day one-hundred-and-forty-four - black rhinoceros

grrr, i accidentally deleted my blog post from yesterday and don't think i can get it back. here's a summary: yes i've drawn rhinos before but i THINK they were both white and this guy's black:

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plus rhinos are cute and lovely so i'll draw as many of them as i want! (hopefully i only want to draw three because four or more would be a bit much)

xj

day one-hundred-and-forty-two - blue jay

man blue jays have a tasty scientific name

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mmm cristata

also 'cyanocitta' sounds like cyano-critter. superAPT! SPAPT!

on the one hand i'm annoyed at the streaky scanner, but on the other it did save me from colouring in my picture. bonus!

well i'm certainly excitable today - maybe because blue jays are essentially blue cardinals. oh man i am definitely going to draw a power rangers-esque gang of birds...

xj

day one-hundred-and-thirty-six - amazon horned frog

hi

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bye!

xj

day one-hundred-and-thirty-three - bactrian camel

meet mr bactrian camel:

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i don't know why he looks so weird, but he's kind of cute so i don't mind.

camel faces are almost as cool as llama faces, which are almost as cool as vicuña faces (just so you know, other animals with cool faces include sloths, malayan tapirs, galahs and gibbons)

woah boring. ok g'night.
xj

day one-hundred-and-thirty - gorillaz

what can i say about gorillas?

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well a picture says a thousand words so if you want more than a thou you can write them yourself...

xj

day one-hundred-and-twenty-nine - sheep & cow

to spice up part three of the 'drawing from ceramic milk jugs i saw in frankie magazine' series i have decided to test myself - for drawing an animal a day is not enough of a challenge! i also challenged myself to come up with the worst animal puns imaginable (punimals...). the winner?

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yes! terrible enough?

other contenders follow:
- cow are ewe?
- not baaaa-d

- cow's it going?
- sheeps good (only work in south australia)

- nice to meat you (doesn't really work)
- nice to eat you (really doesn't work as they are both vego)

if you have any other suggestions, i'd be happy to read them! (i'm talking to you sen)
xj

day one-hundred-and-twenty-eight - cane toad

i feel kind of bad for drawing such an enemy of our country, but maybe i drew it so i could burn it later like an effigy? actually have we tried that australia?

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i love sketches (you may have noticed) - probably at least partly due to my laziness. i particularly like this one because often i ruin pictures with excessive shading and details.

and isn't the threat of mr toad coming to "get ya" hauntingly real. yes. who needs 3D when you have half-formed 2D lines.

don't answer that.
xj

day one-hundred-and-twenty-three - fish fish fish fish fish

"fish fish fish fish
eating fish!"

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"get 'em out like a trout"

oh man i love that mr scruff song, aptly titled 'fish'.

"i expect you'd like to know about frogmen?"
"yeah!"

well you can't. listen to that song and let mr scruff learn ya.

xj