative mammal is lifting his arm on purpose or if the dino is forcing his nose in against the little guys will.

Wildebeest ala Sanders

I felt like trying to draw something the way Chris Sanders does. If you remember sometime back I got a bit philosophical about his style. I'm sure my analysis was totally inadequate- how can you sum up any artist, much less one as unique as Mr. Sanders, in a blog post? He does a lot of animal characters and two things I always notice about them, even in the rough sketches, are the character's skin, and it's skull. Isn't that strange? The small far apart eyes that he gives them accentuates the cheekbones, as well as the empty space that smaller eyes leave on the face (so many cartoon characters have such large eyes)- extra room for foreheads, nose bridges etc... Check out this lion, and this dragon or even better, this whole mess of creatures. Chris also always puts interesting little wrinkles and folds in the skin also, at least on the face. Anyway, this wildebeest-thing, is a vain attempt, not only to draw like Chris, but also to push beyond my own conventions.