Merry Fishmas!

Oops, 5 weeks with no posts. For the holiday season, a Christmas wrasse and a reindeer wrasse. I've seen Christmas wrasses in Hawaii; the other is actually a juvenile, the adults don't look as cool. Gouache on a piece of my precious blue paper.

Spam Inspiration

While emptying the spam folder, I noticed that one had the subject"Dapper Two-piece". I thought it was kind of funny, and later made this doodle.

"I say, old bean, my head is rather too big for my body."

Mini in shoes

I saw a little segment on TV once about a seeing-eye miniature horse. It wore little tennis shoes to protect its hooves. Years later, I draw this!

Yo quiero pan de muerto

Happy Day of the Dead! La Catrina, the owl monkey skeleton, would like a sugar skull. Had to upload a tiny version for now, stupid picture loader thing.

This is Halloween, this is Halloween!

Happy Halloween everybody! I slaved away over the tablet for this doodle of an undead iguana. Now gimmie some candy!

Excuse me...

I need a shirt like this:

Armor + 9 Bands

A nine-banded armadillo. It's eating ants. Black and white art by me, what do ya know?

Primitive

A pretty artless week for me. All I've got is this doodle of a cave horse. Lots of ideas floating around in my head, I'll try to get something done and posted soon.

Lion, crocodile, comic

Sorry I had to upload it in pieces, the file of the whole picture together was too big I guess.

Everybody knows that crocodiles have to spin around to take bites of food, right? Right?? A quick comic, done with a sepia Micron that I bought but used once. Marvel at how the character designs change in every panel! I don't like trying to come up with hand and arm positions.

Cute 'n fluffy

White lemuroid ringtail possums are too cute! They're so plushy and have a little pink bald tail tip. Awwwww.

Pet peeve

If I hear someone say "li-bary" one more time, this had better be what they're talking about, or books are gonna start flying!

Susu's eyes

Indus River dolphins (AKA susu) are very endangered. They have tiny eyes since they live in murky water. Do they still have this type of eye test? You hold a black plastic spoon-looking thing over an eye and indicate which way the E is pointing with your hand.

I wanted kind of a monochromatic picture; I used blues, greens, and sepia (though I threw in some pink). I don't know how that eye chart is staying up either.

Fox, in cape

I'm like the wittiest person ever! A Cape Fox, wearing a cape! I was going for that pose Dracula does sometimes, with the cape over an arm, over his face. It looks more like a one-armed fox wearing a lumpy scarf. Sketch using watercolor (and imagination....)

Oh my gouache!

I bought some scrapbooking cardstock since it was on sale, to try to see if it would be good for drawing on. I made some gouache doggies and a lobster on it, before I figured that it's too thin for art. Behold the wonders of Havannah Lake!

Mi pintura pequeña

I felt like drawing a mariachi, so I did. Note to self: next time, do research and find reference pictures of mariachi costumes. And of how to hold a guitar. And of what a guitar looks like.

G'day

And this is some kind of siamese cat-colored kangaroo chewing on his scarf. Hey, it's winter in Australia now, isn't it?

My Pub

I've been meaning to update for a few days but haven't had the time. I'm making 2 posts, since I have a hard time figuring out the spacing of stuff when I try to put more than one picture in the same post.

The phrase "squid and whistle" popped into my head the other day. I thought it sounded like the name of an English pub, maybe it is and my brain just remembered it. Anyway, here's my sketch of the whole thing.

What big horns you have!

I saw some Watusi cattle yesterday. Their horns are HUGE! And they were a pretty burgundy color with white speckles. One walked up to me; he had the usual cow expression, but I was scared he was going to poke my eye out!

I should've brought a bigger sketchbook. Once I drew the head I kept running out of room for the body.

Squawk!

Painting with watercolor without a drawing first is haaaard. There are a jillion anatomy errors, but I kinda like this sketchbook picture. It's an Australian griffin; Major Mitchell's cockatoo and quoll (also known as a native cat). Oh I'm so clever.

Yikes stripes

Some sketches of a creature inspired by a koala. I like stripes. Look, it's eating a Twinkie!

"Lesser" in name only

Poor lesser flamingos, they're always ignored. They have cool fluorescent pink legs and maroon stripy beaks; more people should draw them! I think birds look so cute when they puff up and scratch their heads with their feet like cats. Watercolor, based on a sketch I did of a flamingo at the LA Zoo.

Work it, girl

Slender lorises get all the supermodelling jobs...

I'm sorry, Internet, for the overall creepiness of this picture. But they really do have long skinny arms and legs!

Ahh, Iron Bird!

I've always liked Disneyland's old attraction posters, the stylized ones with limited color palettes. This picture was also inspired by travel posters from the 20s and 30s (which I guess might be what inspired Disney artists). I used acrylic on illustration board for the background, then gouache for the bontebok family watching a plane come in.

Wait for me, Bandwagon! *boing*

A mongoose advertises his new favorite movie. I bought a Copic inking pen that doesn't work as well as the tester pen. You have to kind of move slowly and press down hard, while I like working fast and lightly. Oh well.

From sketch to painting

I made a sketch of a half owl/half goat that I titled the Hootenanny. After a bit of redesigning, here she is in watercolor and colored pencil. I know goats don't really eat cans, but maybe these creatures do.

How to brush a cat

Now it's time for brushpen scribbles of my cat washing himself, chubby kitty legs, a lion with a doorag, and some sort of bunny creature.

I never saw a purple shark...

Here's the deal: sharks continue to lose their teeth through their entire life, with rows of new ones waiting to roll out. So I thought that the Shark Toothfairy would have a rough job. Watercolor sketch; those are supposed to be shark teeth dropping out the bottom of the bag.

Pencil, meet Paper

I've been trying to pick up a pencil and move it around on paper every day. I think I use sketching differently than many other people. I like to try out weird new styles and experiment. Most of my doodles aren't very detailed or finished, but sometimes that kind of drawing is more satisfying than one that you spend a lot of time on. Here's a strange mullet-y guy, an off-balance swimsuit lady (drawn with my favorite purple pencil), confused fishy, and dancing gecko.

Hello all you happy taxpayers!

Welcome! Here you'll find my doodles, scribbles, scroodles, and maybe even finished art. Have fun looking around, but no flash pictures please.