Itsy Bitsy Mammals

A cinnamon bear (the black bear variety, not the red candy) examines a giant Jell-O cube. With a fig medal!

This is a female red kangaroo, which are blue, not red. She's enjoying some orange juice while wearing a dapper vest.

A tapir with a croissant. I bet you can guess why I gave her a watermelon shirt.

This picture didn't quite work. It's an arctic fox, though it doesn't look much like one.

A long-eared hedgehog is going to have some gummy worms.

Two Canines with No Skin

I decided to draw skulls in my new brown sketchbook. I thought it would be fun to do white highlights and darker shadows and keep it mostly the browny paper color. These are the skulls of a coyote and a red fox. I used my trusty purple pencil and a few colors of watercolor pencil. The paper got a little wrinkly from the washes but I do like the results overall.

Fabled art

This was meant to be a color study for a more realistic painting of the Aesop's fable about the fox and the crane, but I kind of like it this way. I wish I had made the crane more stylized too. The fox looks a bit like it's barfing in the second picture. The fable goes: the fox invited the crane over for dinner. It served some soup in a flat dish, and the crane couldn't eat any. The next day the crane invites the fox over, and serves soup in a long vase, so the fox can't get any. The lesson is, don't eat soup with anyone who has a different shaped mouth than you, I guess.





Here is a Japanese snow monkey with an offering of cookies, from a suggestion. I liked the little bear so I included it too.

Paint it black

Wow, it's weird to write "08"! The first paintings of the new year. I got a black sketchbook. Boy, I'm out of practice with gouache. Oh well, now I can make many a painting in this book. Here we have Kitsumi playing Guitar Hero, and the littlest fat dragon ever riding on a non-scientifically accurate flying gurnard. Didn't feel like trying to draw with white pencil or anything, so straight to paint it was!

Thanks for the presents!

Oodle-doodle!

All I've been doing lately are crazy little sketches. I need a muse or something. First up are a few pencil drawings. I guess the sulking animal is a bunny. With the fox, I was trying for a different style (for me, at least). I don't know what that is riding the boar, but it's having fun.

I had fun with this picture in red pen. It's Alice and the March Hare; he's in a very weird position (so is she, now that I think about it), but I like the sketchy qualities of it.

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....)