three sheep

border collie

truck

I don't usually draw vehicles but that makes this a challenge. Thought this old-fashioned farmer's pickup was pretty cool-looking.

plants

I really want to get better at drawing plants. Somehow, though I love to just sit and look at them, they're not as much fun to draw.

Maybe because when I draw animals I'm always thinking of the body structure, how they move, the interesting variation of proportions, the living creature. A plant seems such a static thing in comparison. Drawing a plant is more about paying attention to leaf shape and pattern, how the foliage is arrranged and repeats itself. I'm not as good at that- drawing repeating texture on things like, a leopard's coat, used to always get dull and I would rarely finish it off.

So I need more patience and practice to draw plants. These aren't very good- but then I didn't spend much time on them. They're of my dracanea and avocado plants, respectively.

waterbuck

snow leopard

This is another one where I particularly like the look of the artwork in different stages or pieces. Such as the gray shades under the linework:

topi

new vector illustration of an antelope with distinctive coloring (in the right light, the shoulder and thigh patches actually do look purple!)

dairy cow

Just finished this vector illustration

macaw

two sketches of a macaw parrot