Zoo Sketches

Went sketching at the zoo this weekend with Carrie Liao, Alice Herring, and Le Tang. Here are a few pages of doodles (again I touched some of these up with digital color).

Gerenuks are some of my favorite animals to draw:

The sleeping lioness and the creeper gerenuk. One of the gerenuks was spying on its pen mates from behind some rocks:

Normal giraffes, chubby giraffes...:

And a page of zebras:

Some of you guys have asked what pens I like to use for sketching. My current fave is the Pentel Sign Pen with a Brush Tip:

 

I also like using Sakura gel pens, and the Pentel Pocket Brush for looser sketching/adding black fills, etc.:

 And last but not least, this week's drawing challenge topic is Obsessive Pokémon!

Fennec Foxes

Greetings friends and fellow artists. Here are some after-work doodles of Fennec Foxes. These sprightly, gremlin-eared creatures are desert-dwelling foxes that are sometimes kept as pets. Fortunately for me, many of their keepers (like most tech-savvy pet owners) have put plenty of footage of these little guys up on youtube.





Real-life foxes



And my sketches, done in Flash CS3.