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.

Cuteness, defined

The majority of my sketches fall into three categories. In this post, I show some examples of the first thing: overtly cute animals. I went through various sketchbooks and found these images as examples. Looking at them all together, it seems like to me, cute involves something with a big head, most likely with its mouth open, and maybe an arm raised or a hand on its chin. Big eyes are not a necessity, but they do help. Fuzzy is good, as are small legs and feet.

Clockwise from the top, I've drawn a tarantula (who says mammals are the only cute animals?), a confused bilby, a puppy, a kitten with bat wings for ears, a goose, and a kangaroo.

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?