Wild Child's sketch prompt this week was 'The Wizard of Oz'. My choice of character was Toto, played by a Cairn Terrier in the 1939 movie.
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Sketch Club: Fairytale
This week's prompt was 'fairytale'. I was inspired by the birth of my nephew and drew a scene from Thumbelina.
Sketch Club: Road Trip
Wild Child has recently started a weekly Sketch Club with a prompt. This week's was 'Road Trip'. I had a lot of fun doing research and creating this little image of a family on the Oregon Trail.
Gorilla Sketches
A colleague took a video of some gorillas while visiting his local zoo, and I asked if I could sketch from it. The interactions between the gorillas were fascinating to study.
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This character jumped out while I doodled today. I'm not sure who she is or what she's holding, but she seems a bit worried about it.
Wild Life Drawing – Wolf Pups
On Saturday I joined an online drawing class from Wild Life Drawing featuring five-week-old wolf-dog pups from Watermill Wolves. They were alternately incredibly active or completely asleep.
Lots of Liffeys
Liffey was the Irish Setter my family owned while I was growing up. She was a wonderful companion, if a little odd at times. I must have doodled these caricatures of her at some point last year, but I'd forgotten about them until now.
Life Drawing, 31st December
I made it along to some of the epic eight-hour life drawing marathon organised by Deryck Henley on New Year's Eve. It was great to do some drawing from (digital) life - it had been a few months, and I was very rusty. These poses were modelled by Anna and Mariano.
Wild Life Drawing – Wolves
Wild Life Drawing hosts live drawing sessions with animals in the UK. I sadly haven't ever been able to go to any of their in-person classes, but I have now attended online! Last week I joined in a Zoom drawing class featuring three wolf-dogs from Watermill Wolves. A...