day two-hundred-and-eighty-one - eastern grey kangaroo

what? you're going to boycott my blog if i repeat an animal i've already drawn? well see ya later sucker(s)/no-one.

i was camping last week, and there were many of these kangaroos in the national park we stayed in, so naturally that's what i photographised.

and THUS:

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i like that the second kangaroo is like his shoulder angel. if he wasn't there the main roo might've eaten me just like he ate my friend's sketchbook - for reals. we also saw a dead baby dolphin beached on the shore with its guts all about the place, but i thought this would be a nicer post...

see what i do for you.

xj

day one-hundred-and-sixty-two - eastern grey kangaroo

i'm surprised that i'm australian and it's taken me this long to draw a kangaroo.

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to be honest, i used to be pretty unimpressed with australian animals. i think it was because in other parts of the world kangaroos and platypuses are seen as strange or even made-up creatures - i always thought they weren't any weirder than a skunk or a raccoon, probably because they're the normal animals we see here when we stray from the city.

but i've since changed. mainly because kangaroos ARE weird if you think about them too much... or even if you just go to the australian museum and see this guy:

© jem barratt

incidentally, you should probably also go there if you love puns.

in any case, i went on a bushwalk today and happened across a grey kangaroo with a little joey in its pouch. i felt pretty lucky that i got to see some kangaroos just by going for a walk.

thanks australia - i like you today.

xj