Showing posts with label animals. Show all posts
Showing posts with label animals. Show all posts

Thursday, October 18, 2007

apple bear

By request, here is the bear and the apple tree. Yep, bears just LOVE apples. Can't get enough of 'em! They are known to accost campers and break into their tents looking for a good Fuji. A good rule when suddenly encountering a bear is... drop your apples and run.

Thank you for visiting this edition of Wild Kingdom.

so... any more animals you are dying to see?

Friday, October 12, 2007

porcupine on a pumpkin

Porcupine on a pumpkin

Yep... it sure SOUNDS like diner talk, but it's NOT! If you happen to order a pig in a blanket and the waiter brings you a porcupine on a pumpkin... change restaurants.

Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Pig and blankets

I had a request to see the pig with the pancakes. "Pig in a blanket" is more "diner lingo" (see previous post) for a sausage link wrapped in a pancake. Good stuff! We had pancakes Sunday. I like to get a leftover pancake out of the fridge and put grape jelly on it for a snack. Or... two leftover pancakes with peanut butter & jelly is also reeeeeally good. Unfortunately there were no leftovers. As the pancakes sat out on the stove, I would pick one up and munch on it whenever I walked by... and soon there were no more pancakes.

Shuckydarn!

Thursday, October 04, 2007

le COW

Well, well, well... it seems that some of my 8 visitors don't know what a cow looks like. Now THIS... is a COW. Or at least this is how MY cows look. They are always white with black splotches... and have hooves. Study this cow for the next week and then see if you can distinguish it from a sock monkey. End of lesson. I sure hope you were taking notes here... a pop quiz can happen at any time!

This cow was one of the 100 animals that I did recently for a job. If you poke around here, you can find sketches of all 100. If you happen to run across an animal that you would really really like to see the finished version of, just let me know and I will post it.

OK, class dismissed. Please, no running on the way to the lunch room.

Thankyouverymuch.

Friday, August 10, 2007

animal 100!

Animal #100... a zebra with a balloon! A bit anticlimactic, eh? Actually, on the page the zebra appears on, I have to draw 100 balloons. Oh, joy. I just couldn't face that. I am thinking I will make a group of 5 balloons, and then copy and paste them around till I have 100. Photoshop to the rescue.

I actually just got the sketches back and see that there are quite a few changes on them. Mostly larger balloons for the text to go in and things like that. Out of 100 spots, you have to expect they will want to make changes on some of them. That's just how it goes.

Since I switched to the new Blogger recently, I now have the option of Labels. If you go to the sidebar and click on ANIMALS, you can see ALL 100 animals on the same page. Cool beans!

Thursday, August 09, 2007

animals 96-99

We are almost done! Here is a chipmunk putting beans in an egg carton. I have to draw an egg carton from time to time. I do't like to draw egg cartons. I always have to go find one and look at it. Next we have a worm on a clock and a seal clapping. I like the excited hedgehog the best of these.

Wednesday, August 08, 2007

animals 92-95

Today we have a counting octopus, a llama with a party horn, a roaring lion and lizard that collects candles. I have a collection too. For some odd reason, when I eat an ice cream bar on a stick, I lick off the stick... really good... (lick, lick, suck, suck, lick, lick) and lay the stick down. I was cleaning up the top of my desk recently and found I had two fist sized bundles of little wooden sticks. Wonder what I can build with them?

Tuesday, August 07, 2007

animals 87-91


We are breaking into the 90s today. How exciting! 90 animals that is. Temperature wise, it is going to hit 100 degrees today WITH humidity. Ah... summer.

Can you stand on one foot with flamingo for 87 seconds? Give it a try. Or you can do math problems with spider, or try on hats with horse or check out the calendar with crocodile. And then there is bee. Bee is busy (bees are always busy, right?) buzzing around 9 flowers with 10 petals each.

Tune in tomorrow for the next exciting instalment... same bat time... same bat channel...

Monday, August 06, 2007

animals 83-86

Yep, I'm still posting new animals every day! But I can see the light at the end of the tunnel!

Today we have an inch worm, a marching dog, a rhino... and Marty Feldman. Wait... that's not Marty, that's chameleon licking a sucker. My bad.

