Studies of grizzly bears in preparation for the Vital Ground illustration I did last month. Plus, polar bears warm-up gestures.
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Sketches from the last few months. Polar bears adult and cubs, baby giraffe, and a stylized cat.
More quick gesture sketches from the last few months. Polar bears, grizzly bears, and wolves.
Polar bear gesture sketches. Galloping, standing, and defensive postures.
Studies of full grown grizzly bears and polar bears (plus one cute polar cub) done throughout December and January.
Today’s warm-up sketches are of orphaned polar bear cub Siku, born last month at the Danish Scandinavian Wildlife Park. Such a cutie! Here’s the video that inspired the sketches: In Last of the Polar Bear news… I scanned a bunch of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Warm up sketches of polar bears. The bears here range in age from a week to six months. Instead of my standard mechanical pencil, I decided to try a new technique: sketching with blue line pencil, and finishing with Tombow[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
More studies of red foxes and arctic foxes, referenced from videos. The first page looks at motion and posture, while the second page focuses on muzzles.
Studies of Arctic foxes and red foxes. It’s a lot easier to find video reference of red foxes than it is arctic foxes, probably because they’re more abundant and much likelier to occur in areas inhabited by people, so most[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…