day one-hundred-and-ninety-six - przewalski's horse

pronounced sheh-VAL-ski apparently (not pruz-e-wul-skee as i had hoped)

© jem barratt

terrible drawing i know. i do have a knack for never drawing whole animals. i always start the animal in a really inopportune spot on the page. almost as inopportune as using 'inopportune' in that sentence was.
huh?

confusing. anyway, my horse-drawing ability is irrelevant - the important thing is that this guy (and his horsey brethren) is pretty endangered. the good news though, is that they were deemed to be extinct in the wild in 1996 but have since done it like crazy to reach a population number of more than 300.

you can see other IUCN 'red listed' species here.

xj

day fifty-three - harlequin toad

woah cutting it fine!

© jem barratt

i seriously had a good 5 hours to draw and i left it until 11? i'm smart.

i like him though, so who cares? (unlike my yellow posca, which i hate for being empty)

ANYWAY this peruvian fellow made the red list this year. what is it you ask? a secret club? a vip society?

no unfortunately it is the international union for conservation of nature's red list of threatened species. see others species to lament over here. and then stop lamenting and do something! like draw one on a folder divider from work and post it on your blog...

ACTION!
xj