Saturday, August 04, 2007

animals 78-82


Did you know that moles love mini-marshmallows? Did you know that owls use the US postal service to mail their letters or that walruses whistle while washing? Did you know that Koalas like frosting on their cup cakes? Well... now you do. And the bear with sissors?... don't ask....

Friday, August 03, 2007

animals 74-77

So, for some reason I hit a block on drawing a rabbit. I drew it over and over but couldn't quite get a rabbit I really liked. At some point I always decide to just go with what I've got. But then... the next animal was a Yak with a yo-yo. I looked up Yaks in my big book of animals, and this is the first thing that popped outta my pencil. And I liked it. Bingo! I LIKE when that happens. The next guy is a platypus. Does it look like a platypus? Again, I don't see any of these flattened on the highway so I don't have any first hand experience with them. The toucan has a big jar of marbles. Don't ask me why. It's obviously a toucan thing.

Thursday, August 02, 2007

animals 69-73


Another day.. another batch of animals. Today we have one weasel clapping, one shark with cookies, one eagle with tape measure, a bunch of ants, a mouse tossing jellybeans and a partridge in a a pear tree. Just kidding about the partridge.

Does anyone ever draw a mouse and NOT think of Mickey?

M-I-C... see you real soon
K-E-Y... why, because we LIKE you!

M-O-U-S-Eeeeeee

Wednesday, August 01, 2007

animals 65-68

Hey, I just found out how I can change the post date on these things. Now I can do them ahead and pop them in the freezer for when I need them. Cool! Now I don't have to write these pitiful comments early in the morning before my brain is on. Woo Hoo!

Today we have a Puffin... and the Puffin is picking soccer balls out of the soccer ball field. Yea, I didn't know they grew in fields either. That is why being an illustrator is such a great thing. You learn all kinds of amazing facts along the way! Like... did you know that if you are wearing a jersey with the number 66 on it and you did a handstand, it would look like a 99? Isn't THAT amazing? Gorilla taught me that trick.

We also have swan sweetly singing as she swings. Say THAT fast. Iguana is trying to figure out how many 10s and 1s there are in 68 by using dimes and pennies. Heck, I didn't know iguanas had bank accounts. Now don't you feel smarter today?

Have a good day now. And hey... let's be careful out there!

Tuesday, July 31, 2007

animals 61-64

Today's cast is an otter, a chicken, a frog and a Guinea pig.

Monday, July 30, 2007

animals 57-60


It's Monday and sloth is still asleep. Had a hard weekend. Rat and salamander are doing their things. Caterpillar was HARD! Just TOO many feet to draw... and each foot has a shoe on it. I like my caterpillars barefooted.

Sunday, July 29, 2007

animals 53-56

If you are puzzled, what we have here is a badger on a bike, a cat in a boat, an aardvark tossing a bean bag and a hummingbird. How random can you get? :o)

Saturday, July 28, 2007

animals 49-52

Today we have a crab with number cubes, a hopping kangaroo, a dolphin with party hats, and a panther with a deck of cards. Oh, you can click on any of these animal posts to see them a little larger. It's good exercise for your finger.

Friday, July 27, 2007

animals 45-48

Almost halfway there! In case you don't recognize these guys, we have for your viewing pleasure today an opossum, centipede, moose and penguin. Moose and penguin doesn't sound right to me. It should be moose and skwerr-al. That is what is imprinted in my brain from watching too much Rocky and Bullwinkle as a kid.

Thursday, July 26, 2007

animals 41-44

Today we have a wombat. Wombat? This is the first wombat I have ever been asked to draw. I had to look it up. I doubt that anyone would recognize this as a wombat. It appears to be some kind of Australian groundhog. I hope you can recognize the rooster, dragonfly and goat.

Wednesday, July 25, 2007

animals 37-40

For those inquiring minds out there.... the kids are to stomp their foot 37 times with donkey. Armadillo used 38 buttons to make the number. Elephant wants to collect 100 peanuts. She has 39... how many more does she need? Chimp counts to 40 by 5's on his hand prints.

Are you happy now? eh?

I certainly hope so... :o)