Trying to collect taxes from the warlike Piggy-Wiggy tribe is a lousy job, but somebody's gotta do it.
pignlizard.jpg - 2004-05-15
This is probably more effective if you imagine him saying, in a high ratty voice, "The plague! I'll give you the plaaaaague!" Ahem. Still playing with this pastel-and-linework style--this is a very silly little piece, done mostly to work out a compromise between size of image and size of paper grain to get a nice texture even when shrunk down to web size (having hopefully learned from my last mistake.) The plaaague!
plaguefairy.jpg - 2002-09-28
Platypus was dismayed to discover that instead of an egg, it had evidentally laid the Sun. (I was in a "Hey, let's do something Really Really Stylized!" mood...)
platysun.jpg - 2004-11-13
Farmer Snoggle just couldn't figure it out. The salesman had said that the Plow Potato could clear as much land as a team of oxen, but once he had it in harness, it just laid there. Not even dangling a stick of butter in front of it seemed to have any effect, and he was starting to worry that maybe the salesman hadn't been entirely honest with him.
plowpotato.jpg - 2004-05-16
Every now and then, I get this urge to paint something just to do one element of it. Like the checkerboard tile. Not that I enjoy painting tile all that much, but I wanted to have painted it, just to get it out of my system. Or...err...something.
polarcourt.jpg - 2004-06-02
The other mice secretly thought that Roger's poncho made him look like a cheap lampshade, but even they had to admit that the live chicken was a truly stylish accessory.
ponchochicken.jpg - 2004-09-19
You know, I've never yet seen a Brazilian porcupine anthro, and given how weird the little things are--prehensile spiked tails, quills covering their faces--it's a lack I felt I had to remedy, as I was mucking about with more black and white stuff. Porcupines of the world, unite!
porcupinea.jpg - 2003-02-11
This was a quick doodle that turned into a happy accident--I had it all nicely cel-colored and shaded with chalk for texture, when I turned off the cel-color and found that I liked the plain chalk much better. I was just kinda thinking about if Puss-in-Boots ever got tired of wearing boots and tried to become a regular cat again. (Hey, it's late...)
pussinbootsretires.jpg - 2002-09-27
More of Ursula's Adventures In Cute! Hmm, I seem to have a thing for cute, shocked animals being cursed at by small, angry animals. How weird.
rabbitcrow.jpg - 2004-04-04
While I work on Conspiracy of Mammals, occasionally something shows up that's comicky, but unrelated, which I've been labelling "Random Mammal Interludes." This was one of those...I was thinking about angsty goth art, following a recent discussion, so I packed as many weird little cliches in as I could, and out came a weird little albino gothbat.
randominterlude.jpg - 2002-08-12
Never one to let an idea die gracefully, I wound up doodling the gothbat again. I realize that I'm probably the only person who will find this amusing, but at last I can repay a little of my debt to society incurred by writing really, really bad poetry during my teenage years. (And hey, she's kinda cute.)
randominterlude2.jpg - 2002-08-14
Rather than her usual upbeat and cheery self, today a pensive Gothbat mourns the loss of a close friend. (God, I love these things. Within every cynic, there's a Romantic poet waiting to get out.)
randominterlude3.jpg - 2002-08-16
It's a bad habit of mine, but I can only do single gags for so long--I eventually start carrying mini-plots over, such as in this case, where the death of Herbie the Goldfish gave rise to all kinds of possible ramifications. (I have a feeling this is less of something Gothbat would do, and more something she'd daydream about, but hey, it's my fantasy world and I'm under no such limitations.)
randominterlude4.jpg - 2002-08-19
Gothbat, Reanimator, part two! (I'm not sure if I feel sorrier for Gothbat, or for Herbie.)
randominterlude5.jpg - 2002-08-24
Back by popular demand...well, okay, mostly just my mother's demands...more Gothbat! (I did this one solely in order to do the cow poster on the wall. I'm a weak, weak person.)
randominterlude6.jpg - 2003-02-17
A ringtailed something or other and her bird of paradise (or other). Another random Painter doodle, with a little color washed in over the linework for kicks.
randomringtail.jpg - 2003-02-08
A quick and silly doodle of one of the constant marauders at my birdfeeder.
rattatosk.jpg - 2004-03-16
This is actually full-size--it's on a 5 x 5 canvas I had lying around. Trying to do some small originals for cons, and one thing led to another...
redprintfrog.jpg - 2004-04-23
Wild stylistic departures are fun! Inspired by some of the cute and kitschy art of Laurel Burch, a rat in acrylic and ink.
redrat2.jpg - 2004-08-17
Finally tried out the textured instead of smooth clayboard. It's a lot better for watercolor--you can, for example, get a gradient--but the texture does interfere with the capacity for very fine detail. Still, kinda neat stuff.
romanmouse.jpg - 2004-09-03
Quick little doodle of that mighty marauder of the paleolithic, bane of fish, bugs, rodents, and very very small mammoths--the fearsome Sabertoothed Toad.
sabertoad.jpg - 2003-02-22
A coupla sable antelopes from the zoo here...acrylic, 24 x 36. Languished unfinished in my studio for months, being used as a coat rack, until I needed an Xmas present for someone who once expressed interest in it, and finally finished it (nowhere near Christmas, mind you...)
sables.jpg - 2004-01-04
Another quick and silly piece for Anthrocon. I just have this thing for sock puppets, ya know?
seasock.jpg - 2004-06-29
Some of us just aren't cut out for the environment we're born into....
serpentfloat.jpg - 2004-12-07
Inspired by Michel Gagne's weird rabbits, I was playing around with a mutant Siamese, evolution, and the hypothetical planet Snog.
siamesething.jpg - 2002-12-10
Rock on, little brown skunk!
skunkrock.jpg - 2003-10-19
"The Slug-Charmer" Okay, when I have a very short period of time before an art show, I start to get a little odd...
slugcharmer.jpg - 2004-07-25
Ah, the agony and ecstasy of young love 'mongst the gastropods...
sluglove2.jpg - 2004-08-22
The renowned lizard warriors of Etrajen are best known for their breeding of the hardy desert slug, a fearsome battle gastropod which can go without water for up to fifteen minutes at a stretch.
slugrider.jpg - 2004-05-10
Down with Charismatic Vertebrate totems!
slugtotem.jpg - 2004-02-28