Friday Sketchdump #50 (christmas edition)
Some wondered why I didn't post a Sketchdump for over a month. The answer is simple: I had tons of assignments to do in december, had to get christmas presents + do a ton of christmas cards, so not much time for sketching.
This is already the #50, quite alot to me.. I really made an improvement since I started, but there's still much left to learn.
This is a funny meme where you have to draw expressions for (imprecise) words
This was an earlier Idea for a christmas card, but I went for something else as I basically did this last year already
Angry Ferret. (ignore the other hand)
Once again some Thylacines
Sketch for FPS
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Cel
Did this Sketch at EF, and now trying to make a cel from it 
As it takes forever I thought I'll just show some progress
Sketch
Cel, needs some color
Tyler Thylacine
Friday already.. so here's the finished picture I promised.
It's more or less a character sheet for a tasmanian tiger character, may be turned into a costume sometime.
Friday Sketchdump #24
Here we go!
I drew most of these in Starbucks, where I hoped to meet some nice girls, but instead there were only mothers with their crying babys.
Ferret! I think I cleaned this sketch up 3 times. still some errors which I'm too lazy to fix. (Well maybe later.. they're fatal)
Seafood.
A quick and stylized drawing of a tasmanian tiger.
Another ferret sketch.
fim.
Baked Tasmanian Tiger
I finally finished the Thylacine Sculpture I started before I went to Australia.. unfortunately he lost a leg in the oven for whatever reason.
After fixing that with a bit of glue he looked like this:
Next step is going over it with sandpaper and then painting with acrylics.
Friday Sketchdump #17
Not much this week, but luckily I still have some sketches I did earlier on my HDD.
Sorry for the lack of variety of expressions and poses.
Space Ferret I did while inspired by this NASA site.
Reaaally quick old sketch I still like.
Tyler Thylacine!
Quoll
drew this in a pub
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Australia Sketchdump
Finally, here are some of the sketches I did in Australia:
Dragon, drawn in the plane (that's why the lines are shakey)
Jumping Kangaroo
Sculpey Thylacine
So this is what I'm working on for a week already, a Tasmanian Tiger Sculpture!
It takes very long because I never sculpted before, but Super Sculpey is awesome stuff and it's really fun to work with it!
This is what it looks like at the Moment, I'd say it's about 70% done.
click "continue reading" for some earlier photos.
Friday Sketchdump #12
Happy new year everyone!
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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Thylacines
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
Friday Sketchdump #3
A little belated, but here are some of the few sketches I did this week.
For the first time I drew some birds after reading a the "How to draw Cartoons for Comic Strips" book from Christopher Hart. I'll probably try to get one of his other books, "How to draw cartoon animals" too, because it looks good. It's a shame he only writes really crappy books about drawing manga now.
Some thylacine sketches
Birds!
More Birds! Including Chris Hart influence.
A quick ferret I'm not really satisfied with, also the pose isn't convincing. He is supposed to be standing on the ground and looking up, with the viewer looking at the ground.
