Bilby Time!

Time for bilbies!

Sophisticates

Whoops, haven't updated in a bit. All I have are sketches, so here are a proper bulldog, sailor seal, and hillbilly 'possum.

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.

World's Fastest Dancer

This is another type of sketch I do, animals in weird, anatomically impossible poses. This is supposed to be a cheetah by the way. He likes to boogie.

ETA: I like how one spot seems to have floated off his tail in the frenzy.

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.

Pig ---> Primate

Another doodle, this time of a bald Japanese monkey, sticks in my mind. So does a drawing of a proboscis monkey. The pig has now become a monkey. Tune in next time for the finished line art.

Carousel of Progress

I thought the progression of a picture might be fun. Today, we have a little drawing that inspired a finished picture. This pig showed up on my page of daily doodles. I kind of liked him, and I hadn't done any color in a while so I decided to try to develop it as a painting. Somewhere along the line, he changed into a different animal. Tune in next time to see what!

Out with the old...

Happy 2007! This year I resolve to post more pictures, but only if I get more comments. I drew this fat-tailed dunnart (a marsupial mouse) eating a gummy worm in my new Christmas sketch book, with my new pencil that never needs sharpening. It's cool, it's like a ballpoint pen but with liquid graphite! This is the last picture I made in 2006. Who knows what the new year will bring? How exciting!

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!

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.

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.

Yikes stripes

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

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.