A Space Ferret from outer Space!

Thylacine sketches, I actually forgot to post them last week.

practiced drawing more "normal" expressions.

This is an exercise from "Animators survival Kit"

Toony Sinonyx and a more abstract one.

A so-called Cynognathus

Drew this expression from memory, it's an expression John K used in the Video he did for the Al Yankovic song.

Electric Ray + Nessie or something..

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This was a Mascot I made for a contest of the Ni-Limits company. Apparently I was the only one who submitted a valid entry, so they made a new deadline in 7 months.

"What the hell?" - pose from a Tex Avery Short

Practice on Line of Action, anatomy is wrong but at least the pose looks not that bad imho.

More tries on exaggeration.. this is not really convincing though.

A sketch I did while brainstorming for the Mascot contest. He's now welcoming visitors here.

A Thylacine sketch from an openCanvas Session, colored by a friend. She did a nice job on the outlines and coloring, and I did a poor on the sketch

Dragon Sketch + a weird fox

Tried to make a kangaroo with more kangaroo-like anatomy

That's how it looks like when I don't clean up a sketch.

Another half-finished thylacine sketch.

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Drawn for the FPS Artjam.

Another FPS Artwork from an oC session yesterday

Another Brer Rabbit.. please excuse the unoriginal pose and expression, I didn't have any refs and had no idea how his anatomy looks.. I'll draw better pictures of him soon

Sketching!!

The right one was just some circles and random lines, and something very WarnerBrother-ish came out.. weird..

Okay, this one is very old, at least 6 months.. just digged this out, it's an unfinished raccoon looking for food.

6885 push-ups left to do

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My first attempt to draw Brer Rabbit. Thanks again for the model sheets, Henrieke!
He's a great character, and it's a shame that he never appears in german Disney Magazines

A very rough ferret sketch

Otter. I like how this one came out, even though the pose is anything but original.

An Ermine. The black tip is missing, though.

Various Fineliner sketches, including Thylacine, banded Palm Civet, Kangaroo, Ferret

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Thylacine

I just finished reading this scientific report about Thylacines, which I actually only got because there were alot of photos and illustrations in there I wanted to use as reference. But now I'm really interrested in Thylacines, so I dedicate a post to them.

Thylacines, also referred to as Tasmanian Tiger or Tasmanian Wolf aren't - as the name would suggest - Canids or Felines. They are actually Marsupials, with the closest still existing relative being the Tasmanian Devil.

I have collected quite much reference pictures and photos of Thylacines for drawing purposes here, but also if you're not trying to draw them you might be interested in them as there are a few rare ones included.

I've drawn alot of Thylacines until now, so here they are (in chronological order, including mostly older artworks):

Thylacine sketches

first try on "realistic" anatomy

A more toony attempt

Also toony, inspired by the mascot of this site

For completeness, I repost this one.

Also this one.

quick Thylacine Sketch in openCanvas

I made this one with a 0.05mm fineliner.. sketch can be seen here

This is a sketch of a Thylacinus potens, using this skeleton as reference. Notice the shorter legs and the smaller head compared to a Thylacinus cynocephalus

Finally, for more information about thylacines, I recommend the following sites:

http://www.tasmanian-tiger.com

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thylacine

Photographs and movies of the Thylacine

Seven short movies of the Thylacine

I also have been to a Comic Meeting yesterday, which was awesome! I even met an artist who worked for disney 15 years ago, and he gave me some really useful tips.. and told me my hands suck, but.. yes.. they actually do, but practicing hands is boring. But he explained me how imporant hands are for the whole expression, so I guess I'll end up drawing alot of hands next week.

Screwball Squirrel! My first attempt to draw him, yet there are many things that went wrong.

A more abstract Kangaroo in oC.

Otter

grumpy Fox

First attempt on a character by John K.

Second attempt, drawn at the Comic meeting.

A wacky lemur I drew at the meeting after someone asked me to draw something really weird.

Very quick dynamic pose sketch.

Drawn in starbucks. They played no Jazz today, sadly.

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More exaggeration, credits for the left character go to Gerald.

Result: