Day 3 (again) of my 4 New Arts a Day

Ahhh, I missed this. Hope you guys missed it too! There's a lot more in store - not only am I getting tons of ideas for stuff, but I'm really gaining confidence in my drawing and painting ability, and that's going to be reflected here more and more in the coming weeks and months.

9b) Dandylions



One of my favorite flowers!

Pen and a bottle of ink, getting used to the needle-point nib, and controlling more complicated forms. I think this is one of the best things I've drawn recently, too bad dandylion season is mostly finished over here.

10b) Toon Skunk



Playing around with cartoony style things. Animal proportions are a bit different from human proportions, which makes things easier and harder in different ways than drawing people. Main reason for doing this was to see if I could, and I really enjoyed the curvy lines this pose allowed me to play with. Much easier than I expected too, I'll probably do more like this - I'm not usually one for cute, and I'm not a fan of the typical "100% human body with animal head and tail" that most anthropomorphic furry art ends up being - but stylized animals are just fun to draw.

11b) Horse Profile



A horse! I have the strange feelings that the legs are too short and skinny, but I'm not sure if that's actually true... It might just be something to do with my posing and very basic shading... definatly have to work on improving my horse-sense.

12) Fishing



Guy in a fishing boat on a lake. Experiment in silhouette, again used the fat permanant marker to lay down the inital sketch... I was going to go back and lay down some better reflections, but I seem to have lost the original paper somewhere.