bat in flight

dorsal view of a fruit-eating bat, or flying fox

snarling tiger

ducks

A few weeks ago I watched a documentary on ducks, and did some sketching. The main feature was Wood Ducks, very pretty with their vivid feathers but I was only using a black ink pen.

I thought this walking duck was a female mallard but it's an American Black Duck.

Green-Winged Teal in breeding plumage with its feathers ruffled.

This one I sketched just to get the frontal view of the head, with its distinctive bulgy cheeks!

Quack!

I feel I must make an explanation for the grey backgrounds. Since setting up my new office I have not yet bought a scanner and resorted to photographing the drawings. It's difficult to get the light even. Perhaps I will build a lightbox...

donkey

Donkeys on the mind.

duckling

baby wood duck

dik dik

I believe this little antelope with the funny tuft of hair on its head is called the dik-dik. Sketched at a museum.

uganda kob

ballpoint pen sketch of a kob making great big leaps over the ground

Sable Antelope

wild goat

sketched from a stuffed specimen at a musem

greater kudu

sketched from a museum specimen, at the Smithsonian

grasshopper

I don't often draw insects, but here's one

boxer puppy